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UK-related events during the year of 1900
Events from the year
1900 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January
February
5 February – the UK and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through
Nicaragua .
6 February – the
House of Commons vote of censure over the
government 's handling of the
Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
8 February – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by
Boers at
Ladysmith, South Africa .
12 February – meeting held at
Mile End to protest against the Boer War ends in an uproar.
14 February – Second Boer War: in South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the
Orange Free State .
Plaque recording the location of the formation of the Labour Party
March
April
May
June
5 June – Second Boer War: British soldiers take
Pretoria , South Africa.
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Publications
Births
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
1 January
2 January –
Una Ledingham , physician, specialist in
diabetes mellitus and pregnancy (died 1965)
[15]
4 January –
William Young , World War I veteran (died 2007)
9 January –
Eve Garnett , writer and illustrator (died 1991)
20 January –
Dorothy Annan , painter, potter and muralist (died 1983)
23 January –
William Ifor Jones , composer (died 1988)
6 February –
Guy Warrack , Scottish-born conductor (died 1986)
12 February
20 February –
Bernard Knowles , cinematographer and screenwriter (died 1975)
3 March
29 March –
Margaret Sinclair , Scottish-born nun (died 1925)
31 March –
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
3 April –
Albert Ingham , mathematician (died 1967)
9 April –
Mary Potter , painter (died 1981)
19 April –
Richard Hughes , novelist (died 1976)
22 April –
Nellie Beer , Conservative politician, Lord Mayor of
Manchester (died 1988)
[17]
24 April –
Elizabeth Goudge , novelist (died 1984)
[18]
[19]
25 April –
Gladwyn Jebb , acting
Secretary-General of the UN (died 1996)
30 April –
Cecily Lefort , World War II heroine, spy for SOE (executed 1945 in Germany)
2 May –
A. W. Lawrence , Classical archaeologist (died 1991)
5 May –
Harold Tamblyn-Watts , comic strip artist (died 1999)
10 May –
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin , astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979 in the United States)
[20]
27 May –
Ethel Lang , née Lancaster, supercentenarian (died 2015)
29 May –
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir , Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
30 May –
Gerald Gardiner , Lord Chancellor (died 1990)
6 June
17 June –
Evelyn Irons , Scottish-born journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)
[21]
25 June
26 June –
John Benham , 400m runner (died 1990)
30 June –
James Stagg , Scottish-born meteorologist (died 1975)
2 July
10 July –
Evelyn Laye , actress (died [1996)
4 August – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort of
George VI and later
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (died 2002)
17 August –
Vivienne de Watteville , adventurer (died 1957)
[22]
19 August –
Gilbert Ryle , philosopher (died 1976)
23 August –
Bella Reay , footballer (died 1979)
27 August –
Frank Moody , Welsh boxer (died 1963)
25 August –
Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie , Scottish architect (died 1970)
[23]
4 September –
Maxwell Knight , spymaster and naturalist (died 1968)
8 September –
Tilly Devine , organised crime boss (died 1970 in Australia)
[24]
9 September –
James Hilton , novelist and screenwriter (died 1954 in the United States)
11 September –
Jimmy Brain , footballer (died 1971)
12 September –
Eric Thiman , composer (died 1975)
[25]
1 October –
Tom Goddard , cricketer (died 1966)
2 October –
Isabella Forshall , paediatric surgeon (died 1989)
6 October –
Stan Nichols , cricketer (died 1961)
8 October –
Geoffrey Jellicoe , landscape architect (died 1996)
9 October –
Alastair Sim , character actor (died 1976)
14 October –
Roland Penrose , Surrealist painter and art collector (died 1984)
16 October –
Edward Ardizzone , painter, printmaker and author (born in Vietnam; died 1979)
5 November –
Ethelwynn Trewavas ,
ichthyologist (died 1993)
[26]
18 November –
Mercedes Gleitze , distance swimmer (died 1981)
20 November –
Helen Bradley , painter (died 1979)
[27]
22 November –
Tom Macdonald , Welsh journalist and novelist (died 1980)
4 December –
John Axon , railwayman hero (killed in accident 1957)
16 December –
V. S. Pritchett , short story writer (died 1997)
17 December –
Mary Cartwright , mathematician (died 1998)
[28]
22 December –
Alan Bush , pianist, composer and conductor (died 1995)
26 December –
Evelyn Bark , humanitarian, leading member of the Red Cross, first female recipient of the
CMG (died 1993)
[29]
Robina Addis , pioneering professional psychiatric social worker (died 1986)
[30]
Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah , born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, Scottish writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960)
Deaths
John Ruskin
Oscar Wilde
20 January
21 January –
Francis, Duke of Teck , a cousin-in-law of Queen Victoria (born 1837)
22 January –
David Edward Hughes , musician and professor of music (born 1831)
31 January –
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry , nobleman and boxer (born 1844)
6 February – Sir
William Wilson Hunter , colonial administrator, statistician and historian (born 1840 in Scotland)
23 February
6 March –
Ada Williams , baby farmer and murderer, hanged (born c.1875)
10 March –
George James Symons , meteorologist (born 1838)
16 March – Sir
Frederic William Burton , painter and curator (born 1816 in Ireland)
24 April –
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll , politician (born 1823)
4 May –
Augustus Pitt Rivers , ethnologist and archaeologist (born 1827)
28 May – Sir
George Grove , writer on music and the Bible and civil engineer (born 1820)
3 June –
Mary Kingsley , explorer, in Cape Colony (born 1862)
14 June –
Catherine Gladstone , widow of Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and philanthropist (born 1812)
[32]
30 July –
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Edinburgh), second eldest son of Queen Victoria, in Germany (born 1844)
[33]
28 August –
Henry Sidgwick , philosopher (born 1838)
31 August – Sir
John Bennet Lawes , agricultural scientist (born 1814)
19 September –
Anne Beale , novelist (born 1816)
9 October –
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute , landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist and architectural patron (born 1847)
[34]
16 October – Sir
Henry Acland , physician (born 1815)
22 November – Sir
Arthur Sullivan , composer (born 1842)
29 December –
John Henry Leech , entomologist (born 1862)
30 November –
Oscar Wilde , playwright, writer and poet, in France (born 1854 in Ireland)
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