Weir met James McNeill Whistler in London before returning to New York City in 1877.

The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).

In 1877 the painter James Whistler, himself a connoisseur of Japanese prints, commissioned Godwin to build him a house in Tite Street, Chelsea, which Godwin completed the following year, in spite of its being initially objected to by The Metropolitan Board of Works.

In 1877, after his father's death, Custis Lee sued in a case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court to regain title to the family mansion, Arlington House and plantation, which had become Arlington Cemetery.

His unflinching style gained a large audience for first his reporting, and later his personal weekly journal, Truth ( started in 1877 ), which was often sued for libel.

Johann Georg Baiter ( May 31, 1801 – October 10, 1877 ) was a Swiss philologist and textual critic.

Rudolf Gottschall Gottschall since 1877 ( 30 September 1823 in Breslau – 21 March 1909 in Leipzig ) was a German poet, dramatist, literary critic and literary historian.

Sir ( Charles Otto ) Desmond MacCarthy ( 1877 – 1952 ) was a British literary critic and journalist.

* November 28-Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher ( died 1877 )

On May 3, 1905, Anne Sullivan married a Harvard University instructor and literary critic, John Albert Macy ( 1877 – 1932 ), who had helped Keller with her publications.

In 1875, Stephens began to characterise himself as an art historian rather than a critic and in 1877 he started to write contributions for the Grosvenor Gallery catalogues, which he continued to do until 1890.

At age 57 Pratt married a sixteen year old girl, his tenth wife Margaret Graham, younger than his daughter Celestia, causing his first wife Sarah, an outspoken critic of polygamy, to lash out in an 1877 interview,

Harley Granville-Barker ( born Harley Granville Barker ; stage name, Granville Barker ; hyphenated surname adopted later ; born 25 November 1877, London, died 31 August 1946, Paris ) was an English actor-manager, director, producer, critic and playwright.

* Justice ( 1877 ), in three acts, characterized by a hostile critic as a hymn in praise of suicide

* Music critic Gustav Kobbé ( Class of 1877 );

Sergey Konstantinovich Makovsky (; 1877 — 1962 ), a son of the painter Konstantin Makovsky, was a poet, arts critic, and organiser of many art expositions.

James Evershed Agate ( 9 September 1877 – 6 June 1947 ) was a British diarist and critic.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

* John Polding ( 1794 – 1877 )

The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

John Tenniel's " Our New ' First Lord ' at Sea " for the 13 October 1877 issue

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By this time the torpedo boat, the first of which had been built at the shipyards of Sir John Thornycroft in 1877, had gained recognition for its effectiveness, and the first torpedo boat destroyers ( later simply destroyers ) were built to counter it.

There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.

* July 2 – John R. Goldsborough, United States Navy commodore ( d. 1877 )

Russia preparing to let slip the " Dogs of War ," its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ) | conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( United Kingdom | Britain ) warns Russia to take care.

* John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( 1805 – 1877 ), American author

He became a member of the Royal Institution and later, replaced Dr. John Hall Gladstone in the role of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in 1877.

A sick child brought into the Temple of Asclepeion | Asclepieion, by John William Waterhouse | Waterhouse ( 1877 )

In 1877, John Harvey Kellogg, operator of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, invented a biscuit made of ground-up wheat, oat, and cornmeal for his patients suffering from bowel problems.

* John Watson ( footballer born 1877 ), Scottish association football player

* In 1877, John Wesley Hardin was arrested on a train in Pensacola, Florida by Texas Rangers and a local authority while traveling under the alias James W. Swain.

The county was named for " Colonel " John Lawrence who came to the county as first treasurer in 1877.

William was the brother of Lt .- Col. John Charles Tufnell of Bath ( leased Lackham House, Laycock in Wiltshire in 1877 ), banker, m. 1796 Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell ( d. 29 / 1 / 1848 ) daughter of John Fowell of Bishopbourne ).

* John R. Kissinger ( 1877 – 1946 ), Congressional Medal of Honor and was featured in the movie, Yellow Jack.

Ruskin, who had been a champion of the Pre-Raphaelites and J. M. W. Turner, reviewed Whistler's work in his publication Fors Clavigera on July 2, 1877.

Whatever the cause, her death was tragic and it is generally credited with causing the onset of bouts of insanity in Ruskin from around 1877.