1892 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1892
Events from the year 1892 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
14 January – Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence , second-in-line to the throne. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George (later King George V ).
February – Scottish Universities Commissioners publish an ordinance authorising Scottish universities to provide for the education and graduation of women for the first time.[ 1]
6–8 March – "Exclusive Agreement": Rulers of the Trucial States (Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Ras al-Khaimah and Umm al-Quwain ) sign an agreement by which they become de facto British protectorates .
15 March – Liverpool Football Club founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield , who has decided to form his own team after previous tenants Everton left Anfield in a dispute over rent. They are formally recognised under the Liverpool name on 3 June and play their first match – with a team formed entirely of Scottish players – on 1 September.
19 May – British troops defeat Ijebu infantry at the battle of Yemoja river , in modern-day Nigeria , using a maxim gun .
20 May – The last broad gauge train runs on the Great Western Railway main line out of London Paddington station . Over the following two days, 177 route miles (285 km) of its line are converted to standard gauge.
22 May – British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior.
24 May – Prince George of Wales (later George V ) becomes Duke of York .
27 June – Small Holdings Act empowers County councils to provide smallholdings for sale or rent on easy terms.[ 2]
4–18 July – 1892 United Kingdom general election : Unionist government loses its parliamentary majority, but remains in office.[ 3]
14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy . The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
25 July – The Community of the Resurrection , an Anglican religious community for men, is founded by Charles Gore and Walter Frere , initially in Oxford .
11 August – Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury loses a vote of no confidence in his government .
18 August – William Ewart Gladstone becomes Prime Minister at the head of a Liberal government with support from the Irish Nationalist Party .[ 4] Henry Labouchère to his Cabinet .[ 5]
26 August – An underground explosion at Parc Slip Colliery , Aberkenfig , Glamorgan , kills 110 people.[ 6]
2 September – Everton F. C. play their first game at their new Goodison Park stadium following their exit from Anfield earlier this year. Their first game at the stadium ends in a 2–2 draw with Nottingham Forest .[ 7]
3 September – Three years after the formation of the Football League , a Second Division is created.[ 8] Small Heath of Birmingham , Sheffield United , Darwen of Lancashire , Grimsby Town , Ardwick of Manchester , Burton Swifts of Staffordshire , Northwich Victoria of Cheshire , Bootle of Liverpool , Lincoln City , Crewe Alexandra , Burslem Port Vale of Staffordshire and Walsall Town Swifts .[ 9]
November – Traveller Isabella Bird becomes the first woman inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society .[ 10]
7 December – Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co English contract law .
21 December – Brandon Thomas ' farce Charley's Aunt London run at the Royalty Theatre (following a pre-London opening at Bury St Edmunds on 29 February).
22 December – Following a merger of Newcastle East Football Club and Newcastle West Football Club earlier in the year, a new name is given to the club: Newcastle United F.C.
Undated
Publications
Births
3 January – J. R. R. Tolkien , South African-born author of The Lord of the Rings
6 February – Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet , tank and vehicle designer (died 1935)
8 February – Ralph Chubb , poet, printer and artist (died 1960)
14 February – Val Parnell , theatrical impresario and television executive (died 1972)
23 February – Kathleen Harrison , film character actress (died 1995)
9 March
10 March – Eva Turner , operatic soprano (died 1990)
25 March – Andy Clyde , Scottish-born screen actor (died 1967 in the United States)
13 April
Arthur Harris , Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Bomber Command during World War II (died 1984)Robert Watson-Watt , Scottish pioneer of radar (died 1973)
3 May – George Paget Thomson , atomic physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
5 May – Dorothy Garrod , archaeologist of the palaeolithic Near East (died 1968)
11 May – Margaret Rutherford , actress (died 1972)
14 May – Paule Vézelay (Marjorie Watson-Williams), painter (died 1984)
13 June – Basil Rathbone , actor (died 1967)
28 June – E. H. Carr , historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (died 1982)
2 July – Jack Hylton , bandleader (died 1965)
8 July – Richard Aldington , poet and writer (died 1962)
11 July – Trafford Leigh-Mallory , senior RAF officer during World War II (died 1944 in aviation accident)
17 July – Edwin Harris Dunning , naval aviator (died 1917 in aviation accident)
22 July – Jack MacBryan , cricketer and field hockey player (died 1983)
11 August – Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Scottish poet and nationalist (died 1978)
14 August – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji , composer, music critic, pianist and writer (died 1988)
26 August – Emanuel Miller , child psychiatrist (died 1970)
6 September – Edward Victor Appleton , radiophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
17 October – Herbert Howells , church music composer (died 1983)
5 November – J. B. S. Haldane , geneticist (died 1964)
18 November – D. E. Stevenson , Scottish romantic novelist (died 1973)
6 December – Osbert Sitwell , writer (died 1969)
9 December – Beatrice Harrison , cellist (died 1965)
10 December – Lucy M. Boston , née Wood, children's novelist (died 1990)
21 December
Amy Clarke , mystical poet, writer and teacher (died 1980)Rebecca West , born Cicily Fairfield, writer (died 1983)
Deaths
January – Doncaster , racehorse (born 1870)
2 January – Sir George Airy , astronomer royal (born 1801)
14 January – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence , second in line to the throne (born 1864)
21 January – John Couch Adams , astronomer (born 1819)
27 January – Philip Charles Hardwick , architect (born 1822)
31 January – Charles Spurgeon , preacher (born 1834)
February – Baxter Langley , radical political activist (born 1819)
13 February – Sir Provo Wallis , Admiral of the Fleet (born 1791)
16 March – Edward Augustus Freeman , historian and politician (born 1823)
15 April – Amelia Edwards , Egyptologist and fiction writer (born 1831)
19 April – T. Pelham Dale , Church of England priest prosecuted for Anglo-Catholic ritualist practices in the 1870s (born 1821)
9 May – George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell , judge (born 1808)
15 July – Thomas Cooper , Chartist , poet and religious lecturer (born 1805)
18 July – Thomas Cook , English travel pioneer (born 1808)[ 12]
25 July – Thomas Legh Claughton , academic, poet and clergyman, first Bishop of St Albans (born 1808)
4 August – Ernestine Rose , feminist (born 1810 in Poland)
6 September – Betty Bentley Beaumont , merchant (born 1828)
22 September – George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland , landowner (born 1828)
6 October – Alfred, Lord Tennyson , poet laureate (born 1809)
7 October – Thomas Woolner , sculptor and poet (born 1825)
18 December – Sir Richard Owen , paleontologist (born 1804)
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