lacrosse club in the world, is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester, where they will still be playing in the 21st century. Henry Wickham smuggles rubber seeds out of Brazil leading to the eventual collapse of the Amazon rubber boom. Grey squirrel introduced to England at Henbury Park, Cheshire. Publications Isabella Banks' novel The Manchester Man. Walter Besant and James Rice's novel The Golden Butterfly. Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark. George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda. Anthony Trollope's book The Prime Minister, fifth of the Palliser novels. Births 13 January – Florence Sulman, author and educationalist (died 1965 in Australia) 21 January – James Larkin, trade union leader and socialist politician in Ireland (died 1947 in Ireland) 29 January – Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972) 16 February – G. M. Trevelyan, historian (died 1962) 7 March – Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor, Antarctic explorer (died 1912) 11 March – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971) 23 March – Muirhead Bone, Scottish etcher (died 1953) 28 April – Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1917) 7 May – Samuel Courtauld, art collector (died 1947) 27 May – William Stanier, railway engineer and steam locomotive designer (LMS Coronation Class) (died 1965) 13 June – William Sealy Gosset, chemist (died 1937) 19 June – Nigel Gresley, railway engineer and steam locomotive designer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (died 1941) 22 June – Gwen John, Welsh painter (died 1939) 8 August Charles Hamilton, children's story writer (died 1961) Sophia Duleep Singh, Princess and suffragette (died 1948) 17 August – Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth, politician (died 1951) 25 August – Eglantyne Jebb, champion for children (died 1928) 1 September – Harriet Shaw Weaver, political activist (died 1961) 6 September – John Macleod, Scottish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935) 6 October – Githa Sowerby, dramatist (died 1970) 2 November – William Haywood, architect (died 1957) 3 November – Rupert D'Oyly Carte, hotelier and theatrical impresario (died 1948) 7 November – Charlie Townsend, cricketer (died 1958) 26 November – Janet Philip, School Secretary at the London School for Economics (died 1959) 29 December – Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975) Deaths 19 January – George Julius Poulett Scrope, political economist (born 1797) 3 April – Mary Fildes, political activist (born c. 1789 in Ireland) 19 April – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer (born 1810) 24 May – Henry Kingsley, novelist (born