1900 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1900
Events from the year 1900 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
January
February
5 February – the UK and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua .
6 February – a House of Commons vote of censure over the government 's handling of the Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
8 February – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa .
12 February – meeting held at Mile End in London to protest against the Boer War ends in an uproar.
14 February – Second Boer War: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State in South Africa. Plaque recording the location of the formation of the Labour Party
March
April
May
June
5 June – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria , South Africa.
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Publications
Births
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 1 January
2 January – Una Ledingham , physician, specialist in diabetes mellitus and pregnancy (died 1965)[ 16]
4 January – William Young , World War I veteran (died 2007)
9 January – Eve Garnett , writer and illustrator (died 1991)
20 January – Dorothy Annan , painter, potter and muralist (died 1983)
23 January – William Ifor Jones , composer (died 1988)
6 February – Guy Warrack , Scottish-born conductor (died 1986)
12 February
20 February – Bernard Knowles , cinematographer and screenwriter (died 1975)
3 March
29 March – Margaret Sinclair , Scottish-born nun (died 1925)
31 March – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
3 April – Albert Ingham , mathematician (died 1967)
9 April – Mary Potter , painter (died 1981)
19 April – Richard Hughes , novelist (died 1976)
22 April – Nellie Beer , Conservative politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)[ 18]
24 April – Elizabeth Goudge , novelist (died 1984)[ 19] [ 20]
25 April – Gladwyn Jebb , acting Secretary-General of the UN (died 1996)
30 April – Cecily Lefort , World War II heroine, spy for SOE (executed 1945 in Germany)
2 May – A. W. Lawrence , Classical archaeologist (died 1991)
5 May – Harold Tamblyn-Watts , comic strip artist (died 1999)
10 May – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin , astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979 in the United States)[ 21]
27 May – Ethel Lang , supercentenarian (died 2015)
29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir , Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
30 May – Gerald Gardiner , Lord Chancellor (died 1990)
6 June
17 June – Evelyn Irons , Scottish-born journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)[ 22]
25 June
26 June – John Benham , 400m runner (died 1990)
30 June – James Stagg , Scottish-born meteorologist (died 1975)
2 July
10 July – Evelyn Laye , actress (died [1996)
4 August – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of George VI and later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (died 2002)
17 August – Vivienne de Watteville , adventurer (died 1957)[ 23]
19 August – Gilbert Ryle , philosopher (died 1976)
23 August – Bella Reay , footballer (died 1979)
27 August – Frank Moody , Welsh boxer (died 1963)
25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie , Scottish architect (died 1970)[ 24]
4 September – Maxwell Knight , spymaster and naturalist (died 1968)
8 September – Tilly Devine , organised crime boss (died 1970 in Australia)[ 25]
9 September – James Hilton , novelist and screenwriter (died 1954 in the United States)
11 September – Jimmy Brain , footballer (died 1971)
12 September – Eric Thiman , composer (died 1975)[ 26]
1 October – Tom Goddard , cricketer (died 1966)
2 October – Isabella Forshall , paediatric surgeon (died 1989)
6 October – Stan Nichols , cricketer (died 1961)
8 October – Geoffrey Jellicoe , landscape architect (died 1996)
9 October – Alastair Sim , character actor (died 1976)
14 October – Roland Penrose , Surrealist painter and art collector (died 1984)
16 October – Edward Ardizzone , painter, printmaker and author (born in Vietnam; died 1979)
5 November – Ethelwynn Trewavas , ichthyologist (died 1993)[ 27]
18 November – Mercedes Gleitze , distance swimmer (died 1981)
20 November – Helen Bradley , painter (died 1979)[ 28]
22 November – Tom Macdonald , Welsh journalist and novelist (died 1980)
4 December – John Axon , railwayman hero (killed in accident 1957)
16 December – V. S. Pritchett , short story writer (died 1997)
17 December – Mary Cartwright , mathematician (died 1998)[ 29]
22 December – Alan Bush , pianist, composer and conductor (died 1995)
26 December – Evelyn Bark , humanitarian, leading member of the Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (died 1993)[ 30]
Robina Addis , pioneering professional psychiatric social worker (died 1986)[ 31] Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah , born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, Scottish writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960)
Deaths
John Ruskin Oscar Wilde 20 January
21 January – Francis, Duke of Teck , a cousin-in-law of Queen Victoria (born 1837)
22 January – David Edward Hughes , musician and professor of music (born 1831)
31 January – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry , nobleman and boxer (born 1844)
6 February – Sir William Wilson Hunter , colonial administrator, statistician and historian (born 1840 in Scotland)
23 February
6 March – Ada Williams , baby farmer and murderer, hanged (born c.1875)
10 March – George James Symons , meteorologist (born 1838)
16 March – Sir Frederic William Burton , painter and curator (born 1816 in Ireland)
24 April – George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll , politician (born 1823)
4 May – Augustus Pitt Rivers , ethnologist and archaeologist (born 1827)
12 May – Frederika Perceval , last surviving child of assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (born 1805)[ 33]
28 May – Sir George Grove , writer on music and the Bible and civil engineer (born 1820)
3 June – Mary Kingsley , explorer, in Cape Colony (born 1862)
14 June – Catherine Gladstone , widow of Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and philanthropist (born 1812)[ 34]
30 July – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Edinburgh), second eldest son of Queen Victoria, in Germany (born 1844)[ 35]
28 August – Henry Sidgwick , philosopher (born 1838)
31 August – Sir John Bennet Lawes , agricultural scientist (born 1814)
19 September – Anne Beale , novelist (born 1816)
9 October – John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute , landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist and architectural patron (born 1847)[ 36]
16 October – Sir Henry Acland , physician (born 1815)
22 November – Sir Arthur Sullivan , composer (born 1842)
29 December – John Henry Leech , entomologist (born 1862)
30 November – Oscar Wilde , playwright, writer and poet, in France (born 1854 in Ireland)
See also
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