1808 in The United Kingdom - Births

Births

• 20 March - Charles Henry Cooper, antiquarian (died 1866)
• 22 March - Caroline Norton, campaigner for married women's rights (died 1877)
• 27 April - William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, politician (died 1891)
• 2 May - Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin (died 1896)
• 12 May - Edwin Abbott, educator (died 1882)
• 30 May - Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian (died 1877)
• 12 June - George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell, judge (died 1892)
• 11 June - James Ballantine, artist and author (died 1877)
• 19 June - Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon, politician (died 1884)
• 1 July - Henry Doubleday, entomologist and ornithologist (died 1875)
• 15 July - Henry Cole, civil servant (died 1882)
• 30 July - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, composer and cellist (died 1896)
• 19 August - James Nasmyth, engineer (died 1890)
• 24 August - William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (died 1884)
• 5 September - Arthur William Buller, Member of Parliament (died 1869)
• 15 September - John Hutton Balfour, botanist (died 1884)
• 6 November - Thomas Legh Claughton, academic, poet and clergyman (died 1892)
• 22 November - Thomas Cook, travel entrepreneur (died 1892)
• 15 December - Henry Fothergill Chorley, critic (died 1872)
• Undated - William Cureton, Orientalist (died 1864)