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UK-related events during the year of 1893
Events from the year 1893 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
13 January – The
Independent Labour Party has its first meeting, in
Bradford , under chairman
Keir Hardie .
[1]
30 January –
Old Head coinage introduced.
[2]
11–19 February –
White Star Line
SS Naronic sinks without trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.
10 March – The Government takes control of
Uganda from the
British East Africa Company .
[3]
10 May –
Colony of Natal given self-governing status.
[3]
6 June –
Wedding of Prince George, Duke of York, and Princess Mary of Teck at
St James's Palace in London.
13 June – The first
British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship is held, at the
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club .
[1]
22 June –
HMS Victoria , flagship of the
Mediterranean Fleet , collides with
HMS Camperdown and sinks in ten minutes, Vice-Admiral Sir
George Tryon going down with it.
29 June – Unveiling of the
Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (with its statue of
Anteros ), designed by
Alfred Gilbert , at
Piccadilly Circus in London.
[4]
4 July – An underground
explosion at Combs Pit,
Thornhill, West Yorkshire , kills 135.
12 July –
Dundee F.C. is formed in Scotland.
10 August –
Preston, Lancashire , enters the
United Kingdom weather records with the highest five-minute total
rainfall of 32mm. As of August 2018, this record remains.
6 September –
Isinglass completes the
English Triple Crown by finishing first in the
Epsom Derby ,
2,000 Guineas and
St Leger .
7 September –
Featherstone 'Massacre': troops fire on
locked-out Yorkshire coal miners, killing two.
[5]
22 September – Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act leads to
raising of school leaving age in England and Wales to eleven years.
[6]
13 October – The first students enter
St Hilda's College, Oxford , founded for women by
Dorothea Beale .
28 October – The
Royal Navy 's first
destroyer ,
HMS Havock , undergoes
sea trials .
[1]
26 November –
Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "
The Adventure of the Final Problem ", published in the December issue of
The Strand Magazine , that his character
Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the
Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891.
28 November – Law case of
Browne v Dunn is decided in the House of Lords, a leading case on the conduct of legal
cross-examination .
[7]
30 November –
University of Wales incorporated by Royal charter.
[3]
16 December – Establishment, in
Yorkshire , of the Brontë Society, possibly the oldest literary society of this nature, dedicated to establishing what will become the
Brontë Parsonage Museum .
[8]
Undated
Publications
Births
12 February –
Tom Stephenson , rambler (died 1987)
15 January –
Ivor Novello , actor and musician (died 1951)
5 February –
W. E. Johns , writer, creator of
Biggles (died 1968)
3 March –
Ivon Hitchens , painter (died 1979)
18 March –
Wilfred Owen , soldier and poet (died 1918)
3 April –
Leslie Howard , film actor (died 1943)
9 April –
Victor Gollancz , publisher (died 1967)
8 May –
Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster (died 1963)
13 June –
Dorothy L. Sayers , author (died 1957)
30 June –
Harold Laski , political theorist and economist (died 1950)
9 July –
George Geary , cricketer (died 1981)
20 July –
George Llewelyn-Davies , one of the 'Lost Boys' who inspired
Peter Pan (died 1915)
22 August –
Wilfred Kitching , 7th General of
The Salvation Army (died 1977)
7 September –
Leslie Hore-Belisha , statesman after whom
Belisha beacons are named (died 1957)
15 October –
Saunders Lewis ,
Welsh nationalist poet, dramatist and critic (died 1985)
21 December –
Winifred Nicholson , born Rosa Roberts, impressionist painter (died 1981)
23 December –
Sholto Douglas , Marshal of the Royal Air Force (died 1969)
Deaths
2 January –
John O. Westwood , entomologist (born 1805)
15 January –
Fanny Kemble , actress (born 1809)
23 January –
William Price , Welsh physician and radical, pioneer of cremation (born 1800)
22 February –
Lydia Irving , philanthropist, prison visitor (born 1797)
18 September –
Charles Clay , surgeon (born 1801)
18 November –
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury , politician (born 1801)
11 December –
William Milligan , Scottish theologian (born 1821)
References