1910 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1910 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom (until 6 May), George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

[edit] Events

• 15 January - A general election held in response to the House of Lords' rejection of the 1909 budget results in a reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the Conservative Party), 273).
• 31 January - Dr Crippen poisons his wife and buries her body in the cellar. ^[1]
• 1 February - first labour exchanges open in the UK. ^[1]
• 27 April - House of Commons passes David Lloyd George's (1909) 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords on 28 April.

• 6 May - George V becomes King upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
• 1 June - Terra Nova Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on an expedition with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration along the coast and interior of Antarctica.
• 18 November - Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside Parliament over the failure of the Conciliation Bill. ^[2]
• December - A second general election is held in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 — making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
• 16 December - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers — three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Girl Guides' Association founded. ^[2]

[edit] Births

• 10 February - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
• 13 February - William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 21 February - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (d. 1982)
• 1 March - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 22 March - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (d. 1979)
• 12 May - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright (d. 1992)
• 13 June - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (d. 2001)
• 22 June - Peter Pears, tenor (d. 1986)
• 14 July - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (d. 2004)
• 8 November - Denis Mahon, art historian and collector
• 14 November - Eric Malpass, novelist (d. 1996)
• 19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (d. 2007)
• 1 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (d. 2004)
• 29 December - Ronald Coase, economist, Nobel Prize laureate

[edit] Deaths

• 27 January - Thomas Crapper, inventor (b. 1836)
• 3 May - Elizabeth Blackwell, abolitionist and women's rights activist (b. 1821)
• 6 May - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
• 13 August - Florence Nightingale, nurse (b. 1820)
• 12 September - Cuthbert A. Brereton, civil engineer (b. 1850)

[edit] References