Anglo-Ashanti war. Football Clubs formed Stoke City F.C. Wrexham F.C. Publications Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies (complete in book form). Charles Lyell's work Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, endorsing the views of Charles Darwin. Mrs Oliphant's novel Salem Chapel, first of The Chronicles of Carlingford (in book form). Ouida's novel Held in Bondage. Births 17 January – David Lloyd George, Prime Minister (died 1945) 11 March – Andrew Stoddart, sportsman (died 1915) 27 March – Henry Royce, automobile pioneer (died 1933) 5 April – Victoria, Marchioness of Milford Haven, member of the Royal Family (died 1950) 18 April – Linton Hope, Olympic yachtsman and yacht and aircraft designer (died 1920) 15 May – Frank Hornby, inventor, businessman and politician (died 1936) 17 May – Charles Robert Ashbee, designer (died 1942) 27 May – Arthur Mold, cricketer (died 1921) 13 June – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer (died 1942) 19 June – John Goodall, footballer (died 1942) 6 July – Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1915–1916 (died 1943) 21 July – C. Aubrey Smith, actor and cricketer (died 1948 in Beverly Hills) 13 September – Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935) 16 October – Austen Chamberlain, statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1937) 17 December – Violet Bland, suffragette (died 1940) Deaths 6 January – Harriet Gouldsmith, landscape painter and etcher (born 1787) 9 March – John Gully, sportsman and politician (born 1783) 13 April – Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806) 14 August – Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, soldier (born 1792) 24 June – Sir George Elliot, admiral (born 1784) 17 September – Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, archaeologist and writer (born 1788) 26 September – Frederick William Faber, poet, hymnodist, theologian and Catholic convert (born 1814) 6 October – Frances Milton Trollope, novelist and writer (born 1779) 8 October – Richard Whately, theologian and archbishop (born 1787) 28 October – William Cubitt, building and civil engineering contractor and politician (born 1791) 24 December – William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist (born 1811) 29 December – Joseph John Scoles, Catholic architect (born 1798) See also 1863 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom