1828 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom-related events during the year of 1828
Events from the year 1828 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
The Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister for the first time.
Events
Ongoing events
Undated
Publications
Births
12 February – George Meredith , novelist and poet (died 1909)
18 March – Randal Cremer , politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1908)
4 April – Mrs. Oliphant , born Margaret Wilson, Scottish-born novelist and historical writer (died 1897)
20 April – Josephine Butler , social reformer (died 1906)
12 May – Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet (died 1882)
20 June – John Wharlton Bunney , Pre-Raphaelite topographical and landscape painter (died 1882)
23 July – Jonathan Hutchinson , surgeon (died 1913)
1 September – Anthony Hoskins , admiral (died 1901)
31 October – Joseph Swan , physicist and chemist (died 1914)
William Robert Woodman , co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (died 1891)
Deaths
26 January – Lady Caroline Lamb , novelist (born 1785)
3 February – Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet , admiral (born 1760)
7 February – Henry Neele , poet and scholar (born 1798)
28 March – Frances Burney , dramatist (born 1776)
16 May – William Congreve , inventor, rocket pioneer (born 1772)
28 May – Anne Seymour Damer , sculptor, author and actress (born 1748)
11 June – Dugald Stewart , Scottish Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
21 July – Charles Manners-Sutton , Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805 (born 1755)
28 September – Richard Parkes Bonington , landscape painter (born 1802, tuberculosis)
8 November – Thomas Bewick , wood-engraver and writer on natural history (born 1753)
4 December – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , statesman, Prime Minister 1812–1827 (born 1770)
22 December – William Hyde Wollaston , chemist (born 1766)
William Billingsley , porcelain painter (born 1758)
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