Irish-born research chemist and teacher (died 1871) 15 March – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (died 1893) 19 March – Richard Francis Burton, explorer, orientalist and translator (died 1890) 25 March – Isabella Banks, poet and novelist (died 1897) 28 March – William Howard Russell, Irish-born war correspondent (died 1907) 3 April – T. Pelham Dale, mystic (died 1892) 12 April – Beauchamp Seymour, admiral (died 1895) 16 April – Ford Madox Brown, painter (died 1893) 21 April – Philip Henry Delamotte, pioneer photographer (died 1889) 26 April – Robert Adamson, Scottish pioneer photographer (died 1848) 27 April – Henry Willis, organ builder (died 1901) 29 May – Frederick Locker-Lampson, man of letters (died 1895) 16 June – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (died 1908) 30 June – William Hepworth Dixon, historian, traveller and journal editor (died 1879) 9 July George Cavendish-Bentinck, Conservative politician (died 1891) Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, freemason and clergyman (died 1887) 16 August – Arthur Cayley, mathematician (died 1895) 28 August – Thomas Seddon, landscape painter (died 1856 in Egypt) 11 October – George Williams, founder of the YMCA (died 1905) 30 November – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1902) 11 December – George Granville Bradley, Dean of Westminster and scholar (died 1903) Deaths 23 February – John Keats, poet, of tuberculosis in Rome (born 1795) 4 March – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) (born 1820) 2 May – Hester Thrale, diarist and patron of the arts (born 1741?) 28 May – Charles Alfred Stothard, draughtsman (born 1786) 15 June – John Ballantyne, Scottish publisher (born 1774) 4 July – Richard Cosway, portrait painter (born 1742) 7 August – Caroline of Brunswick, estranged queen consort of King George IV, intestinal obstruction (born 1768) 1 August – Elizabeth Inchbald, novelist and dramatist (born 1753) 24 August – John William Polidori, physician and writer, probable suicide (born 1795) 4 October – John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer (born 1761) 5 October – Claudius Rich, archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1787) November – Alexander Gordon, distiller (born 1742) 17 November – James Burney, rear-admiral and naval writer (born 1750) 4 December – John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker, politician (born 1752) 5 December – Henry Noble Shipton, army officer (born 1797) 12 December – Phoebe Hessel, female soldier (born 1713) See also 1821 in Scotland References Further reading Years of the 19th