1862 in the United Kingdom

none June 2022 1862 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1862 English cricket season Events from the year 1862 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (Liberal) 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.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/windham-case/FDD307FB900C0B6E7D4B584CB042EBE5 The Windham Case: The Enquiry held in London in 1861 into the state of mind of William Frederick Windham, heir to the Felbrigg Estate Kingsley Jones British Journal of Psychiatry 119 551 October 1971 425–433 10.1192/bjp.119.551.425 4942958 828347 subscriptionhttps://books.google.com/books?id=aE1JCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA356 Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era 9780812211191 Scull Andrew 1981 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.Durham Mining Museum – Colliery Disaster 1862 15 March – riots in Stalybridge resulting from the Lancashire Cotton Famine.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 283–284 0-7126-5616-2 21 March – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin appointed Governor-General of India.The Pocket Date Book https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 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. 16 May – Habeas Corpus Act restricts the right of English courts to issue writs of habeas corpus in British colonies or dominions.Osborn P. G. A Concise Law Dictionary, for Students and Practitioners Read Books 2008 978-1-4437-2948-2 124 24 May – new Westminster Bridge, designed by Thomas Page, is opened in London.http://thames.me.uk/s00130.htm Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide 2011-09-01 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.George Berry Discovering Schools Tring Shire Publications 1970 0-85263-091-3Leader The Times London 1862-09-30 6 24364https://archive.org/details/reportsonelement00arnorich Reports on elementary schools 1852-1882 Arnold Matthew Great Britain. Education Dept Marvin Francis Sydney 1908 London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Office, by Wyman and sons, limited University of California Libraries 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.Mark J. Davies Alice in Waterland: Lewis Carroll and the River Thames in Oxford Oxford Signal Books 2010 978-1-904955-72-6 29 July – Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama is launched clandestinely at Birkenhead by John Laird Sons and Company.The Alabama http://www.csa-dixie.com/liverpool_dixie/alabama.htm 2007-02-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20070205025516/http://www.csa-dixie.com/liverpool_dixie/alabama.htm 5 February 2007 dead 7 August – Companies Act 1862 facilitates creation of limited liability companies. 31 August – last mail coach runs from Carlisle to Hawick, Scotland.http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page24.htm C3 – Coaching Carlisle Encyclopaedia Carlisle History 2010-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20101018185512/http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page24.htm 18 October 2010 live 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.Opening of Clifton College The Times 1862-10-02 7 24366 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.J. R. Garrard Longley, Charles Thomas (1794–1868) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16987 2010-11-19 November – criminal law amended to make robbery with violence punishable by flogging. c. November – Joseph Bazalgette begins construction of the Thames Embankment in London.The Thames Embankment The Times 1862-11-27 12 24414 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 Thomas Allan's Tyneside Songs. M. E. Braddon's 'sensation novel' Lady Audley's Secret. George Eliot's novel Romola (serialisation). Herbert Spencer's book First Principles, the first volume of his System of Synthetic Philosophy. Anthony Trollope's novel Orley Farm completes publication. Births 135px|thumb|Frederick Delius 1 January - Ethel Brilliana (Harley) Tweedie, author, travel writer, biographer, historian, journalist, photographer, and artist, writing as "Mrs. Alec Tweedie," "Mrs. Alec-Tweedie," and "Ethel B. Harley" (d. 1940) 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 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 135px|thumb|John Bird Sumner 3 January – Matthew Cotes Wyatt, painter and sculptor (b. 1777) 11 February – Elizabeth Siddal, 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)Knox, Robert (1791–1862), anatomist and ethnologist https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15787 2004 20 December 2021 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/15787 978-0-19-861412-8 Taylor Clare L. 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