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UK-related events during the year of 1862
Events from the year
1862 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January – at the end of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history,
William Frederick Windham , heir to
Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, is declared to be of sound mind.
[1]
[2]
6 January – French and British forces arrive in Mexico, beginning the
French intervention in Mexico .
16 January –
Hartley Colliery Disaster : 204 miners die following collapse of machinery at the Hartley Colliery in
Northumberland .
[3]
15 March – riots in
Stalybridge resulting from the
Lancashire Cotton Famine .
[4]
21 March –
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed
Governor-General of India .
[5]
May – the 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of the
Flying Scotsman
express train , first departs from
London King's Cross for
Edinburgh over the
East Coast Main Line .
1 May –
1862 International Exhibition of Industry and Science opens in
South Kensington .
[4]
16 May –
Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of
habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.
[6]
24 May – new
Westminster Bridge , designed by
Thomas Page , is opened in London.
[7]
5 June –
"Geordie" Ridley first sings "
Blaydon Races " at
Balmbra's Music Hall ,
Newcastle upon Tyne .
30 June – 'Revised Code', introducing a system of 'payment by results' for
elementary 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 of
Princess Alice , second daughter of
Queen Victoria , to
Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine .
4 July –
Charles Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes
Alice Liddell and her sisters on a
rowing trip on
The Isis from
Folly Bridge ,
Oxford , to
Godstow on which he tells the story that becomes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .
[11]
29 July –
Confederate
commerce raider
CSS Alabama is launched clandestinely at
Birkenhead by
John Laird Sons and Company .
[12]
7 August –
Companies Act 1862 facilitates creation of
limited liability companies.
31 August – last
mail coach runs from
Carlisle to
Hawick ,
Scotland .
[13]
14 September – a British national,
Charles Lenox Richardson , is killed in Japan by
samurai in the
Namamugi Incident . Three companions escape, though two are seriously injured.
30 September –
Clifton College opens as a
public school near
Bristol .
[14]
11 October – Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in the
Sandyford murder case in
Glasgow , is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
20 October –
Charles Thomas Longley succeeds as
Archbishop of Canterbury , being translated from
York .
[15]
November – criminal law amended to make
robbery with violence punishable by
flogging .
[4]
c. November –
Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the
Thames Embankment in London.
[4]
[16]
28 November –
Notts County F.C. is founded in
Nottingham , making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest
Association football playing professionally.
Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) forms the first
Anglican Benedictine community, initially at
Claydon, Suffolk .
Publications
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
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 Modern
Ventriloquism " (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]
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British Journal of Psychiatry . 119 (551): 425–433.
doi :
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^ Scull, Andrew (1981).
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ISBN
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^
Durham Mining Museum – Colliery Disaster 1862
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d Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 283–284.
ISBN
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^
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" . Retrieved 1 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 .
^
"The Alabama " . Archived from
the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2007 .
^
"C3 – Coaching" . Carlisle Encyclopaedia . Carlisle History.
Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 10 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. Retrieved 19 November 2010 . (subscription or
UK 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 . Retrieved 20 December 2021 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)