bishop (born 1831) 12 July – Harry Day, Wales international rugby player (born 1863) 13 August – Thomas Thomas, boxer (born 1880) 18 August – Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, politician (born 1828) 28 August – Jack Williams, Wales international rugby player (born 1882) 29 August – Hildegard Werner, musical conductor and journalist (born 1834 in Sweden) 16 September – Edward Whymper, explorer (born 1840) 20 September – Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, diplomat (born 1835) 30 September – Sir Herbert Risley, ethnographer and colonial administrator (born 1851) October – Blanche Atkinson, novelist (born 1847) 7 October – John Hughlings Jackson, neurologist (born 1835) 8 October – Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith), children's writer (born 1832) 11 October – Henry Broadhurst, trade unionist, politician (born 1840) 27 October – Arthur Lloyd, Anglican missionary (born 1852) 30 October – Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness Herbert of Lea, Roman Catholic writer, translator, philanthropist and social figure (born 1822) 2 November – Kyrle Bellew, actor (born 1850) 3 November – George Chrystal, mathematician (born 1851) 14 November – Francis Buxton, barrister and politician (born 1847) 19 November – Billy Beaumont, footballer (born 1883) 20 November – Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild, needlework artist (born 1824) 22 November – William George Aston, consular official (born 1841) 29 November – Stanley Calvert Clarke, army officer, courtier 7 December – Robert Maitland Brereton, civil engineer (born 1834) 10 December – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (born 1817) 11 December – Rowland Ellis, Episcopalian bishop (born 1841) 13 December – John Strange Winter (Henrietta Stannard), novelist (born 1856) 20 December – William McGregor, founder of the English Football League (born 1846) See also List of British films before 1920 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom