a demonstration). Approximate date – Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Blaenavon, more than a mile (2400m) in length. Publications Jane Austen's novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Lord Byron's dramatic poem Manfred. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Thomas Moore's poem Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance. Thomas Love Peacock's novel Melincourt. David Ricardo's treatise On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Thomas Rickman's An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture. Walter Scott's anonymous novel Rob Roy. Percy Bysshe Shelley's travelogue History of a Six Weeks' Tour (largely the work of Mary Shelley) and poem Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Births 6 January – James Joseph McCarthy, architect (died 1882) 8 January – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (died 1893) 23 January – John Cassell, publisher and entrepreneur (died 1865) 29 January – John Callcott Horsley, painter (died 1903) 23 February – George Frederic Watts, painter and sculptor (died 1904) 13 April – George Holyoake, secularist and promoter of the cooperative movement (died 1906) 1 June – David Lyall, botanist (died 1895) 30 June – Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (died 1911) 5 July – John Loughborough Pearson, Gothic architect (died 1897) 15 July – John Fowler, civil engineer (died 1898) 1 August – Richard Dadd, painter (died insane 1886) 13 December – Arthur Hill Hassall, physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst (died 1894) Deaths 8 February – Francis Horner, Scottish politician, economist (born 1778) 18 July – Jane Austen, novelist (born 1775) 31 July – Benjamin Hall, Welsh ironmaster and politician (born 1778) 13 October – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (born 1759) 6 November – Princess Charlotte, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales and second in line to the throne (born 1796) 7 December – William Bligh, admiral (born 1754) 27 December – Sir Richard Onslow, 1st Baronet, naval commander (born 1741) 28 December – Charles Burney, classical scholar and book collector (born 1757) See also 1817 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom