– Ethna Carbery, born Anna Johnston, Irish poet (died 1902) 11 December – Jack Southworth, footballer (died 1956) Deaths 19 January – Harriet Ludlow Clarke, wood engraver and stained glass artist 23 January – Thomas Love Peacock, satirical novelist (born 1785) 27 January – John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790) 6 March Sir William Gore Ouseley, diplomat (born 1797) William Whewell, scientist, philosopher and historian of science (born 1794) 21 March – Charles Henry Cooper, antiquarian (born 1808) 29 March – John Keble, churchman (born 1792) 1 April – Elizabeth Jesser Reid, social reformer, promoter of women's higher education (born 1789) 4 April – William Dick, Scottish veterinary surgeon (born 1793) 5 April – Thomas Hodgkin, physician (born 1798) 12 April – Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, poliltician and developer (born 1801) 21 April – Jane Welsh Carlyle, writer (born 1801) 5 August – Henry William-Powlett, 3rd Baron Bayning, peer and clergyman (born 1797) 21 August – George Shillibeer, coachbuilder (born 1797) 10 September – David Ramsay Hay, interior decorator (born 1798) 1 December – Sir George Everest, geodesist (born 1790) See also 1866 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom