1824 in the United Kingdom

Contents

• Incumbents
• Events
• Undated
• Ongoing
• Publications
• Births
• Deaths
• References
• Further reading

Events from the year 1824 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV
• Prime Minister – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Tory)
• Home Secretary – Robert Peel
• Foreign Secretary – George Canning
• Secretary of War – Lord Bathurst

Events

• 8 January – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only two votes against him.
• 22 January – First Anglo-Ashanti War: Battle of Nsamankow – forces of the Ashanti Empire crush British forces in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy.
• 20 February – Rev. Professor William Buckland becomes the first person to describe a terrestrial dinosaur in a scientific journal. ^[1]
• 4 March – Sir William Hillary founds the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, after 1854 known as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. ^[2]
• 5 March – First Anglo-Burmese War begins.
• 17 March – Anglo-Dutch Treaty signed in London.
• 2 April – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London which opens to the public in his former townhouse on 10 May. ^[3]
• 7 April – The Mechanics' Institute, predecessor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, is founded.
• May–July – King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and his Queen Consort Kamāmalu make a state visit to London, where they both die of measles before they can meet George IV.
• 10 May – First Burmese War: the British take Rangoon.
• 16 June – Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established. ^{[4] [5]}
• 17 June – The Weights and Measures Act ^[6] legally abolishes use of many traditional measures in favour of Imperial units.
• 21 June – The Vagrancy Act for the first time makes begging or sleeping in the street criminal offences in England. ^[7]
• 7 August – First Anglo-Ashanti War ends when forces of the Ashanti Empire flee the field. ^[8]
• 13 September – With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity , John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what becomes Redcliffe City, Queensland in Australia, after leaving Sydney.
• 21 September – The Norfolk and Norwich Festival is inaugurated as a triennial event.
• 10 October – Edinburgh Town Council makes a decision to found a municipal fire brigade under James Braidwood, the first in Britain. ^[9]
• 15–21 November – Great Fire of Edinburgh, starting in Old Assembly Close, kills 11 residents and 2 firemen, and destroys 24 tenements, leaving 400 families homeless, and other properties, including the spire of Tron Kirk.
• 23 November – Great storm in the English Channel; The Cobb (Lyme Regis) and Chesil Beach are breached. ^[10]

Publications

• 24 January – first issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review .
• James Hogg's novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (anonymously).
• Thomas Moore's satirical novel Memoirs of Captain Rock
• James Justinian Morier's satirical novel The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
• Sir Walter Scott's historical novel Redgauntlet (anonymously).

Births

• 8 January – Wilkie Collins, novelist (died 1889)
• 15 January – Anna Mary Howitt, writer, painter and feminist (died 1884)
• 7 February – William Huggins, astronomer (died 1910)
• 10 February – Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer (died 1898)
• 19 March – William Allingham, author (died 1889)
• 20 June – George Edmund Street, architect (died 1881)
• 26 June – William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer (died 1907)
• 6 July – Richard Meux Benson, founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist (died 1915)
• 27 October – Edward Maitland, humanitarian writer and occultist (died 1897)
• 10 December – George MacDonald, Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister (died 1905)

Deaths

• 1 February – John Lemprière, classical scholar (born c. 1765 in Jersey)
• 30 March – Thomas Maurice, poet and scholar (born 1754)
• 13 April – Jane Taylor, poet and novelist (born 1783)
• 19 April – Lord Byron, poet (born 1788)
• 26 May – Capel Lofft, writer (born 1751)
• 25 July – William Sharp, engraver (born 1749)
• 23 September – John Cartwright, political reformer (born 1740)
• 10 October – Thomas Thorne, fictitious poet
• 17 October – Elizabeth Cobbold, poet (born 1767)
• 30 October – Charles Robert Maturin, Irish writer (born 1773)
• 30 November – Henry Fauntleroy, forger executed for fraud (born 1784)
• 21 December – James Parkinson, surgeon (born 1755)
• Undated – William Howgill, organist and composer (born 1768/9)

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References

Further reading

• New Annual Register...for 1824, London: J. Holdsworth, 1825, pp. 6 v