designer (died 1944) 28 June – Robert Jones, Welsh orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933) 19 September – James Bridie, rugby union international (died 1893) 28 September – Lewis Bayly, admiral (died 1938) 2 October John Macintyre Scottish laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (died 1928) A. E. Waite, occultist (died 1942) 4 October – Will Thorne, trade unionist (died 1946) 5 November – Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (died 1931) 17 November – George Marchant, inventor, manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1941) 22 November – George Gissing, novelist (died 1903) 27 November – Charles Scott Sherrington, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1952) 30 November – Bobby Abel, cricketer (died 1936) 2 December – Robert Armstrong-Jones, physician and psychiatrist (died 1943) Deaths 1 January – John Britton, antiquary and topographer (born 1771) 2 January – Andrew Ure, doctor and writer (born 1778) 20 January – John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland (born 1778) 10 February – David Thompson, explorer (born 1770) 18 February – Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician (born 1800) 22 February – Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, peer and Member of Parliament (born 1797) 13 March – William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, diplomat and peer (born 1773) 11 May – Granville Waldegrave, 2nd Baron Radstock, naval officer (born 1786) 16 May – Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (born 1782) 27 May – George Anson, army officer and Whig politician (born 1797) 12 August – William Conybeare, dean of Llandaff (born 1787) 16 August – John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister (born 1796) 24 November – Sir Henry Havelock, general (born 1795) 30 November – Mary Buckland, palaeontologist and marine biologist (born 1797) 15 December – Sir George Cayley, aviation pioneer (born 1773) 17 December – Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer and hydrographer (born 1774) See also 1857 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom