Famous people died in 1834

Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer and architect, famously dubbed as the ‘Colossus of Roads’

Thomas Robert Malthus was an English economist best known for his hugely influential theories on population growth

Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and for the United States in the American Revolutionary War

Samuel Coleridge was an English lyrical poet, critic and philosopher

William Carey was an English Baptist missionary and a Baptist minister

Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, fiction writer and critic from the Romantic period