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UK-related events during the year of 1912
Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
Scott and team near the
South Pole , 17 January.
RMS Titanic departs from
Southampton for the first and only time, 10 April.
1 January –
General Post Office (GPO) takes over
National Telephone Company .
[1]
17 January – British polar explorer
Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four reach the
South Pole to find that
Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it.
[2]
31 January –
G. K. Sowerby 's drama
Rutherford and Son premières at the
Royal Court Theatre in London.
[3]
[4]
[5]
2 February –
With Our King and Queen Through India , a 21 ⁄2 -hour
Kinemacolor
feature film of the
Delhi Durbar of 1911 made by
Charles Urban , is first shown at the
Scala Theatre ,
London .
[6]
26 February–6 April –
National coal strike of 1912 .
[7]
[8]
1 March –
suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London, especially around
Oxford Street .
[9]
16 March –
Lawrence Oates , ill member of
Scott 's
South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time". He is not seen again.
[2]
19 March –
minimum wage introduced for miners after
national strike .
[9]
29 March – the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.
[2]
30 March – the
University Boat Race on the Thames in London is abandoned after both crews sink.
1 April – the
University Boat Race is restarted, and the race is won by Oxford by six lengths.
11 April –
Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.
[9]
13 April – the
Royal Flying Corps (RFC) is established by royal charter.
14–15 April – the
sinking of the Titanic :
White Star
liner
RMS Titanic strikes an
iceberg and
sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.
[2]
[10]
15 April – the
syndicalist
Daily Herald newspaper is first published on a permanent basis.
22 April – English aviator
Denys Corbett Wilson completes the first aeroplane crossing of the
Irish Sea , from
Goodwick in
Wales to Crane near
Enniscorthy in
Ireland .
April/May – thousands of Jewish workers in London's garment trade in the West End strike, followed by thousands more in the East End inspired by
Rudolf Rocker .
May –
Liberal Unionist Party formally merges into the
Conservative And Unionist Party .
2 May–3 July –
Board of Trade inquiry into the
sinking of the RMS Titanic .
5 May–22 July –
Great Britain and Ireland compete at the
Olympics in
Stockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
13 May – the
Air Battalion Royal Engineers becomes the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps.
9 July –
Cadeby Main pit disaster : two underground explosions in the
South Yorkshire Coalfield kill 91 miners.
15 July – the
National Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducing
National Insurance payments.
[2]
27 July –
Bonar Law , leader of the
Conservative Party in opposition, makes a defiant speech at a massive
Irish Unionist rally at
Blenheim Palace against
Irish Home Rule implying support for armed resistance to it in
Ulster .
August
10 August –
Frank McClean flies a
Short Brothers
floatplane up the
River Thames between the upper and lower parts of
Tower Bridge and underneath
London Bridge .
[12]
25–27 August – the wet summer climaxes in a major rainstorm across England, causing
floods particularly in
Norfolk and
Norwich .
[13]
September – the tradition of the
Blackpool Illuminations begins.
[14]
31 October –
Robert Baden-Powell marries
Olave St Clair Soames at
Parkstone .
[15]
5 November – establishment of the
British Board of Film Censors .
[2]
12 November – the bodies of Captain Scott and his team are found in the Antarctic.
[2]
27 November – concerted
suffragette attacks on
pillar boxes .
[16]
18 December –
Piltdown Man , thought to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the
Geological Society of London . It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953.
[2]
Undated
Publications
Births
16 January –
Norman Gash , historian (born in India; died 2009)
17 January –
Edward Fennessy , electrical engineer (died 2009)
19 January –
Margaret Wingfield , politician (died 2002)
20 January –
Reg Smith , footballer and football manager (died 2004)
21 January –
Laurence Whistler , poet and artist (died 2000)
3 February –
John Bryan Ward-Perkins , archaeologist (died 1981)
6 February –
Christopher Hill , historian (died 2003)
8 February
12 February
11 February –
Roy Fuller , poet and novelist (died 1991)
13 February
20 February –
Olive Cook , writer and artist (died 2002)
27 February –
Lawrence Durrell , writer (born in India; died 1990)
4 March –
Judith Furse , character actress (died 1974)
5 March –
David Astor , editor of
The Observer newspaper (died 2001)
10 March
14 March –
Vernon Harrison , photographer (died 2001)
19 March –
Bill Frankland , immunologist (died 2020)
23 March –
Betty Astell , actress (died 2005)
25 March –
Melita Norwood , née Sirnis, secret agent (died 2005)
27 March
29 March –
Constance Chapman , actress (died 2003)
5 April
18 April –
Sandy Glen , explorer (died 2004)
22 April –
Kathleen Ferrier , contralto (died 1953)
4 May –
Frith Banbury , actor and theatre director (died 2008)
7 May –
Frank Reginald Carey , fighter pilot (died 2004)
10 May –
Edward Gardner , politician (died 2001)
17 May –
Percy M. Young , musicologist and composer (died 2004)
19 May –
Noel Mander , organ builder (died 2005)
22 May –
Herbert C. Brown , chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
28 May –
Derek Cooper , soldier and campaigner for refugees (died 2007)
31 May –
Alfred Deller , countertenor (died 1979)
8 June –
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham , artist (died 2004)
9 June –
Gerald James Whitrow , mathematician and cosmologist (died 2000)
10 June –
William Gordon Harris , civil engineer (died 2005)
16 June –
Enoch Powell , politician (died 1998)
19 June –
Archie Butterworth , racing car designer (died 2005)
20 June
23 June –
Alan Turing , mathematician (died 1954)
[21]
24 June
30 June –
Arthur Walter James , journalist and Liberal Party politician (died 2015)
11 July –
Peta Taylor , cricketer (died 1989)
12 July –
Joseph Gold , lawyer (died 2000)
17 July –
Michael Gilbert , lawyer and crime fiction writer (died 2006)
21 July –
Tommy Butler , Detective Chief Superintendent (died 1970)
30 July –
Anne Ridler , poet and editor (died 2001)
31 July –
Peter John Stephens , writer (died 2002)
7 August –
Paul Hawkins , politician (died 2002)
13 August –
Terence Wilmot Hutchison , economist (died 2007)
15 August –
Wendy Hiller , actress (died 2003)
16 August –
Ted Drake , footballer (died 1995)
17 August –
Margaret Scriven , tennis player (died 2001)
26 August –
Alex Stuart-Menteth , naval officer (died 2000)
28 August –
George Alcock , astronomer (died 2000)
1 September –
Gwynfor Evans , Welsh politician (died 2005)
2 September –
David Daiches , literary critic (died 2005)
11 September –
Robin Jenkins , novelist (died 2005)
18 September –
Frank Farmer , physicist (died 2004)
24 September –
Ian Serraillier , novelist and poet (died 1994)
28 September –
Peter Finch , actor (died 1977)
2 October –
Eric Wilson , soldier (died 2008)
10 October –
Clare Fell , archaeologist (died 2002)
12 October –
Doreen Gorsky , politician and television producer (died 2001)
24 October –
Peter Gellhorn , composer and conductor (born in Germany; died 2004)
27 October –
Grahame Farr , maritime historian (died 1983)
28 October –
Richard Doll , physiologist (died 2005)
30 October –
Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson , judge (died 2005)
5 November –
Paul Dehn , screenwriter and poet (died 1976)
7 November –
Alex Henshaw , test pilot (died 2007)
12 November –
Kenneth Porter , Air Force officer (died 2003)
13 November –
John Hill , politician (died 2007)
25 November –
Francis Durbridge , playwright and author (died 1998)
14 December –
Desmond Fitzpatrick , general (died 2002)
27 December
Deaths
7 January –
Sophia Jex-Blake , physician and feminist (born 1840)
14 January –
Samuel Waite Johnson , railway locomotive engineer (
Midland Railway ) (born 1831)
24 January –
James Allen , self-help writer and poet (born 1864)
29 January –
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife , Scottish aristocrat and politician (born 1849)
10 February –
Joseph Lister , surgeon (born 1827)
13 February –
Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 1832)
17 February –
Edgar Evans , Welsh-born naval officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole (born 1876)
21 February –
Osborne Reynolds , physicist (born 1842)
28 February –
Bill Storer , footballer and cricketer (born 1867)
1 March –
George Grossmith , actor and comic writer (born 1847)
17 March –
Lawrence Oates , army officer, member of the Scott expedition (born 1880)
29 March – remaining members of the Scott expedition:
15 April – some victims of the
sinking of the RMS Titanic :
Thomas Andrews, Jr. , shipbuilder (born 1873)
Dai Bowen , boxer (born 1891)
Thomas Byles , Catholic priest (born 1870)
Sidney Leslie Goodwin , youngest victim (born 1910)
Wallace Hartley , ship's band leader and violinist (born 1878)
William McMaster Murdoch , First Officer (born 1873)
Jack Phillips , ship's senior wireless officer (born 1887)
Edward Smith , ship's captain (born 1850)
William Thomas Stead , campaigning journalist (born 1849)
20 April –
Bram Stoker , writer (born 1847)
[22]
24 April –
Justin McCarthy , Irish nationalist politician, historian and novelist (born 1830)
21 May –
Sir Julius Wernher , businessman and art collector (born 1850 in Germany)
13 June –
Alice Diehl , novelist and concert pianist (born 1844)
24 June –
Sir George White , field marshal (born 1835)
25 June –
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , painter (born 1836 in the Netherlands)
2 July –
Tom Richardson , cricketer (born 1870)
20 July –
Andrew Lang , Scottish poet, novelist and critic (born 1844)
31 July –
Allan Octavian Hume , civil servant and ornithologist in India (born 1829)
13 August –
Octavia Hill , social reformer (born 1838)
20 August
1 September –
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , composer (born 1875)
6 September –
Sir Charles Gough , general and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1832)
28 September –
Frederick Richards , admiral (born 1833)
30 September –
Frances Allitsen , song composer (born 1848)
8 November –
Dugald Drummond , Scottish-born railway locomotive engineer (born 1840)
17 November –
Richard Norman Shaw , architect (born 1831)
25 November – Sir
Edward Moss , theatrical impresario (born 1852)
14 December –
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , explorer and officer, lost on Antarctic expedition (born 1887)
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