Catherine. William Whewell's book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their history, in which he introduces the words "Physicist" and (for the second time) "Scientist". Births 1 January – Dugald Drummond, railway locomotive engineer (died 1912) 18 January – Henry Austin Dobson, poet and essayist (died 1921) 26 January – John Clayton Adams, landscape painter (died 1906) 5 February – John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (died 1921) 29 February – John Philip Holland, inventor (died 1914) 30 March – Charles Booth, shipowner and social reformer (died 1916) 31 March – Benjamin Baker, civil engineer (died 1907) 27 April – Edward Whymper, mountaineer (died 1911) 2 June – Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (died 1928) 20 June – George Selwyn Marryat, fly fisherman (died 1896) 21 June – Edward Stanley Gibbons, philatelic stamp dealer (died 1913) 9 October – Simeon Solomon, painter (died 1905) 21 November – Victoria, Princess Royal (died 1901) 29 November – Rhoda Broughton, fiction writer (died 1920) Deaths 6 January – Frances Burney, novelist (born 1752) 18 February – Sir Jeffry Wyattville, architect and garden designer (born 1766) 30 March – Beau Brummell, arbiter of fashion (born 1778) 7 April – William Heath, caricaturist (born 1794) 15 April – Thomas Drummond, army officer, civil engineer and public official (born 1797) 1 May – Joseph Williamson, philanthropist and builder of Williamson's tunnels (born 1769) 26 May – Sidney Smith, admiral (born 1764) 28 July – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (born 1792) 22 September Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom (born 1768) Anne Lister, landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (born 1791) See also 1840 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom