Scilly, is evacuated. Publications Samuel Orchart Beeton's weekly The Boys' Own Magazine (begins publication January). Mrs Archer Clive's novel Paul Ferroll. Serialisation of Charles Dickens' novel Little Dorrit. Mrs Gaskell's novel North and South. Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes. Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden. The Ancient Music of Ireland, including the first published version of the Londonderry Air. Births 21 January – Henry B. Jackson, admiral (died 1929). 1 May – Marie Corelli, novelist (died 1924). 23 May – Isabella Ford, socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (died 1924). 2 June – Archibald Berkeley Milne, admiral (died 1938). 28 August – Alexander Bethell, admiral (died 1932). 17 December – Frank Hedges Butler, wine merchant and founding member of the Aero Club of Great Britain (died 1928). Deaths 3 January – Julius Hare, theological writer (born 1795). 10 January – Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist (born 1787). 25 January – Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist (born 1771). 20 February – Joseph Hume, doctor and politician (born 1777). 27 February – Bryan Donkin, engineer and inventor (born 1768). 3 March – Copley Fielding, watercolour landscape painter (born 1787). 31 March – Charlotte Brontë, author (born 1816). 13 April – Sir Henry De la Beche, geologist (born 1796). 15 April – William John Bankes, MP, explorer and Egyptologist (born 1786; died in Venice). 5 May – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1786). 23 May – Charles Robert Malden, explorer (born 1797). 28 June – Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War (born 1788). 6 July – Andrew Crosse, 'gentleman scientist', pioneer experimenter in electricity and poet (born 1784). 8 July – Sir Edward Parry, Arctic explorer (born 1790). 30 August – Feargus O'Connor, political radical and Chartist leader (born 1794 in Ireland). 4 September – Emma Tatham, poet (born 1829). 18 September – James Finlay Weir Johnston, chemist (born 1796). 27 September – John Adamson, antiquary and expert on Portuguese (born 1787) 3 December – Robert Montgomery, poet (born 1807). 18 December – Samuel Rogers, poet (born 1763). 20 December – Thomas Cubitt, master builder (born 1785). See also 1855 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom