23 January – Charles Kingsley, novelist (born 1819) 25 January – George Myers, master builder (born 1803) 22 February – Sir Charles Lyell, geologist (born 1797) 7 March – James Hope Grant, military leader (born 1808) 22 March – Alexander Thomson, architect in the Greek Revival style (born 1817) 27 July – Connop Thirlwall, bishop (born 1797) 19 August – Robert Ellis (Cynddelw), Welsh language poet, biographer, lexicographer and Baptist minister (born 1812) 19 October – Charles Wheatstone, physicist (born 1802)