Sellar, humorist (died 1951) Deaths 12 January – Sir Joseph Terry, confectioner and politician (born 1828) 14 January – Lewis Carroll, children's writer and mathematician (born 1832) 16 January – Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (born 1802) 18 January – Henry Liddell, classicist, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (born 1811) 1 March – George Bruce Malleson, officer in India and author (born 1825) 15 March – Sir Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor (born 1813) 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, artist (born 1872) 19 May – William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (born 1809) 3 June – Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer (born 1824) 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, painter and designer (born 1833) 14 July – Eliza Lynn Linton, novelist and journalist (born 1822) 28 September – Thomas Gee, Welsh non-Conformist preacher publisher (born 1815) 2 November – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (born 1826) 20 November – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, civil engineer (born 1817) See also List of British films before 1920 References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom