1899) 28 March Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (died 1891) Roger Fenton, pioneer of photography, early war photographer (died 1869) 24 May – Queen Victoria (died 1901) 5 June – John Couch Adams, astronomer (died 1892) 12 June – Charles Kingsley, novelist (died 1875) 8 July – Leopold McClintock, Irish-born Arctic explorer and admiral (died 1907) 1 August – Richard Dadd, painter (died 1886) 13 August – George Stokes, Irish-born mathematician and physicist (died 1903) 26 August – Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (born at Coburg; died 1861) 5 September – stillborn child to the Duke of Clarence and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (born dead at Calais) 26 September – Edward Watkin, railway manager and politician (died 1901) 22 November – George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, novelist (died 1880) Undated – Baxter Langley, radical political activist (died 1892) Deaths 14 January – John Wolcot, satirist and poet (born 1738) 17 February – Henry Constantine Jennings, collector and gambler (born 1731) 13 March – Charles Wyatt, politician and architect (born 1758) 2 May – Mary Moser, painter (born 1744) 20 July – John Playfair, natural philosopher (born 1748) 25 August – James Watt, Scottish-born inventor (born 1736) 1 October – William Speechly, horticulturalist (born 1735) 30 October – John Bowles, political writer and lawyer (born 1751) 22 November – John Stackhouse, botanist (born 1742) 17 December – Charles Finch (MP), politician (born 1752) 19 December – Sir Thomas Fremantle, naval officer and politician (born 1765; died at Naples) See also 1819 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom