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UK-related events during the year of 1875
Events from the year 1875 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
Trial by Jury
Publications
Births
4 January –
William Williams , Welsh poet and Archdruid (died 1968)
6 February –
Cyril Garbett , Anglican prelate,
Archbishop of York (died 1955)
1 April –
Edgar Wallace , born Richard Horatio Edgar, writer (died 1932)
12 May –
Charles Holden , architect (died 1960)
31 May –
Rosa May Billinghurst , women's suffrage activist (died 1953)
9 June –
Henry Hallett Dale , pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
15 August –
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , composer (died 1912)
26 August –
John Buchan , novelist and politician (died 1940)
10 September –
John Evans , Welsh politician (died 1961)
18 September –
Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond , watercolourist (died 1970)
26 September –
Eric Geddes , transport manager and politician (died 1937)
12 October –
Aleister Crowley , occultist (died 1947)
26 October – Sir
Lewis Casson , actor and theatre director (died 1969)
3 December –
Clara Rackham , women's suffrage activist (died 1966)
6 December –
Evelyn Underhill , writer on Christian mysticism (died 1941)
9 December –
Grace Hadow , activist for women's advancement (died 1940)
20 December –
T. F. Powys , Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)
Deaths
23 January –
Charles Kingsley , novelist (born 1819)
25 January –
George Myers , master builder (born 1803)
22 February – Sir
Charles Lyell , Scottish geologist (born 1797)
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7 March
22 March –
Alexander Thomson , architect in the Greek Revival style (born 1817)
3 April –
William Gibbs , businessman, richest commoner (born 1790)
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1 May –
Alfred Stevens , sculptor (born 1817)
22 May –
John Sinclair , Archdeacon of Middlesex (born 1797)
29 June –
Henry Doubleday , entomologist and ornithologist (born 1808)
27 July –
Connop Thirlwall , bishop (born 1797)
19 August –
Robert Ellis (Cynddelw) , Welsh language poet, biographer, lexicographer and Baptist minister (born 1812)
9 September –
Sir Charles Elliot , admiral, diplomat and colonial administrator (died 1875)
19 October –
Sir Charles Wheatstone , physicist (born 1802)
29 October –
John Gardner Wilkinson , traveller, writer and Egyptologist (born 1797)
27 November –
Richard Christopher Carrington , astronomer (born 1826)
23 December –
Charles Frederick , admiral, Third Sea Lord (born 1797)
25 December –
Young Tom Morris , Scottish golfer (born 1851)
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