level. Chlorine named by Humphry Davy. Rev. Dr. William Pearson establishes Temple Grove School at East Sheen, perhaps the earliest preparatory school in the country. Sake Dean Mahomet opens the Hindoostane Coffee House, the first Indian restaurant in London. Palm oil sales from West Africa to Britain reach 1,000 tons. Ongoing Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815 Anglo-Russian War, 1807–1812 Peninsular War, 1808–1814 Publications George Crabbe's epistolatory poem The Borough. Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake. Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales. Births 12 January – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (died 1882) 15 January – John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873) 19 January – Talhaiarn, poet and architect (died 1869) 24 January – Thomas Jones, missionary (died 1849) 10 March – Samuel Ferguson, poet and artist (died 1886) 27 March - William Hepworth Thompson, classical scholar (died 1886) 30 March – Pablo Fanque, black circus owner, popularized by The Beatles in song (died 1871) 5 April - Sir Henry Rawlinson, politician and Orientalist (died 1895) 21 April - Thomas Wright, antiquarian (died 1877) 17 July - Martin Farquhar Tupper, poet and writer (died 1889) 29 September – Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist (died 1865) Deaths 26 January – James Martin, radical politician (born 1738) 24 February – Henry Cavendish, scientist (born 1731) 7 March – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, admiral (born 1748) 24 March – Mary Tighe, Anglo-Irish poet (born 1772) 3 April – Twm o'r Nant, Welsh dramatist and poet (born 1739) 26 April – John Metcalf, English roadbuilder (born 1717) 15 May – Francis Hews, Baptist preacher in Bedfordshire 21 May – Chevalier d'Eon, French-born diplomat, spy, soldier and transvestite (born 1728) 4 June – William Windham, Whig statesman (born 1750) 2 November – Princess Amelia, member of the Royal Family (born 1783) 15 December – Sarah Trimmer, writer for children (born 1741) probable – William Cruickshank, Scottish military surgeon, chemist and inventor See also 1810 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom