ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1819 Elias Howe, inventor of first practical sewing machine; 1888 Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks of Broughton, founder of Marks & Spencer; 1901 Barbara Cartland, novelist; 1916 Sir Edward Heath, prime minister 1970-74.

Deaths: 1797 Edmund Burke, statesman, writer; 1850 Zachary Taylor, 12th US president; 1855 Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in Crimean War; 2018 Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington KG, foreign secretary 1979-82.