management and cookery (born 1836) 11 March – Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, explorer (born 1804 in Freiburg) 2 April – John Cassell, publisher and entrepreneur (born 1817) 30 April – Robert FitzRoy, meteorologist and admiral (born 1805; suicide) 27 May – Charles Waterton, naturalist and explorer (born 1782) 8 June – Sir Joseph Paxton, gardener and architect (born 1803) 25 July – Dr James Barry, military surgeon, revealed on death to be a woman, probably Margaret Ann Bulkley (born 1789-1799) 28 July – William Henry Smith, businessman (born 1792) 12 August – Sir William Hooker, botanist (born 1785) 24 August – Charles Baillie-Hamilton, politician (born 1800) 8 September – William Henry Smyth, astronomer and admiral (born 1788) 18 October – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister (born 1784) 19 October – William King, physician and philanthropist (born 1786) 1 November – John Lindley, botanist (born 1799) 8 November – Tom Sayers, boxer (born 1826) 12 November – Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist and biographer (born 1810) 16 November – Sir Horatio Thomas Austin, naval officer and explorer (born 1800) 24 December – Sir Charles Eastlake, painter (born 1793) See also 1865 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom