Deaths in the 1890s

Sarah Thorne

1836–1899 (age 63)

Brompton Cemetery

Sarah Thorne (10 May 1836 – 27 February 1899) was a British actress and actress-manager of the 19th century who manage...

Stanisław Julian Ostroróg

1830–1890 (age 60)

Brompton Cemetery

Count Stanisław Julian Ostroróg (January 1836 – 31 May 1890) was an exiled Polish nobleman and Crimean War veteran.

Thomas Cundy III

1821–1895 (age 74)

Brompton Cemetery

Thomas Cundy III ( Thomas de Candie, 17 October 1821 – 4 November 1895) was a British architect.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

1840–1899 (age 59)

Brookwood Cemetery

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (14 October 1840 – 22 March 1899), also known as G.W.

Charles Thomas Marvin

1854–1890 (age 36)

Plumstead

Charles Thomas Marvin (1854–1890), was a British author and Foreign Office employee, whose public disclosure of govern...

George Yule

1829–1892 (age 63)

Stonehaven

George Yule (17 April 1829 – 26 March 1892) was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth Pres...

Robert Romanes

1898–1898 (age 0)

Lauder

Robert Romanes, a Lauder-born writer, preserved the spirit of rural Scotland with warm and observant prose.

John Hulke

1830–1895 (age 65)

Deal

John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS (6 November 1830 – 19 February 1895) was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil coll...

James Brunlees

1816–1892 (age 76)

Brookwood Cemetery

Sir James Brunlees FRSE MICE (1816 – 1892) was a Scottish civil engineer.

James Robert Longden

1827–1891 (age 64)

Brookwood Cemetery

Sir James Robert Longden (7 July 1827 – 4 October 1891) was an English colonial administrator.

Jasper Wilson Johns

1824–1891 (age 67)

Brookwood Cemetery

Jasper Wilson Johns (1824 – 26 July 1891) was a civil engineer, merchant, railway promoter and Liberal Party politici...

Louis Mallet

1823–1890 (age 67)

Brookwood Cemetery

Sir Louis Mallet CB PC (14 March 1823 – 16 February 1890) was a British civil servant who was an advocate of free trad...

Robert Coote

1820–1898 (age 78)

Brookwood Cemetery

Admiral Robert Coote (1 June 1820 – 17 March 1898) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Chi...

Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer

1819–1899 (age 80)

Brookwood Cemetery

Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer (24 June 1819 – 11 October 1899), was an English civil servant, statistician an...

William Forsyth

1812–1899 (age 87)

Brookwood Cemetery

William Forsyth QC (25 October 1812 – 26 December 1899) was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Member of Parliament (M...

Helen Spurrell

1819–1891 (age 72)

Hove

William Chatterton Dix

1837–1898 (age 61)

Cheddar

William Chatterton Dix (14 June 1837 – 9 September 1898) was an English writer of hymns and carols.

Charles Leeson Prince

1821–1899 (age 78)

Uckfield

George Webbe Dasent

1817–1896 (age 79)

Piccadilly

Sir George Webbe Dasent, D.

Polydore de Keyser

1832–1898 (age 66)

Nunhead Cemetery

Sir Polydore de Keyser (13 December 1832 – 14 January 1898), was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Refor...

Jenny Hill

1848–1896 (age 48)

Nunhead Cemetery

Jenny Hill (c.

Joseph Tomlinson

1823–1894 (age 71)

Nunhead Cemetery

Joseph Tomlinson (11 November 1823 – 22 April 1894) was a British railway engineer, and executive.

Thomas Tilling

1825–1893 (age 68)

Nunhead Cemetery

Thomas Tilling forged a trusted transport legacy in Victorian London, remembered for service and steadiness.

Bryan Donkin

1809–1893 (age 84)

Nunhead Cemetery

Bryan Donkin was a notable civil engineer whose nineteenth-century career advanced infrastructure development.

Catherine Gage

1815–1892 (age 77)

Rathlin Island

Catherine Gage (18 May 1815 – 16 February 1892) was an Irish botanist, botanical and ornithological illustrator.

John Severne

1826–1899 (age 73)

Westbury

John Edmund Severne (24 April 1826 – 21 April 1899) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Com...

Ralph Ludlow Lopes

1820–1898 (age 78)

Melksham

Ralph Ludlow Lopes combined legal skill with a gentle sense of duty in service to Wiltshire communities.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

1820–1894 (age 74)

Ottery St Mary

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal po...

James Anthony Froude

1818–1894 (age 76)

Salcombe

James Anthony Froude ( FROOD; 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and ed...

William Connor Magee

1821–1891 (age 70)

Peterborough Cathedral

William Connor Magee (17 December 1821 – 5 May 1891) was an Irish clergyman of the Anglican church, Bishop of Peterbor...

Alexander Parkes

1813–1890 (age 77)

West Norwood Cemetery

Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813 – 29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England.

Paul Reuter

1816–1899 (age 83)

West Norwood Cemetery

Paul Julius Reuter (born Israel Beer Josaphat; 21 July 1816 – 25 February 1899), later ennobled as Freiherr von Reuter...

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892 (age 58)

West Norwood Cemetery

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher.

Henry Bessemer

1813–1898 (age 85)

West Norwood Cemetery

Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most...

John Alexander Reina Newlands

1837–1898 (age 61)

West Norwood Cemetery

John Alexander Reina Newlands (26 November 1837 – 29 July 1898) was a British chemist who worked concerning the period...

Sir Henry Tate

1819–1899 (age 80)

West Norwood Cemetery

Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (11 March 1819 – 5 December 1899) was a British sugar merchant, sugar-baker and philanthro...

James Henry Greathead

1844–1896 (age 52)

West Norwood Cemetery

James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 – 21 October 1896) was an English mechanical and civil engineer renowned for his ...

William Frederick Woodington

1806–1893 (age 87)

West Norwood Cemetery

William Frederick Woodington (10 February 1806 – 24 December 1893) was an English painter and sculptor.

William Mattieu Williams

1820–1892 (age 72)

West Norwood Cemetery

William Mattieu Williams (6 February 1820 – 28 November 1892) was an English writer on science and education.

Henry Doulton

1820–1897 (age 77)

West Norwood Cemetery

Sir Henry Doulton (25 July 1820 – 18 November 1897) was an English businessman, inventor and manufacturer of pottery, ...

John Jenkins Cole

1815–1897 (age 82)

West Norwood Cemetery

John Jenkins Cole was an architect of measured taste whose careful designs served communities with grace.

James Stiff

1808–1897 (age 89)

West Norwood Cemetery

James Stiff (1808–18 May 1897) was an English potter.

Francis Wyatt Truscott

1824–1895 (age 71)

West Norwood Cemetery

Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott (24 November 1824 – 3 March 1895) was Lord Mayor of London in 1879–80, a member of the Wo...

C. Pierpoint Johnson

1826–1893 (age 67)

West Norwood Cemetery

Jane Allnutt

1818–1892 (age 74)

West Norwood Cemetery

Jane Allnutt is remembered for her quiet devotion to family and community in South London.

Alexander Watt

1823–1892 (age 69)

West Norwood Cemetery

Thomas Willert Beale

1828–1894 (age 66)

West Norwood Cemetery

Thomas Willert Beale (1828 – 3 October 1894) was an English miscellaneous writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym W...

Thomas Henry Huxley

1825–1895 (age 70)

East Finchley Cemetery

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in compara...

Henry Walter Bates

1825–1892 (age 67)

East Finchley Cemetery

Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825 – 16 February 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scie...

Anne Pratt

1806–1893 (age 87)

East Grinstead

Anne Pratt (5 December 1806 – 27 July 1893) was a botanical and ornithological illustrator and author from Strood, Ke...