1833 in the United Kingdom explained
Events from the year 1833 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
- 23 January – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1907)
- 28 January – Charles George Gordon, British army officer and administrator (died 1885)
- 27 July – Thomas George Bonney, geologist (d. 1923)
- 12 August – Aylmer Cameron, VC recipient (d. 1909)
- 26 August – Henry Fawcett, statesman, economist and Postmaster General (d. 1884)
- 28 August – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Anglo-Welsh artist (d. 1898)
- 4 November – James James, harpist and composer of the Welsh national anthem (d. 1902)
- 11 December – Francis E. Anstie, physician and medical researcher (d. 1874)
Deaths
- 9 January – Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (b. 1757)
- 23 January – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, admiral (b. 1757)
- 16 April – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (b. 1772)
- 22 April – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-born inventor, mechanical engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive (b. 1771)
- 15 May
- 2 June – Simon Byrne, prizefighter (b. 1806)
- 10 July – George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, politician and man of letters (b. 1797)
- 29 July – William Wilberforce, abolitionist (b. 1759)
- 27 September – Ram Mohan Roy, Bengali reformer (b. 1772)
- 11 November – James Grant, navigator (b. 1772)
- 3 December – Adam Buck, Irish-born neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (b. 1759)
Notes and References
- Book: Whyte, Iain. Zachary Macaulay 1768-1838: The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement. Liverpool University Press. 2011.
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
- Web site: Perry. Butler. Keble, John (1792–1866). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. Online. 2014-05-16.
- Web site: Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840. 2007-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20070922055840/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1820-1840. 22 September 2007. dead.
- News: Dreadful Shipwreck Off Boulogne. The Times. London, England. 1833-09-04. 5. 2018-04-27.
- Web site: A brief history of banknotes. 2007-10-08. Bank of England.
- Goldsmid. 12. 214.
- Book: Gately. Iain. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol. limited. 2009. Gotham Books. New York. 978-1-592-40464-3. 248.
- Book: Robson, John. The Fiat and Finger of God: The Bridgewater Treatises. Lightman, Bernard . Frank Turner . Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief. registration. 1990.