1847 in the United Kingdom

none April 2014 July 2022 1847 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1847 English cricket season Events from the year 1847 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria Prime Minister – Lord John Russell (Whig) Foreign Secretary – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Events right|thumb|16 September: Shakespeare's birthplace is bought for preservation 1 January – The UK's first Medical Officer of Health is appointed, Dr. William Henry Duncan in Liverpool.Halliday S. Duncan of Liverpool: Britain's first Medical Officer Journal of Medical Biography 11 3 142–149 2003 12870037 10.1177/096777200301100307 21967666 13 January – The Irish Confederation is formed by people in the Young Ireland movement who had broken away from the Repeal Association.The Oxford companion to Irish history 2011 Oxford University Press Oxford 9780199691869 278 2nd 14 January – All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr life-boat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl. 25–27 February – 1847 University of Cambridge Chancellor election: Prince Albert is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes. 5 March – An explosion at The Oaks in the Barnsley seam in Yorkshire kills 73 men and boys.Helen Baron Duckham Great Pit Disasters: Great Britain 1700 to the present day Newton Abbot David & Charles 1973 0-7153-5717-4 15 March – A new system of county courts, with 60 judicial circuits and 491 courts, comes into operation in England and Wales under terms of the County Courts Act (28 August 1846).Polden Patrick 1999 A History of the County Court, 1846–1971 https://archive.org/details/historycountycou00pold_285 limited Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-62232-5 38 24 March – (Starting 12 midday) – National Day of Fast and Humiliation for the Great Famine (Ireland) is held across the UK by royal proclamation.National Humiliation and the Great Hunger: fast and famine in 1847 Peter Gray Irish Historical Studies 32 126 November 2000 193–216 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S002112140001484X 30006996 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006996 subscription 5 April – The world's first civic public park, Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead, Merseyside is opened.http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001110.html The History of Birkenhead Park 13 September 2007 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080626164507/http://www.wirral.gov.uk/LGCL/100006/200073/670/content_0001110.html 26 June 2008 15 April – The House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, is opened. 28 April – The brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.The Exmouth – a terrible tragedy on Islay http://www.islayinfo.com/exmouth-islay-tragedy.html Isle of Islay 2011 13 July 2012 4 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131204134917/http://www.islayinfo.com/exmouth-islay-tragedy.html deadThe Exmouth shipwreck off the Antrim Coast, Northern Ireland http://www.my-secret-northern-ireland.com/the-exmouth.html My Secret Northern Ireland May The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland is constituted.The Pocket Date Book https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 The Architectural Association School of Architecture is founded in London. 24 May – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities.Lewis Peter R. Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847 Tempus Publishing Stroud 2007 978-0-7524-4266-2 June – E. H. Booth & Co. Ltd, which becomes the Northern England supermarket chain Booths, is founded when 19-year-old tea dealer Edwin Henry Booth opens a shop called "The China House" in Blackpool. 1 June Military General Service Medal and Naval General Service Medal, the first British campaign medals, are introduced. The public school Ratcliffe College opens near Leicester as a Catholic institution. 8 June – Factory Act establishes a maximum 10-hour working day for women, and for boys aged 13–18.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 269–270 0-7126-5616-2 9 June – The public school Radley College is founded near Oxford as a High Anglican institution.The History of Radley College 1847-1947 A. K. Boyd Oxford Blackwell 1948 https://radleyarchives.co.uk/browse/histories-of-radley-college/the-history-of-radley-college-1847-1947-by-a-k-boyd-oxford-blackwell-1948 2020-11-14 1 July – Publication of Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of education in Wales containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture, and commonly known in Wales as the "Treason of the Blue Books". 14 July – Faversham guncotton explosion kills 18. 22 July – Town Police Clauses Act 1847 provides powers to regulate urban streets, some of which remain in force into the 21st century. 9 August – The Whig Party under Lord John Russell wins the general election. 13 August – John Russell Hind makes the first British discovery of an asteroid, from London, 7 Iris. On 18 October he discovers 8 Flora. 16 September William Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon (pictured) is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 The Band of Hope is established to promote teetotalism among young people by Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff in Leeds.H. Marles The Life and Labours of the Rev. Jabez Tunnicliff, Minister of the Gospel at Call Lane Chapel, Leeds, and Founder of the Band of Hope in England, obtained from authentic documents, chiefly records made by himself London Tweedies 1865 https://books.google.com/books?id=00gBAAAAQAAJ&q=Jabez+tunnicliffe+life+labours 213–219 7 May 2013Nick Brownlee 2002 This is Alcohol 99 30 September – The Vegetarian Society is formed. It remains the oldest in the world. November – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte writes the hymn Abide with Me (in its final form) at Brixham, it is first sung a few weeks later at his funeral. 4–8 November – James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, 10 November, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, 12 November.Gordon H. Laing Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870) https://books.google.com/books?id=pYer05UwKBYC 11 November 2011 2002 Minerva Group, Inc 978-1-4102-0291-8 December – The Christmas cracker is first marketed by Tom Smith of London.History of Tom Smith Crackers http://www.tomsmithcrackers.co.uk/ Tom Smith Crackers 2016-12-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20130827125125/http://www.tomsmithcrackers.co.uk/ 27 August 2013 dead 20 December – Royal Navy steam frigate Avenger 1845 is wrecked on the Sorelle Rocks in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of 246 lives and only eight survivors.Gilly William Octavius Shakespeare Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1849 John W. Parker 1850 London https://books.google.com/books?id=pDsIAAAAQAAJ 22 December – The art collector Robert Vernon presents the Vernon Gift of artworks to the National Gallery. This forms the basis of the Gallery's collection of British paintings, many of which are now in the Tate Britain.Gifts and bequests Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/collection/gifts-and-bequests https://web.archive.org/web/20171008080636/http://www.tate.org.uk:80/about-us/collection/gifts-and-bequests 2026-08-01 2017-10-08 Undated Ongoing – Great Famine (Ireland): this summer's potato crop is free from blight, but inadequate due to the small area sown.Moody, T.W. Martin, F.X. 1967 The Course of Irish History Mercier Press Cork 376 The British Relief Association is founded and raises money throughout England, the United States and Australia to relieve distress, with the help of the "Queen's Letters", two letters from Queen Victoria appealing for assistance.Christine Kinealy This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52 https://archive.org/details/thisgreatcalamit00kine registration Dublin Gill & Macmillan 1994 0-7171-1832-0 Panic of 1847: A crisis in the banking sector prompted largely by the collapse of Railway Mania. On 25 October the Bank Charter Act 1844 is suspended.The ghost of crises past, present and future: The Bank Charter Act goes on trial in 1847 https://bankunderground.co.uk/2016/12/19/the-ghost-of-crises-past-present-and-future-the-bank-charter-act-goes-on-trial-in-1847/ 2016-12-19 Bank Underground 2020-11-14 Publications Anne Brontë's novel Agnes Grey under the pen name of Acton Bell. Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights under the pen name of Ellis Bell. Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre under the pen name of Currer Bell.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860 13 September 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817165102/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1840-1860 17 August 2007 dead Benjamin Disraeli's "Young England" novel Tancred. Thomas Guthrie's tract A Plea for Ragged Schools. Frederick Marryat's children's historical novel The Children of the New Forest. Christina Rossetti's Verses by Christina G. Rossetti. Alfred Tennyson's poetry collection The Princess: a medley. William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair. Births 20 January – William Baldock, cricketer (died 1923) 9 February – Hugh Price Hughes, theologian and social reformer (died 1902) 10 February – A. N. Hornby, sportsman (died 1925) 13 February – Sir Robert McAlpine, builder (died 1930) 16 February – Thomas Andrews, metallurgical chemist (died 1907) 20 February – Reginald Alexander, physician (died 1916) 28 February – William Heap Bailey, Scottish footballer (died 1926) 3 March – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (died 1922) 8 March William Bosomworth, English county cricketer (died 1891) John Lister, politician and philanthropist (died 1933) 22 March – Alfred Bayliss, English-American educator (died 1911) 2 April – Flora Annie Steel, writer (died 1929) 27 April – Walter Simon Andrews, policeman (Whitechapel murders) (died 1899) 7 May – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1929) 19 May – Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort, aristocrat (died 1924) 5 June – Sir Eric Barrington, civil servant (died 1918) 9 June – John Romilly Allen, archaeologist (died 1907) 11 June – Dame Milicent Fawcett, suffragist and feminist (died 1929) 19 June – Robert Barker, footballer (died 1915) 24 June – Robert Bickersteth, politician (died 1916) 13 July – Sir George Atkinson-Willes, Royal Navy admiral (died 1921) 24 July Harry Anstey, English metallurgist and gold prospector (died 1921) Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, artistocrat and army officer (died 1918) 31 July – James Allen Harker, entomologist (died 1894) 6 August – Laurence George Bomford, artist (died 1926) 11 August – Sir Harry Barron, army officer and Governor of Tasmania (1909-1913) and Western Australia (1913-1917) (died 1921) 28 August – Sir George Bonham, 2nd Baronet, diplomat (died 1927) 30 August – Morton Betts, footballer (died 1914) 1 September – Archibald Kennedy, 3rd Marquess of Ailsa, aristocrat (died 1938) 14 September – William Edward Ayrton, physicist and electrical engineer (died 1908) 24 September – William Edward Briggs, politician (died 1903) 25 September – Edward Austin, cricketer (died 1891) 1 October – Annie Besant, née Wood, Theosophist, social and political campaigner and feminist (died 1933) 17 October – Sir Jervoise Baines, colonial civil servant (died 1925) 24 October – Sir John Bonser, colonial judge, Chief Justice of Ceylon (died 1914) 4 November – William Allen, English-born Australian Congregational clergyman (died 1919) 8 November Charles Alexander, cricketer (died 1902) Bram Stoker, novelist (died 1912)Bram Stoker Irish writer Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bram-Stoker Encyclopædia Britannica 9 January 2022 en 23 November – Walter Biggar Blaikie, astronomer, engineer, historian and printer (died 1928) 25 November – George W. Anson, actor (died 1920) 5 December – Francis Baker, cricketer (died 1901) 6 December – John Elmes Beale, politician and merchant (died 1928) 9 December – George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (died 1912) 18 December – Sir William Acland, 2nd Baronet, admiral (died 1924) 27 December – Ferdinand Begg, Scottish stockbroker and politician (died 1926) Deaths 11 February – Macvey Napier, lawyer and encyclopaedia editor (born 1776) 13 February – Sharon Turner, historian (born 1768) 9 March – Mary Anning, palaeontologist (born 1799) 7 June – David Mushet, metallurgist (born 1772) 29 August – William Simson, painter (born 1800) 3 September – Simon Goodrich, mechanical engineer, in Portugal (born 1773) 3 October – Charles Hatchett, chemist (born 1765) 20 November – Henry Francis Lyte, hymn-writer (born 1793) 7 December – Robert Liston, surgeon (born 1794) 29 December – William Crotch, composer (born 1775) References 2 1847 Category:Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom Category:1847 by country Category:1847 in Europe Category:1840s in the United Kingdom