Two months after the conclusion of the Chicago trial, Anthony Comstock ( 1844 – 1915 ), a self-appointed crusader against " vice ", threatened a New York City art dealer who was displaying the painting in his window.

* Anthony Comstock ( 1844 – 1915 ), censor ( see Comstock Law )

Anthony Comstock ( March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915 ) was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality.

He also edited the Library of American Biography, in two series ( 10 and 15 vols respectively, 1834 – 1838, 1844 – 1847 ), to which he contributed the lives of Anthony Wayne, Henry Vane the Younger, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Marquette, La Salle, Count Pulaski, Jean Ribault, Charles Lee and John Ledyard, the last a reprint of his earlier work.

* Anthony Comstock, ( 1844 – 1915 ), U. S. moral reformer and namesake of the Comstock laws

In 1844, the movement spread to England, with the establishment of the London Ragged School Union under the chairmanship of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

The Giant's Causeway Tramway came about through the enthusiasm of William Atcheson Traill, M. A. Ing., of Ballylough ( 1844 – 1934 ), together with his brother Dr Anthony Traill, who between them undertook most of the promotion and fundraising for the line.

* George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough ( 1844 – 1892 ), eldest son of the 7th Duke

Stephens was re-elected from the 7th District as a Whig in 1844, 1846, and 1848, as a Unionist in 1851, and again as a Whig ( from the 8th District ) in 1853.

* George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, 7th Earl of Loudoun ( 1808 – 1844 )

He transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons later the same year, the 15th Light Dragoons in 1839, the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1840, the 14th Light Dragoons in 1841, and the 7th Dragoon Guards in 1844.

* George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway ( 1844 – 1931 )

* George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, 7th Baron Altham ( 1769 – 1844 )

Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt inherited the title and the Powerscourt estate, which comprised of land in Ireland, at the age of 8 in 1844.

She was married on the 31 July 1844 to George Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, the eldest son of the 7th Duke of Argyll.

In 1844, while living in Springfield, he defeated Lincoln for the nomination for the 7th U. S. congressional seat and was elected as a Whig.

* Der Irre von St James, rated by some the best of his novels ( written in 1844, published in 1853 ; 7th ed., 1883 )

Henry Sherwood QC ( 1807 – July 7, 1855 ) was a lawyer and Tory provincial politician, moved to municipal politics and was alderman of St. David's Ward when chosen as Toronto's 7th mayor from 1842 to 1844.

He was the second of three sons of James Hardiman Burke ( 1788-January 1854 ), an officer in the British army 7th Royal Fusiliers, and Anne Louisa Burke nee O ' Hara ( married 1817, d. 1844 ).

* Lady Julia Coke ( 1844 – 1931 ), married Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt and had issue.

* January 24 – Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough ( d. 1844 )

) ( 1844 ): Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, during his Government of the Low Countries, in the Years 1585 and 1586 Camden Society

* Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester ( 1844 – 1905 ), British nobleman and amateur cricketer

The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell ( d 1854 ), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton ( daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d. 17 / 9 / 1843 ), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng ( daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Staffford, d. 1846 ), m. 3.

* Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton ( 1844 – 1935 ), son of the 18th Earl of Morton

* Adelbert, 3rd ( and last ) Earl Brownlow ( 1844 – 1921 ).

The next creation of a title of Kent, was not that of Duke or Marquess, but rather that of Earl, with the creation of Prince Alfred ( 1844 – 1900 ), the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, as Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster, and of Kent in 1866.

These titles became extinct in 1844 upon the death of the 9th Earl.

* William Gustaf Frederick de Ginkell, 9th Earl of Athlone ( 1780 – 1844 )

Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby KG, PC, FRS ( 21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893 ), known as Lord Stanley from 1844 to 1869, was a British statesman.

* Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Earl of Zetland ( 1844 – 1929 ) ( created Marquess of Zetland in 1892 )

William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale PC, FRS ( 21 July 1787 – 4 March 1872 ), styled Viscount Lowther between 1807 and 1844, was a British Tory politician.

** Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective ( 1844 – 1893 )

* Sholto George Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton ( 1844 – 1935 )

John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough PC ( 31 August 1781 – 16 May 1847 ), known as Viscount Duncannon from 1793 to 1844, was a British Whig politician.

* Charles Augustus Stanhope, 8th Earl of Harrington ( 1844 – 1917 )

* George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton, 5th Earl of Arlington ( 1760 – 1844 )

* Francis Godolphin Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester ( 1844 – 1905 )

* Edmund Henry Pery, 2nd Baron Glentworth ( 1758 – 1844 ) ( created Earl of Limerick in 1803 )

* Edmund Henry Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick ( 1758 – 1844 )

* Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough ( 1758 – 1844 )

Richard Bruce Stopford ( 1774 – 1844 ), fourth son of the second Earl, was Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.