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1862 in the United Kingdom

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1862 in the United Kingdom

Other years

1860 |1861 |1862 (1862) |1863 |1864

Constituent countries of the United Kingdom

England |Ireland |Scotland |Wales

Sport

1862 English cricket season

Events from the year1862 in theUnited Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

January – at the end of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history,William Frederick Windham, heir toFelbrigg Hall in Norfolk, is declared to be of sound mind.^[1]^[2]
6 January – French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning theFrench intervention in Mexico.
16 January –Hartley Colliery Disaster: 204 miners die following collapse of machinery at the Hartley Colliery inNorthumberland.^[3]
15 March – riots inStalybridge resulting from theLancashire Cotton Famine.^[4]
21 March –James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointedGovernor-General of India.^[5]
May – the 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of theFlying Scotsmanexpress train, first departs fromLondon King's Cross forEdinburgh over theEast Coast Main Line.
1 May –1862 International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens inSouth Kensington.^[4]
16 May –Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs ofhabeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.^[6]
24 May – newWestminster Bridge, designed byThomas Page, is opened in London.^[7]
5 June –"Geordie" Ridley first sings "Blaydon Races" atBalmbra's Music Hall,Newcastle upon Tyne.
30 June – 'Revised Code', introducing a system of 'payment by results' forelementary schools in England and Wales, begins to come into effect. Government aid is given in annual grants based upon attendance and proficiency of students, teacher qualifications, and the state of schools.^[8]^[9]^[10]
1 July – marriage ofPrincess Alice, second daughter ofQueen Victoria, toPrince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
4 July –Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takesAlice Liddell and her sisters on arowing trip onThe Isis fromFolly Bridge,Oxford, toGodstow on which he tells the story that becomesAlice's Adventures in Wonderland.^[11]
29 July –Confederate commerce raider CSSAlabama is launched clandestinely atBirkenhead byJohn Laird Sons and Company.^[12]
7 August –Companies Act 1862 facilitates creation oflimited liability companies.
31 August – lastmail coach runs fromCarlisle toHawick,Scotland.^[13]
14 September – a British national,Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan bysamurai in theNamamugi Incident. Three companions escape, though two are seriously injured.
30 September –Clifton College opens as apublic school nearBristol.^[14]
11 October – Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in theSandyford murder case inGlasgow, is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
20 October –Charles Thomas Longley succeeds asArchbishop of Canterbury, being translated fromYork.^[15]
November – criminal law amended to makerobbery with violence punishable byflogging.^[4]
c. November –Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of theThames Embankment in London.^[4]^[16]
28 November –Notts County F.C. is founded inNottingham, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldestAssociation football playing professionally.
Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) forms the firstAnglican Benedictine community, initially atClaydon, Suffolk.

Publications

Thomas Allan'sTyneside Songs.
M. E. Braddon's 'sensation novel'Lady Audley's Secret.
George Eliot's novelRomola (serialisation).
Herbert Spencer's bookFirst Principles, the first volume of hisSystem of Synthetic Philosophy.
Anthony Trollope's novelOrley Farm completes publication.

Births

Frederick Delius

29 January –Frederick Delius, composer (d. 1934)
17 February –Edward German, composer (d. 1936)
11 March –John Cowans, general (d. 1921)
1 April –Archibald Bodkin,Director of Public Prosecutions (d. 1957)
9 May –Hugh Stowell Scott (Henry Seton Merriman), novelist (d. 1903)
27 May –Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Egyptologist (d. 1934)
6 June –Henry Newbolt, poet (d. 1938)
9 June –Ernest William Moir, civil engineer (d. 1933)
10 June –John de Robeck, admiral (d. 1928)
2 July
- William Henry Bragg, physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
- Christopher Cradock, admiral (d. 1914)
15 July –Ernest Troubridge, admiral (d. 1926)
1 August –M. R. James, scholar and horror story writer (d. 1936)
5 August –Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (d. 1890)
6 August –Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, historian (d. 1932)
26 August –Herbert Booth,Salvationist (d. 1926)
11 September –Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, general (d. 1935)
29 September –Fred Russell, "The Father of ModernVentriloquism" (d. 1957)
3 October –Johnny Briggs, cricketer (d. 1902)
13 October –Mary Kingsley, travel writer (d. 1900)
27 October –Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
12 December –J. Bruce Ismay, shipping magnate of White Star Line (d. 1937)
28 December –Christina Broom, photographer (d. 1939)

Deaths

John Bird Sumner

3 January –Matthew Cotes Wyatt, painter and sculptor (b. 1777)
11 February –Elizabeth Siddall, artist, artist's model and poet, wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. 1829)
1 March –Peter Barlow, mathematician (b. 1776)
3 April –Sir James Clark Ross, naval officer and explorer (b. 1800)
15 April –Frederick William Hope, entomologist (b. 1797)
16 May –Edward Gibbon Wakefield, theorist of colonization (b. 1796)
17 June –Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Viceroy of India (b. 1812)
29 June –James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (b. 1799)
27 August –Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer (b. 1792)
6 September –John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1780)
24 September –Judith Montefiore, linguist (b. 1784)
8 October –James Walker, civil engineer (b. 1781)
21 October –Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, physiologist (b. 1783)
4 November –Anne Knight, social reformer (b. 1786)
26 November –Julia Pardoe, novelist and historian (b. 1804)
17 December –Katherine Thomson, writing as Grace Wharton, novelist and historian (b. 1797)
19 December –Lucas Barrett, naturalist and geologist (b. 1837)
20 December –Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist (b. 1791)^[17]

References

^Jones, Kingsley (October 1971)."The Windham Case: The Enquiry held in London in 1861 into the state of mind of William Frederick Windham, heir to the Felbrigg Estate".British Journal of Psychiatry.119 (551):425–433.doi:10.1192/bjp.119.551.425.PMID 4942958.S2CID 828347.
^Scull, Andrew (1981).Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era.ISBN 9780812211191.
^Durham Mining Museum – Colliery Disaster 1862
^^a ^b ^c ^dPalmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284.ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^Cates, William L. R. (1863).The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^Osborn, P. G. (2008).A Concise Law Dictionary, for Students and Practitioners. Read Books. p. 124.ISBN 978-1-4437-2948-2.
^"Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide". Retrieved1 September 2011.
^Berry, George (1970).Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications.ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
^"Leader".The Times. No. 24364. London. 30 September 1862. p. 6.
^Arnold, Matthew; Great Britain. Education Dept; Marvin, Francis Sydney (1908).Reports on elementary schools 1852-1882. University of California Libraries. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Office, by Wyman and sons, limited.
^Davies, Mark J. (2010).Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford. Oxford: Signal Books.ISBN 978-1-904955-72-6.
^"TheAlabama". Archived fromthe original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved26 February 2007.
^"C3 – Coaching".Carlisle Encyclopaedia. Carlisle History.Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved10 September 2010.
^"Opening of Clifton College".The Times. No. 24366. 2 October 1862. p. 7.
^Garrard, J. R. (2004)."Longley, Charles Thomas (1794–1868)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved19 November 2010.(subscription orUK public library membership required)
^"The Thames Embankment".The Times. No. 24414. 27 November 1862. p. 12.
^Taylor, Clare L. (2004)."Knox, Robert (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15787.ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved20 December 2021. (Subscription orUK public library membership required.)

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