George Palmer, biscuit manufacturer (died 1897) 24 January – John Mason Neale, Anglican priest, scholar and hymnwriter (died 1866) 28 January – Alfred Stevens, sculptor (died 1875) 14 February – Emperor Norton, eccentric (died 1880 in the United States) 21 February – George Wilson, chemist (died 1859) 10 March – William Menelaus, mechanical engineer (died 1882) 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer of South Australia (died 1846) 19 April – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, Liberal politician and writer (died 1883) 23 April – James Anthony Froude, religious controversialist and historian (died 1894) 1 May – Lyon Playfair, chemist and Liberal politician (died 1898) 11 June – Alexander Bain, philosopher and educationalist (died 1903) 20 June – Eugenius Birch, civil engineer specialising in seaside pleasure piers (died 1884) 21 June – Richard Wallace, francophile art collector and philanthropist (died 1890) 11 July – William Edward Forster, Liberal politician (died 1886) 22 July – Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (died 1887) 30 July – Emily Brontë, novelist and poet (died 1848) 3 October – Alexander Macmillan, publisher (died 1896) 7 December – John Blackwood, publisher (died 1879) 24 December Eliza Cook, writer, poet and radical campaigner (died 1889) James Prescott Joule, physicist (died 1889) Deaths 6 March – John Gifford, loyalist political writer (born 1758) 24 March – Humphry Repton, garden designer (born 1752) 14 or 16 May – Matthew "Monk" Lewis, Gothic writer (born 1775) 11 August – Robert Carr Brackenbury, Methodist preacher (born 1752) 22 August – Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India (born 1732) 1 September – Robert Calder, admiral (born 1745) 9 September – Seymour Fleming, noblewoman of scandalous reputation, in France (born 1758) 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, wife of George III (born 1744) See also 1818 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom