1906 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
- 8 February â the Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority. The Conservatives lose 246 seats, including that of their leader, Arthur Balfour.
- 10 February â HMS Dreadnought, the first all-big-gun battleship, is launched at Portsmouth and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
- 15 February â representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
- 10 March â Bakerloo line of the London Underground opened.[1]
- 15 March â Rolls-Royce Limited is registered as a car manufacturer.
- 22 March â first international rugby match. England defeats France 25â8.[2]
- 21 April â Manchester United F.C., known as Newton Heath until four years ago, secure promotion to the Football League First Division.[3]
- 15 May â Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London.[4]
- 26 May â opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.[1]
- 30 May â Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.[5]
- 22 June â the present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway.
- 27 June â Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.[6]
- 1 July â Salisbury rail crash: a London and South Western Railway express train suffers derailment and collision passing through Salisbury station at excessive speed; 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen are killed.[7][8]
- 12 July â Handcross Hill bus crash: 10 people are killed when a Vanguard Milnes-Daimler bus crashes on Handcross Hill whilst on a private hire excursion to Brighton.[9]
- 31 Augustâ3 September â Heat wave reaches its peak.[10]
- 15 September â anti-vivisection Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea, provoking riots.
- 19 September â Grantham rail accident: a Great Northern Railway sleeping car train suffers derailment passing through Grantham station at excessive speed; 14 are killed.[7]
- 30 September â the first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris; the winners, in the balloon United States, land in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
- October â new City Hall, Cardiff, opens in Cathays Park.
- 8 October â German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.[1]
- 23 October â suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.[2]
- 2 December â HMS Dreadnought commissioned.
- 10 December â J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."[11]
- 13 December
- Trade Disputes Act legalises picketing.[2]
- Workmen's Compensation Act entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.[2]
- 15 December â Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened.[1]
- 21 December â Education (Provision of Meals) Act allows local education authorities to provide cheap or free school meals to the poorest children.[12]
Undated
- Hampstead Garden Suburb established in north London.
- Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
- Alice Perry becomes the first woman to graduate with a degree in civil engineering in the British Isles, at Queen's College, Galway, Ireland, and is appointed in December as an acting county surveyor.[13]
- J. K. Farnell of London manufacture the first British teddy bear.
Publications
- Angela Brazil's schoolgirl story The Fortunes of Philippa.
- William De Morgan's novel Joseph Vance.[14]
- The English Hymnal edited by Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- Henry Watson Fowler and Frank Fowler's usage guide The King's English.
- John Galsworthy's first Forsyte Saga novel The Man of Property.
- Rudyard Kipling's historical fantasy Puck of Pook's Hill.
- William Le Queux and H. W. Wilson's invasion literature novel The Invasion of 1910 (originally serialised in the Daily Mail from 19 March).
- E. Nesbit's novel The Railway Children (in book form).
- J. M. Dent and Company commence publication of the Everyman's Library series with Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Births
- 5 January â Kathleen Kenyon, archaeologist of the Middle East and college principal (died 1978)
- 12 January â Eric Birley, historian and archaeologist (died 1995)
- 16 January â Diana Wynyard, actress (died 1964)
- 19 January â Leader Stirling, missionary surgeon (died 2003)
- 22 January â Joe Gladwin, actor (died 1987)
- 23 January â Lady May Abel Smith, royalty, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (died 1994)
- 10 February â Arthur Elton, pioneer documentary film maker (died 1973)
- 13 February â E. M. Wright, mathematician (died 2005)
- 19 February â Grace Williams, Welsh composer (died 1977)
- 26 February â Madeleine Carroll, actress (died 1997)
- 28 February â Percy Shakespeare, painter (died 1943)
- 3 March â Rose Hacker, activist (died 2008)
- 13 March â Dave Kaye, pianist (died 1996)
- 16 March â Henny Youngman, American-domiciled comedian (died 1998)
- 19 March â Stella Ross-Craig, floral illustrator (died 2006)
- 25 March â A. J. P. Taylor, historian (died 1990)
- 26 March â Ronald Urquhart, general (died 1968)
- 31 March â David Heneker, composer (died 2001)
- 8 April â Marjorie Lewty, writer (died 2002)
- 9 April â Hugh Gaitskell, Labour politician (died 1963)
- 11 April â Julia Clements, flower arranger (died 2010)
- 18 April â George Wallace, politician (died 2003)
- 21 April
- Lillian Browse, art dealer (died 2005)
- Stephen Tennant, eccentric socialite (died 1987)
- 29 May â T. H. White, Indian-born novelist (died 1964)
- 1 June â Walter Legge, classical record producer (died 1979)
- 5 June â Margaret Sampson, Anglican nun (died 1988)
- 19 June â Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died 1979)
- 20 June
- Catherine Cookson, novelist (died 1998)
- Robert Trent Jones, American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000)
- 26 June â John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, educationist (died 1985)
- 27 June
- Catherine Cookson, novelist (died 1998)
- Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (died 1967)
- 30 June â Ralph Allen, footballer (died 1981)
- 1 July
- Ritchie Calder, Scottish socialist author, journalist and academic (died 1982)
- Ivan Neill, major and Irish Unionist politician (died 2001)
- 3 July â George Sanders, screen actor (died 1972)
- 7 July â Hugh McMahon, Scottish footballer (died 1997)
- 10 July â Harold Ridley, ophthalmologist (died 2001)
- 5 August â Joan Hickson, actress (died 1998)
- 7 August â Launcelot Fleming, Anglican bishop and polar explorer (died 1990)
- 28 August â John Betjeman, poet laureate (died 1984)
- 30 August â Elizabeth Longford, biographer (died 2002)
- 1 September â Eleanor Hibbert, historical romantic novelist under several pseudonyms (died 1993)
- 16 September â Norman Lumsden, opera singer (died 2001)
- 27 September â William Empson, poet and literary critic (died 1984)
- 30 September â J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish-born novelist and academic critic (died 1994)
- 20 October â Winifred Watson, novelist (died 2002)
- 21 October â Elsie Widdowson, dietician and nutritionist (died 2000)
- 24 October â Robert Sainsbury, businessman and art collector (died 2000)
- 1 November â Beryl Cooke, actress (died 2001)
- 4 November â Arnold Cooke, composer (died 2005)
- 5 November â "Pip" Roberts, general (died 1997)
- 6 November â Alastair Graham, zoologist (died 2000)
- 13 November
- Hermione Baddeley, character actress (died 1986)
- John Sparrow, literary scholar (died 1992)
- 18 November
- Neville Ford, cricketer (died 2000)
- Alec Issigonis, Ottoman-born car designer (died 1988)
- 19 November â Alan Bloom, horticulturalist (died 2005)
- 21 November â Georgina Battiscombe, biographer (died 2006)
- 29 November â Barbara C. Freeman, writer and poet (died 1999)[15]
- 8 December â Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
- 24 December â James Hadley Chase, novelist (died 1985)
- 30 December â Carol Reed, film director (died 1976)
Deaths
- 5 January â Sir William Gatacre, general (born 1843)
- 22 January â George Holyoake, secularist and proponent of the cooperative movement (born 1817)
- 1 February â J. P. Seddon, architect and designer (born 1827)
- 2 March â Ellen Mary Clerke, writer (born 1840)
- 8 March â Henry Baker Tristram, ornithologist and clergyman (born 1822)
- 19 April â Spencer Gore, tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
- 5 May â Eliza Brightwen, naturalist (born 1830)[16]
- 6 June â Sir Frederick Peel, politician (born 1823)
- 20 June â John Clayton Adams, landscape painter (born 1840)
- 3 August â Sir Sydney Waterlow, businessman, politician and philanthropist (born 1822)
- 19 August â Agnes Catherine Maitland, academic, novelist and cookery writer (born 1850)
- 24 September â Charlotte Riddell, fiction writer and editor (born 1832)
- 9 October â Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster, fiction writer (born 1830)
- 30 October â Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, politician (born 1814)
- 9 November â Dorothea Beale, proponent of women's education (born 1831)
- 30 November â Sir Edward Reed, naval architect, politician and Florida railroad magnate (born 1830)
- 19 December â Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (born 1850)
- 30 December
- Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (born 1814)
- Josephine Butler, feminist and social reformer (born 1828)
- Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (born 1845 in Belgium)