1907 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1907 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal
[edit] Events
- January - The steamship Pengwern foundered in the North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.
- 21 February - mail steamship Berlin wrecked off the Hook of Holland: 142 lives lost.
- 27 February - the Old Bailey criminal court opens in London. [1]
- 1 June - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
- 11 June - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 6 July - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
- 1–9 August - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island.
- 31 August - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
- Rudyard Kipling wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". [2]
[edit] Births
- 22 January - Dixie Dean, footballer (d. 1980)
- 26 January - Henry Cotton, golfer (d. 1987)
- 21 February - W. H. Auden, poet (d. 1973)
- 27 February - Kenneth Horne, comedian (d. 1969)
- 18 March - John Zachary Young, biologist (d. 1997)
- 24 April - William Sargant, psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- 13 May - Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989)
- 22 May - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor and director (d. 1989)
- 14 June - Nicolas Bentley, writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
- 23 June - James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 27 July - Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
- 13 August - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, politician (d. 1966)
- 12 September - Louis MacNeice, poet (d. 1963)
- 2 October - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 9 October - Lord Hailsham, politician (d. 2001)
[edit] Deaths
- 26 February - C. W. Alcock, footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
- 14 July - Sir William Henry Perkin, chemist (b. 1838)
- 16 August - James Hector, geologist (b. 1834)
- 25 August - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, poet and novelist (b. 1861)
- 17 December - Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
[edit] References
- ^ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
