1850 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1850 in the United Kingdom.

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates
4 References

[edit] Events

5 March - opening of the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. ^[1]
19 April - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the United States that both nations were not to colonize or control any Central American republic. The purpose was to prevent one country from building a canal across Central America that the other would not be able to use. ^[2]

[edit] Births

4 January - Frederick York Powell, historian and scholar (d. 1904)
15 January - Leonard Darwin, son of the naturalist Charles Darwin (d. 1943)
19 January - Augustine Birrell, author and politician (d. 1933)
27 January - John Collier, writer and painter (d. 1934)
27 January - Edward Smith, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
29 January - Ebenezer Howard, urban planner (d. 1928)
18 February - George Henschel, musician (d. 1934)
9 March - Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (d. 1925)
9 April - Julius Wernher, German-born British businessman and art collector (d. 1912)
13 April - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, astronomer (d. 1917)
26 April - Harry Bates, sculptor (d. 1899)
1 May - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, member of the Royal Family (d. 1942)
10 May - Thomas Lipton, merchant and yachtsman (d. 1931)
12 May - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, Liberal politician and jurist (d. 1934)
18 May - Oliver Heaviside, engineer (d. 1925)
26 May - James Kenyon, pioneer of cinematography (d. 1925)
28 May - Frederic William Maitland, jurist and historian (d. 1906)
2 June - Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, businessman (d. 1931)
24 June - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, field marshal and statesman (d. 1916)
13 August - Philip Bourke Marston, poet (d. 1887)
14 August - W. W. Rouse Ball, mathematician (d. 1925)
9 September - Jane Ellen Harrison, classical scholar and feminist (d. 1928)
17 September - Cuthbert A. Brereton, civil engineer (d. 1910)
18 October - Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist (d. 1935)
13 November - Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (d. 1894)
13 November - Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1922)
11 December - Mary Victoria Hamilton, Scottish-German-French great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco (d. 1922)
24 December - Brandon Thomas, actor and playwright (d. 1914)

[edit] Unknown dates

Edward John Gregory, painter (d. 1909)
Edmond Holmes, writer and poet (d. 1936)
Alfred Maudslay, colonial diplomat (d. 1931)
Ernest Albert Waterlow, painter (d. 1919)

[edit] Deaths

26 January - Francis Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (b. 1773)
13 March - Owen Stanley, naval officer and explorer of New Guinea (b. 1811)
7 April - William Lisle Bowles, poet and critic (b. 1762)
9 April - William Prout, chemist and physician (b. 1785)
23 April - William Wordsworth, poet (b. 1770)
9 June - John Green Crosse, surgeon (b. 1790)
2 July - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
4 July - William Kirby, entomologist (b. 1759)
7 July - Timothy Hackworth, steam locomotive engineer (b. 1786)
8 July - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, member of the Royal Family (b. 1774)
27 August - Thomas Kidd, classical scholar and schoolmaster (b. 1770)
2 September - Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, Tory politician (b. 1775)
2 October - Sarah Biffen, painter (b. 1784)
4 December - William Sturgeon, physicist and inventor (b. 1783)

[edit] Unknown dates

Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician (b. 1767)
Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer, military officer and colonial administrator (b. 1775)
Edward Bickersteth, evangelical divine (b. 1786)
Robert Gilfillan, poet (b. 1798)
William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales (b. 1774)
William Hamilton Maxwell, Scots-Irish novelist (b. 1792)
Jane Porter, novelist (b. 1776)
Robert Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (b. 1772)

[edit] References

^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.