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Events from the year 1876 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Monarch – Victoria
Prime Minister – Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative)
Events
1 January – the Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the first registered trademark symbol, under the Trade Mark Registration Act 1875.http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=1 United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
April – the Royal Titles Act 1876 (introduced by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Benjamin Disraeli) grants Queen Victoria the title of Empress of India from 1877.1876 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006
7 April – Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, becomes Viceroy of India.
1 May – the Settle-Carlisle Railway is opened to passenger traffic.John Gough The Midland Railway: a chronology Gwernymynydd Railway and Canal Historical Society 2nd 1989 0-901461-12-1 183
16 May
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects the Berlin Memorandum.
Adam Worth steals the Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in Old Bond Street, London three weeks after its sale at Christie's for 10,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction at this time.Macintyre Ben Ben Macintyre The Disappearing Duchess https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/magazine/the-disappearing-duchess.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm 2013-05-30 The New York Times 1994-07-31 It is not recovered until 1901.
24 May – Challenger expedition returns to Portsmouth.Rice A. L. Understanding the Oceans: Marine Science in the Wake of HMS Challenger London Routledge 1999 27–48 The Challenger Expedition 978-1-85728-705-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=F5agn3NSzEoC&pg=PA27
13 July – the prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.
August
The Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, is made Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.
The Medical Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 41) repeals the previous Medical Act in the United Kingdom and enables every university or other body in the United Kingdom entitled to grant qualifications for registration to grant such qualifications to all people without distinction of sex.http://www.thepotteries.org/dates/education.htm Key dates in Education Great Britain 1000-1899 Thepotteries.org 2015-07-03The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command https://books.google.com/books?id=DKgTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40 1892 H.M. Stationery Office 40–
15 August – Elementary Education Act 1876 ("Sandon's Act") prevents employment of children under 10; permits local attendance committees to impose compulsory school attendance for ages 5–13; and authorises poor law guardians to pay school fees for the poor and destitute under a system of certificates.Education in England: a history Derek Gillard 2018 https://education-uk.org/history/timeline.html HDA 2020-10-24
5 September – William Gladstone's Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet is published.
7 October – first greyhound race to use an artificial hare is held, at Hendon.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 299–300 0-7126-5616-2
10 December – the "observant stranger" Henry James arrives at Folkestone and subsequently (12 Dec) takes lodgings at 3 Bolton Street, LondonHenry James. The Conquest of London:1870-1881. Leon Edel Volume II, 0-380-39651-3
Undated
Charles Wells opens his brewery based in Bedford.
The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland is founded.
Mary Sumner founds Christian women's organisation the Mothers' Union.
Port Vale Football Club is formed.
Stourbridge Football Club is formed.
Saracens F.C. is formed in London as a rugby union club.
Warrington Wolves is formed as Warrington Zingari F.C., a rugby league club.
Stockport Lacrosse Club, thought to be the oldest existing lacrosse club in the world, is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester, where they will still be playing in the 21st century.
Henry Wickham smuggles rubber seeds out of Brazil leading to the eventual collapse of the Amazon rubber boom.
Grey squirrel introduced to England at Henbury Park, Cheshire.
Publications
Isabella Banks' novel The Manchester Man.
Walter Besant and James Rice's novel The Golden Butterfly.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public 2nd London Chatto & Windus 1965
Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark.
George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda.
Anthony Trollope's book The Prime Minister, fifth of the Palliser novels.
Births
13 January – Florence Sulman, author and educationalist (died 1965 in Australia)Henry Margaret Sulman, Florence (1876–1965) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sulman-florence-8713 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 9 September 2022 en
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
Charles Hamilton, children's story writer (died 1961)
Sophia Duleep Singh, Princess and suffragette (died 1948)
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)
Deaths
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
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