1836 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1836 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

[edit] Events

• October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, Cornwall aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
• October 31 - Bristol riot - In Bristol, large crowd protests against the decision of the House of Lords to defeat the Reform Act . They burn down 100 houses, including the Bishop's Palace, the Custom House and the Mansion House and release prisoners. The dragoons attack the crowd and kill and wound hundreds.

• Chartists demand universal male suffrage.

[edit] Births

• 16 February - Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (d. 1894)
• 12 March - Isabella Beeton, cook and expert on household management (d. 1865)
• 24 May - Joseph Rowntree, Quaker and philanthropist (d. 1925)
• 8 July - Joseph Chamberlain, politician (d. 1914)
• 7 September - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1908)
• 18 November - W. S. Gilbert, dramatist (d. 1911)

[edit] Deaths

• 21 January - Jack Small, cricketer (b. 1765)
• 28 January - William Scott Stowell, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (b. 1745)
• 31 January - John Cheyne, physician (b. 1777)
• 1 February - John By, military engineer (b. 1779)
• 4 February - William Gell, archaeologist (b. 1777)
• 15 February - John Gillies, historian and classical scholar (b. 1747)
• 22 February - John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (b. 1770)
• 27 February - Elizabeth Whitlock, actress (b. 1761)
• 31 March - Edward Southwell Ruthven, Irish politician and MP (b. c. 1772)
• 7 April - William Godwin, journalist, political philosopher and novelist (b. 1756)
• 23 June - James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher (b. 1773)
• 18 July - James Henry Keith Stewart, Member of Parliament (b. 1783)
• 28 July - Nathan Mayer Rothschild, financier (b. 1777, Frankfurt am Main)
• 21 August - Edward Turner Bennett, zoologist and writer (b. 1797)
• 21 August - William Cusac Smith, Baronet, judge (b. 1766)
• 26 August - William Elford Leach, zoologist and marine biologist (b. 1790)
• September - Theresa Berkley, dominatrix and brothel keeper (year of birth unknown)
• 2 September - William Henry, chemist (b. 1775)
• 3 September - Daniel Mendoza, boxer (b. 1764)
• 7 September - John Pond, astronomer (b. 1767)
• 21 September - John Stafford Smith, composer, church organist, and early musicologist (b. 1750)
• 3 October - James Blaikie, Lord Provost of Aberdeen (b. 1786)
• 6 October - William Marsden, orientalist (b. 1754)
• 11 October - William Knighton, Private Secretary to the Sovereign (b. 1776)
• 17 October - George Colman the Younger, dramatist (b. 1762)
• 13 November - Charles Simeon, clergyman (b. 1759)
• 26 November - John Loudon McAdam, engineer and road-builder (b. 1756)
• 4 December - Richard Westall, painter (b. 1765)
• 30 December - James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (b. 1755)

[edit] Unknown dates

• William Dawes, Royal Marine officer (b. 1762)
• Nathan Drake, essayist and physician (b. 1766)
• George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, nobleman, soldier and politician (b. 1770)
• Dorothy Kilner, children's author (b. 1755)
• Jeremy Lister, British Army officer (b. 1752)
• John Mayne, poet (b. 1759)
• Thomas Minton, potter (b. 1765)
• Cesar Picton, slave turned businessman (b. c. 1755, Senegal)
• John Rippon, Baptist minister (b. 1751)
• Charles Wilkins, typographer and Orientalist (b. 1749)