– Ernest Swinton, general, pioneer of the military tank (died 1951) 23 October Frederick W. Lanchester, automotive engineer (died 1946) William Rylands, businessman and baronet (died 1948) 30 November Angela Brazil, writer of schoolgirl fiction (died 1947) Ernest Newman, music critic (died 1959) Deaths 10 February – Sir David Brewster, Scottish scientist, inventor and writer (born 1781) 24 February – John Herapath, physicist and railway journalist (born 1790) 25 February – James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale, judge (born 1782) 28 March – James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, military leader (born 1797) 12 April – James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, politician (born 1791) 2 May – James Wilson Carmichael, marine painter (born 1800) 7 May – Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1778) 11 May – John Crawfurd, Scottish physician, colonial administrator, diplomat and author; last British Resident of Singapore (born 1783) 26 July – Robert Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth, Lord Chancellor (born 1791) 29 July John Elliotson, physician and author (born 1791) Sir John Lillie, army officer, entrepreneur and inventor (born 1790) 3 August – Edward Welch, Welsh-born architect (born 1806) 17 August – Duncan Forbes, linguist (born 1798) 24 September – Henry Hart Milman, historian and ecclesiastic (born 1791) 27 October – Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1794) 28 October – Sir Richard Pakenham, diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (born 1797) 23 December – Sir Herbert Edwardes, general and colonial administrator (born 1819) See also 1868 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom