– Flora Finch, silent film comedian (died 1940 in the United States) 2 July – Herbert Prior, actor (died 1954) 24 July – E. F. Benson, author (died 1940) 2 August – Ernest Dowson, Decadent poet and fiction writer (died 1900) 3 August – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister (died 1947) 6 August – Sam Mussabini, athletics coach (died 1927) 9 August – Evelina Haverfield, suffragette (died 1920) 14 August – John Galsworthy, novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1933) 19 September – Arthur Rackham, illustrator (died 1939) 21 September – Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, politician, 4th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1958) 25 September – Katharine Glasier, née Conway, writer and socialist (died 1950) 7 November – George Paish, economist (died 1957) 24 November – Detmar Blow, Arts and Crafts architect (died 1939) 2 December – Alec B. Francis, actor (died 1934) Undated – Laura Anning Bell, née Richard, artist (died 1950) Deaths 16 January – William Marsden, surgeon (born 1796) 5 February – Henry Crabb Robinson, man of letters, lawyer and diarist (born 1775) 18 April – Sir Robert Smirke, Greek Revival architect (born 1780) 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, Welsh-born industrialist and politician (born 1802) 22 May – Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor (born 1788) 19 July – Maria Abdy, poet (born 1797) 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788) 25 August – Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist (born 1791) 21 November – John Ogilvie, Scottish lexicographer (born 1797) 1 December Charles Gray Round, barrister and politician (born 1797) William Thomas, guardian of Aboriginal Australians (born 1793) 27 December – Maria Foote, actress (born 1797) 30 December – Sarah Booth, actress (born 1793) Undated – James Pollard, painter and aquatint engraver of equine subjects (born 1792) See also 1867 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom