actor (died 2002) Deaths 8 January – Harry Seeley, palaeontologist (born 1839) 14 January – Arthur William à Beckett, journalist (born 1844) 24 February – Fanny Cornforth, artists' model (born 1835) 1 April – Sir Marshal Clarke, Anglo-Irish colonial administrator (born 1841) 10 April – Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet (born 1837) 13 April – Sir Donald Currie, Scottish shipping magnate (born 1825) 12 May – Sir Hugh Gough, general, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1833 in British India) 18 May – George Meredith, novelist and poet (born 1828) 31 May – Thomas Price, Welsh-born Prime Minister of South Australia (born 1852) 10 June – Aylmer Spicer Cameron, Scottish army officer, VC recipient (born 1833) 22 June – Edward John Gregory, painter (born 1850) 1 July – Curzon Wyllie, soldier and politician (murdered) (born 1848) 9 July George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, politician (born 1827) Rosa Nouchette Carey, children's writer (born 1840) 1 August – Sir Hugh Rowlands, Welsh general, first Welsh Victoria Cross recipient (born 1828) 14 August – William Stanley, inventor, precision engineer (born 1829) 22 August – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, dermatologist (born 1846) 25 October – Arthur Bromley, British Royal Navy officer, Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard (born 1847) 9 November – William Powell Frith, painter (born 1819) 10 November – George Essex Evans, Welsh-Australian poet (born 1863) 11 December – Ludwig Mond, industrialist (born 1839) 13 December – Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (born 1845) See also List of British films before 1920 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom