1912 in the United Kingdom

1912 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

Events

* 17 January - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 1 March - Suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 346-347|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 16 March - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
* 19 March - Minimum wage introduced for miners after strike threats.
* 29 March - the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.
* 11 April - Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.
* 14/15 April - Sinking of the RMS "Titanic".
* 2 May - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of "Titanic" begins.
* 5 May22 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
* 13 May - the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
* 15 July - the National Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducing National Insurance payments.
* August - Cabinet ministers accused of corruption in the Marconi scandal.
* 5 November - Establishments of the British Board of Film Censors.
* 12 November - the bodies of Captain Scott and his team found in the Antarctic.
* 18 December - Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London. It was revealed to be a hoax in 1953.

Publications

* Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Lost World".

Births

* 1 January - Kim Philby, spy (died 1988)
* 11 February - Roy Fuller, poet and novelist (died 1991)
* 27 February - Lawrence Durrell, writer (died 1990)
* 4 March - Judith Furse, character actress (died 1974)
* 5 March - David Astor, newspaper publisher (died 2001)
* 23 March - Betty Astell, actress (died 2005)
* 27 March - James Callaghan, Prime Minister (died 2005)
* 5 April - John Le Mesurier, actor (died 1983)
* 22 April - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
* 22 May - Herbert C. Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
* 31 May - Alfred Deller, countertenor (died 1979)
* 23 June - Alan Turing, mathematician (died 1954)
* 24 June
** Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator (died 1994)
** Mary Wesley, novelist (died 2002)
* 16 August - Ted Drake, footballer (died 1995)
* 16 August - Wendy Hiller, actress (died 2003)
* 28 September - Peter Finch, actor (died 1977)
* 25 November - Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (died 1998)
* 27 December - Conroy Maddox, painter (died 2005)

Deaths

* 10 February - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (born 1827)
* 21 February - Osborne Reynolds, physicist (born 1842)
* 1 March - George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (born 1847)
* 17 February - Edgar Evans, naval officer (born 1876), member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole
* 17 March - Lawrence Oates, army officer (born 1880), member of the Scott Expedition
* 29 March - Remaining members of the Scott Expedition:
** Henry Robertson Bowers (born 1883)
** Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (born 1868)
** Edward Adrian Wilson, physician and naturalist (born 1872)
* 15 April - Some victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
** Thomas Andrews, Jr., shipbuilder (born 1873)
** Father Thomas R. D. Byles, Catholic priest (born 1870)
** Edward Smith, ship's captain (born 1850)
** William Thomas Stead, journalist (born 1849)
* 20 April - Bram Stoker, writer (born 1847)
* 21 May - Julius Wernher, art collector (born 1850)
* 2 July - Tom Richardson, cricketer (born 1870)
* 13 August - Octavia Hill, social reformer (born 1838)
* 20 August - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
* 1 September - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (born 1875)

References

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