Deaths in the 1890s
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William Copeland Borlase
1848–1899 (age 51)
Highgate Cemetery
William Copeland Borlase (5 April 1848 – 31 March 1899) was a British antiquarian and Liberal politician who sat in t...
William Simpson
1823–1899 (age 76)
Highgate Cemetery
William Simpson (28 October 1823 – 17 August 1899) was a British artist, war artist and war correspondent.
John Chapman
1821–1894 (age 73)
Highgate Cemetery
John Chapman (16 June 1821 – 25 November 1894) was an English publisher who acquired the influential radical journal, ...
Anna Swanwick
1813–1899 (age 86)
Highgate Cemetery
Anna Swanwick was a respected Victorian writer and intellectual whose literary works gained recognition during her lifet...
William England
1816–1896 (age 80)
Highgate Cemetery
William England (died 1896) was a successful Victorian photographer specialising in stereoscopic photographs.
Francis Bedford
1815–1894 (age 79)
Highgate Cemetery
Francis Bedford (1815 in London – 15 May 1894) was one of England's most prominent landscape photographers and the fir...
James Drennan
1819–1892 (age 73)
Ayr
James Drennan farmed near Ayr with dedication to both the land and the community.
Frederick Wood
1807–1893 (age 86)
Rugby
Frederick Wood was a nineteenth-century land agent whose professional work contributed to property management and develo...
John Kilbourn
1838–1898 (age 60)
Walsall
John Kilbourn devoted himself to the well-being of Walsall through steady civic and charitable support.
David Roberts
1818–1897 (age 79)
Wrexham
David Roberts was a nineteenth-century writer whose literary works contributed to Victorian letters.
Anna Hanbury
1806–1897 (age 91)
Winchester Cathedral
Anna Hanbury spent her years near Winchester Cathedral, quietly supporting its worship and community life.
Henry George Hine
1811–1895 (age 84)
Highgate Cemetery
Henry George Hine (15 August 1811–16 March 1895) was an English landscape-painter and comic illustrator.
Thomas Bush Hardy
1842–1897 (age 55)
Highgate Cemetery
Thomas Bush Hardy (3 May 1842 – 15 December 1897) was a British marine painter and watercolourist.
Sophia Dobson Collet
1822–1894 (age 72)
Highgate Cemetery
Sophia Dobson Collet (1 February 1822 – 27 March 1894) was a 19th-century English feminist freethinker.
Thomas Sadler
1822–1891 (age 69)
Highgate Cemetery
Unitarian minister and writer who championed religious tolerance.
Alice Havers
1850–1890 (age 40)
Highgate Cemetery
Alice Mary Celestine Havers, married name Alice Mary Morgan (1850 – 26 August 1890, London), was an English painter an...
Henry St John, 5th Viscount Bolingbroke, 6th Viscount St John
1820–1899 (age 79)
Highgate Cemetery
Henry St John, 5th Viscount Bolingbroke (30 March 1820 – 7 November 1899) was a British peer.
John Lobb
1829–1895 (age 66)
Highgate Cemetery
John Lobb (27 December 1829 – 17 January 1895) was an English shoemaker and the founder of the companies John Lobb Boo...
George Bullen
1817–1894 (age 77)
Highgate Cemetery
George Bullen (1816,17 or 18 - 1894) was a librarian and Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum.
Henry Betty
1819–1897 (age 78)
Highgate Cemetery
Henry Betty was a nineteenth-century actor whose theatrical performances contributed to Victorian-era dramatic arts.
Emilie Venturi
1822–1893 (age 71)
Highgate Cemetery
Emilie Ashurst (Hawkes) Venturi (6 July 1821 – 16 March 1893) was an artist, writer, and activist who pushed for refor...
Charles Marshall
1806–1890 (age 84)
Highgate Cemetery
Charles Marshall was a nineteenth-century painter whose artistic works contributed significantly to Victorian visual cul...
Edward Cadogan
1833–1890 (age 57)
Wicken
Edward Cadogan (1833–1890) was a British clergyman and rower who won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
1808–1892 (age 84)
Woking
George William Wilshere Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell, (12 June 1808 – 9 May 1892), was an English judge.
George Richmond
1809–1896 (age 87)
Highgate Cemetery
George Richmond (28 March 1809 – 19 March 1896) was an English painter and portraitist.
Victor Kullberg
1824–1890 (age 66)
Highgate Cemetery
Victor Kullberg (1824–1890) was one of London's most famous watchmakers, described by one authority as "one of the mos...
Helene Demuth
1820–1890 (age 70)
Highgate Cemetery
Helene or Helena Demuth (30 December 1820 – 4 November 1890) was a German housekeeper who worked for Jenny von Westpha...
Bernard Quaritch
1819–1899 (age 80)
Highgate Cemetery
Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch ( KWORR-itch; April 23, 1819 – December 17, 1899) was a German-born British books...
Christina Rossetti
1830–1894 (age 64)
Highgate Cemetery
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and chi...
Abraham Dee Bartlett
1812–1897 (age 85)
Highgate Cemetery
Abraham Dee Bartlett (27 October 1812 – 7 May 1897) was a British taxidermist and an expert on captive animals.
Benjamin Samuel Williams
1824–1890 (age 66)
Highgate Cemetery
Benjamin Samuel Williams (2 March 1822 – 24 June 1890), English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly f...
Thomas Collier
1840–1891 (age 51)
Highgate Cemetery
Thomas Collier RI (12 November 1840 – 14 May 1891) was an English landscape painter, mainly in watercolour.
Thomas Gordon Hake
1809–1895 (age 86)
Highgate Cemetery
A lyrical writer whose gentle verse captured the sensibilities of the Victorian spirit.
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse
1809–1893 (age 84)
Highgate Cemetery
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse (6 May 1809 – 12 August 1893) was an English actuary with diverse interests in music th...
Sidney Massie
1802–1891 (age 89)
Eccleston
An artist whose careful brushwork brought quiet domestic scenes to life.
Willoughby Smith
1828–1891 (age 63)
Highgate Cemetery
Willoughby Smith (6 April 1828 – 17 July 1891) was an English electrical engineer who discovered the photoconductivity...
Thomas Archer Hirst
1830–1892 (age 62)
Highgate Cemetery
Thomas Archer Hirst FRS (22 April 1830 – 16 February 1892) was a 19th-century English mathematician, specialising in g...
Henry Moore
1831–1895 (age 64)
Highgate Cemetery
Henry Moore (7 March 1831 in York – 22 June 1895 in Margate) was an English marine and landscape painter.
William Smith
1813–1893 (age 80)
Highgate Cemetery
Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer.
John Westland Marston
1819–1890 (age 71)
Highgate Cemetery
John Westland Marston (30 January 1819 – 5 January 1890) was an English dramatist and critic.
William Scovell Savory
1826–1895 (age 69)
Highgate Cemetery
Sir William Scovell Savory, 1st Baronet (30 November 1826 – 4 March 1895) was a British surgeon.
George Palmer
1828–1892 (age 64)
Highgate Cemetery
C. Drury E. Fortnum
1820–1899 (age 79)
Highgate Cemetery
Charles Drury Edward Fortnum (1820–1899), often known as C.
Edwin Brett
1828–1895 (age 67)
Highgate Cemetery
Edwin John Brett (1828–1895) was a Victorian editor and publisher of boys' magazines, romantic fiction and "penny drea...
George Henry Kingsley
1826–1892 (age 66)
Highgate Cemetery
George Henry Kingsley (14 February 1826 – 5 February 1892) was a medical doctor, traveller and writer.
Wyatt Papworth
1822–1894 (age 72)
Highgate Cemetery
Wyatt Angelicus van Sandau Papworth (1822–1894) was an English architect, surveyor and antiquarian.
Lumb Stocks
1812–1892 (age 80)
Highgate Cemetery
Lumb Stocks (29 November 1812 – 28 April 1892) was a British engraver.
Julia Stephen
1846–1895 (age 49)
Highgate Cemetery
Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson; formerly Duckworth; 7 February 1846 – 5 May 1895) was an English Pre-Raphaelite m...
Henry Vaughan
1809–1899 (age 90)
Highgate Cemetery
Henry Vaughan (17 April 1809 – 26 November 1899) was a British art collector.
Edward John Cobbett
1815–1899 (age 84)
Highgate Cemetery