– George Long, classical scholar (died 1879) 18 November – John Nelson Darby, evangelist (died 1882) 4 December – William Fenwick Williams, military leader (died 1883) 20 December – Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax, statesman (died 1885) 25 December – John Phillips, geologist (died 1874) 27 December – John Goss, organist and composer (died 1880) Unknown dates Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (died 1869) Thomas Henry Lister, novelist and Registrar General (died 1842) Deaths 6 January – William Jones, divine (born 1726) 22 January – George Steevens, Shakespearean commentator (born 1736) 23 February – Joseph Warton, academic and literary critic (born 1722) 14 March – Daines Barrington, naturalist (born 1727) 25 April – William Cowper, poet (born 1731) 23 May – Henry Cort, ironmaster (born 1741?) 30 June – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, politician (born 1732) 16 August – Samuel Barrington, admiral (born 1729) 25 August – Elizabeth Montagu, literary critic (born 1720) 5 November – Jesse Ramsden, astronomical instrument maker (born 1735) 30 November – Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, eccentric nobleman (born 1712) 26 December – Mary Robinson, poet (born 1756) 27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718) References Further reading Years in Great Britain