1876 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1876 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents[edit]

Undated[edit]

Publications[edit]

  • 13 January – Florence Sulman, author and educationalist (died 1965 in Australia)[13]
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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 1830)
  • 27 June – Harriet Martineau, philosopher and social theorist (born 1802)
  • 14 July – Thomas Hazlehurst, chemical manufacturer and Methodist chapel builder (born 1816)
  • 17 July – Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham, soldier, courtier and politician (born 1797)
  • 19 August – George Smith, Assyriologist (born 1840)
  • 24 August – John Roberton, Scottish physician and social reformer (born 1797)
  • 16 September – Hedworth Lambton, politician (born 1797)
  • 18 October – Sir Thomas Dickson Archibald, judge (born 1817 in Nova Scotia)
  • 29 December – Sir Titus Salt, woollen manufacturer and philanthropist (born 1803)

References[edit]

  1. ^ “United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office”.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). “1876”. The People’s Chronology. Thomson Gale.
  3. ^ Gough, John (1989). The Midland Railway: a chronology (2nd ed.). Gwernymynydd: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 183. ISBN 0-901461-12-1.
  4. ^ Macintyre, Ben (31 July 1994). “The Disappearing Duchess”. The New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  5. ^ Rice, A. L. (1999). “The Challenger Expedition”. Understanding the Oceans: Marine Science in the Wake of HMS Challenger. London: Routledge. pp. 27–48. ISBN 978-1-85728-705-9.
  6. ^ “Key dates in Education Great Britain 1000-1899”. Thepotteries.org. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  7. ^ The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2
  8. ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1892). Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 40–.
  9. ^ Gillard, Derek (2018). “Education in England: a history”. HDA. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  10. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 299–300. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  11. ^ Henry James. The Conquest of London:1870-1881. Leon Edel Volume II, ISBN 0-380-39651-3
  12. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  13. ^ Henry, Margaret. “Sulman, Florence (1876–1965)”. Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 9 September 2022.