and essayist (died 1889) 18 December – Lionel Monckton, musical comedy composer (died 1924) 19 December – Constance Garnett, née Black, literary translator (died 1946) Deaths 17 January – Fanny Fleming, actress (born 1796) 29 January – Catherine Gore, novelist and dramatist (born 1798) 6 February – Bulkeley Bandinel, scholar-librarian (born 1781) 7 February – John Brown, geographer (born 1797) 16 March – Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria (born 1786 in Germany) 8 April – John Bartholomew, Sr., Scottish cartographer (born 1805) 24 April – Sir Hedworth Williamson, 7th Baronet, politician (born 1797) 13 June – Henry Gray, anatomist (smallpox) (born 1827) 18 June – Eaton Hodgkinson, structural engineer (born 1789) 29 June – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (born 1806) 6 July – Sir Francis Palgrave, historian (born 1788) 29 July – Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, politician (born 1797) 3 September – Ernest Edgcumbe, 3rd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, politician (born 1797) 4 October – Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, noble (born 1812) 5 October – William Ranwell, marine painter (born 1797) 13 October – Sir William Cubitt, civil engineer (born 1785) 21 October – Edward Dickinson Baker, United States Senator from Oregon, 1860–1861 (born 1811 in the U.K.) 13 November Arthur Hugh Clough, poet (born 1819) Sir John Forbes, royal physician (born 1787) John Hodgetts-Foley, politician (born 1797) 10 December – Thomas Southwood Smith, physician and sanitary reformer (born 1788) 14 December – Albert, Prince Consort, spouse of Queen Victoria (born 1819 in Germany) See also 1861 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom