Anniversarial — 2011
1811
The French Empire is near its peak, though the war in the Iberian Peninsula has reached a stalemate. George III, dangerously ill, accepts the Regency Act, appointing his son, George, Prince of Wales, as Prince Regent. By the end of the year the king had succumbed to dementia, living out his days in Windsor Castle, where he died in 1820. 1811 saw the rise of the Luddite movement: textile artisans upset with changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Also that year, Jane Austin's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, appeared under the pseudonym, "By A Lady".
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2011:
Births
- Browne, Reverend Doctor Edward Harold, bishop of Winchester (born 1811–died 1891), English — churchman
Deaths
- Barthès de Marmorières, Antoine (born 1736–died 1811), Swiss — diplomat, army officer
- Bourgoing, Jean François (born 1748–died 1811), French — diplomat
- Brooke, Colonel Robert (born 1744–died 1811), Irish — soldier, East India Company official, colonial governor, army officer
- Campbell, Arthur (born 1743–died 1811), American — politician, speculator
- Carr, Martha Jefferson [née Jefferson] (born 1746–died 1811), American — home-maker
- Chalgrin, Jean François Thérèse (born 1739–died 1811), French — architect
- Chase, Samuel (born 1741–died 1811), American — politician, judge
- Chénier, Marie Joseph Blaise (born 1764–died 1811), French — author, playwright, politician
- Chiniac de La Bastide Du Claux, Pierre de (born 1741–died 1811), French — judge, historian
- Clason, Patrick (died 1811), Scottish — school teacher, tutor, schoolteacher
- Coltman, Elizabeth [née Cartwright] (born 1737–died 1811), English — graphic artist
- Cranch, Richard (born 1726–died 1811), American — glassmaker, politician, tradesman
- Dana, Francis (born 1743–died 1811), American — unknown occupation
- Devosges, François (born 1732–died 1811), French — painter, sculptor, educational founder, school teacher
- Duncan, Jonathan (born 1756–died 1811), Scottish — merchant, East India Company official, colonial governor
- Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville (born 1742–died 1811), Scottish — lawyer, civil servant, politician, member of Parliament
- Du Plaquet, Charles Vincent, abbé Du Plaquet (born 1730–died 1811), French — politician, churchman
- Emory, Charles (born c. 1750–died 1811), American — colonist, plantation owner, politician, civil servant, surveyor
- Esménard, Joseph Alphonse (born 1769–died 1811), French — royalist, journalist, politician, poet
- Fischer, Emmanuel Friedrich von (born 1732–died 1811), Swiss — publisher, politician
- Fitzroy, Augustus Henry, 3rd duke of Grafton (born 1735–died 1811), English — aristocrat, government minister, prime minister
- Fitzsimons, Thomas (born 1741–died 1811), American — army officer, merchant, politician
- Gjörwell, Carl Christoffer (born 1731–died 1811), Swedish — librarian, journalist, archivist
- Herbert, Henry, 1st earl of Carnarvon (born 1741–died 1811), English — aristocrat, politician, member of Parliament
- Hill, Joseph (born 1733–died 1811), English — lawyer, patron
- Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de (born 1744–died 1811), Spanish — author, playwright, poet
- Laujon, Pierre (born 1727–died 1811), French — author, poet, songwriter, academy member
- The Monthly Mirror (founded 1795–disbanded 1811), English — newspaper
- Nairne, Sir William, Lord Dunsinane (born 1731–died 1811), Scottish — unknown occupation
- Ogilvy, James, 7th earl of Findlater and 4th of Seafield (born 1750–died 1811), Scottish — aristocrat, garden designer, philanthropist
- Pahin de la Blancherie, Claude Mammès (born 1752–died 1811), French — collector
- Percy, Reverend Doctor Thomas, bishop of Dromore (born 1729–died 1811), English — churchman, poet, collector
- Rodgers, John (born 1727–died 1811), American — churchman, Presbyterian
- Rodney, Thomas (born 1744–died 1811), American — colonist, plantation owner, lawyer, politician
- Saladin, Antoine (born 1725–died 1811), Swiss — banker, civil servant
- Saussure, Victor Benjamin Vespasien de (born 1737–died 1811), Swiss — lawyer, judge, civil servant
- Stanhope, Grizel, Countess Stanhope [née Hamilton] (born 1719–died 1811), English — aristocrat
- Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm von (born 1735–died 1811), German — government minister, diplomat
- Williams, William (born 1731–died 1811), American — merchant, lawyer, politician