1906 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1906
Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
10 February: HMS Dreadnought 15 March: Rolls-Royce 8 February – 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 – HMS Dreadnought , the first all-big-gun battleship, is launched at Portsmouth and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
15 February – representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party .
10 March – Bakerloo line of the London Underground opened.[ 1]
15 March – Rolls-Royce Limited is registered as a car manufacturer.
22 March – first international rugby match. England defeats France 25–8.[ 2]
21 April – Manchester United F.C. , known as Newton Heath until four years ago, secure promotion to the Football League First Division .[ 3]
15 May – Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital , in Victoria, London .[ 4]
26 May – opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London .[ 1]
30 May – Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.[ 5]
22 June – the present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway .
27 June – Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.[ 6]
30 June – 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 – 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 August–3 September – Heat wave reaches its peak.[ 10]
15 September – anti-vivisection Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea , provoking riots.
19 September – 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 – the first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris; the winners, in the balloon United States , land in Fylingdales , Yorkshire.
October – new City Hall, Cardiff , opens in Cathays Park .
8 October – German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London .[ 1]
23 October – suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament .[ 2]
2 December – HMS Dreadnought commissioned.
10 December – 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
15 December – Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened.[ 1]
21 December – Education (Provision of Meals) Act allows local education authorities to provide cheap or free school meals to the poorest children.[ 12]
Undated
Publications
Births
5 January – Kathleen Kenyon , archaeologist of the Middle East and college principal (died 1978)
12 January – Eric Birley , historian and archaeologist (died 1995)
16 January – Diana Wynyard , actress (died 1964)
19 January – Leader Stirling , missionary surgeon (died 2003)
22 January – Joe Gladwin , actor (died 1987)
23 January – Lady May Abel Smith , royalty, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (died 1994)
10 February – Arthur Elton , pioneer documentary film maker (died 1973)
13 February – E. M. Wright , mathematician (died 2005)
19 February – Grace Williams , Welsh composer (died 1977)
26 February – Madeleine Carroll , actress (died 1997)
28 February – Percy Shakespeare , painter (died 1943)
3 March – Rose Hacker , activist (died 2008)
13 March – Dave Kaye , pianist (died 1996)
16 March – Henny Youngman , American-domiciled comedian (died 1998)
19 March – Stella Ross-Craig , floral illustrator (died 2006)
25 March – A. J. P. Taylor , historian (died 1990)
26 March – Ronald Urquhart , general (died 1968)
31 March – David Heneker , composer (died 2001)
8 April – Marjorie Lewty , writer (died 2002)
9 April – Hugh Gaitskell , Labour politician (died 1963)
11 April – Julia Clements , flower arranger (died 2010)
18 April – George Wallace , politician (died 2003)
21 April
29 May – T. H. White , Indian-born novelist (died 1964)
1 June – Walter Legge , classical record producer (died 1979)
5 June – Margaret Sampson , Anglican nun (died 1988)
19 June – Ernst Boris Chain , German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died 1979)
20 June – Robert Trent Jones , American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000)
26 June – John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden , educationist (died 1985)
27 June
30 June – Ralph Allen , footballer (died 1981)
1 July
3 July – George Sanders , screen actor (died 1972)
10 July – Harold Ridley , ophthalmologist (died 2001)
5 August – Joan Hickson , actress (died 1998)
7 August – Launcelot Fleming , Anglican bishop and polar explorer (died 1990)
28 August – John Betjeman , poet laureate (died 1984)
30 August – Elizabeth Longford , biographer (died 2002)
1 September – Eleanor Hibbert , historical romantic novelist under several pseudonyms (died 1993)
16 September – Norman Lumsden , opera singer (died 2001)
27 September – William Empson , poet and literary critic (died 1984)
30 September – J. I. M. Stewart , Scottish-born novelist and academic critic (died 1994)
20 October – Winifred Watson , novelist (died 2002)
21 October – Elsie Widdowson , dietician and nutritionist (died 2000)
24 October – Robert Sainsbury , businessman and art collector (died 2000)
1 November – Beryl Cooke , actress (died 2001)
4 November – Arnold Cooke , composer (died 2005)
5 November – "Pip" Roberts , general (died 1997)
6 November – Alastair Graham , zoologist (died 2000)
13 November
18 November
19 November – Alan Bloom , horticulturalist (died 2005)
21 November – Georgina Battiscombe , biographer (died 2006)
29 November – Barbara C. Freeman , writer and poet (died 1999 )[ 15]
8 December – Richard Llewellyn , novelist (died 1983)
24 December – James Hadley Chase , novelist (died 1985)
30 December – Carol Reed , film director (died 1976)
Deaths
5 January – Sir William Gatacre , general (born 1843)
22 January – George Holyoake , secularist and proponent of the cooperative movement (born 1817)
1 February – J. P. Seddon , architect and designer (born 1827)
2 March – Ellen Mary Clerke , writer (born 1840)
8 March – Henry Baker Tristram , ornithologist and clergyman (born 1822)
19 April – Spencer Gore , tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
5 May – Eliza Brightwen , naturalist (born 1830 )[ 16]
6 June – Sir Frederick Peel , politician (born 1823)
20 June – John Clayton Adams , landscape painter (born 1840)
3 August – Sir Sydney Waterlow , businessman, politician and philanthropist (born 1822)
19 August – Agnes Catherine Maitland , academic, novelist and cookery writer (born 1850)
24 September – Charlotte Riddell , fiction writer and editor (born 1832)
9 October – Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster , fiction writer (born 1830)
30 October – Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook , politician (born 1814)
9 November – Dorothea Beale , proponent of women's education (born 1831)
30 November – Sir Edward Reed , naval architect, politician and Florida railroad magnate (born 1830)
19 December – Frederic William Maitland , historian and jurist (born 1850)
30 December
See also
References
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