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UK-related events during the year of 1902
Events from the year
1902 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January – the
General Post Office becomes the world's first postal administration to accept divided-back
postcards (i.e. those with an address and message on one side and a full-size picture on the other), initiating a craze for sending and collecting them.
[1]
[2]
5 January – first performance, privately, of
George Bernard Shaw 's controversial 1893 play
Mrs. Warren's Profession in
London .
[3]
17 January –
The Times Literary Supplement first published.
[3]
30 January – the
Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in
London ending Japan's policy of "
splendid isolation ".
[3]
13 February – the
1902 World Figure Skating Championships held in
London .
7 March –
Second Boer War : South African
Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
2 April – first performance of
William Butler Yeats 's play
Cathleen Ní Houlihan in
Dublin .
[3]
5 April – the first
Ibrox disaster : a stand at
Ibrox Stadium in
Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.
[4] 25 people die and 517 are injured.
26 April –
Hibernian F.C. win the
Scottish F.A. Cup , a feat they will not repeat until
2016 .
28 April –
Manchester United Football Club is formed by
John Henry Davies in a name change from Newton Heath, the
Football League Second Division club that he recently saved from going out of business.
[5]
April –
Vladimir Lenin (under the alias Jacob Richter) begins a year's stay in London where he edits the newspaper
Iskra , studies in the
British Museum Reading Room and in October first meets
Leon Trotsky .
22 May – the
White Star Liner
SS Ionic is launched by
Harland and Wolff in
Belfast .
29 May – the
London School of Economics is opened.
31 May –
Treaty of Vereeniging signed by the United Kingdom, the
South African Republic and the
Republic of the Orange Free State bringing the
Second Boer War to an end.
[3]
2 June –
Land of Hope and Glory (with music by
Edward Elgar and lyrics by
A. C. Benson ) receives its London premiere, sung by
Clara Butt .
[6]
17 June –
Norwich City F.C. formed as an amateur club, playing its first match on 6 September.
26 June
30 June–11 August – a conference held in
London supports the principle of
Imperial Preference , a system of reciprocally-levelled
tariffs or
Free trade agreements between different
Dominions and
colonies within the
British Empire .
[3]
11 July – retirement of
Lord Salisbury as
Prime Minister due to ill health.
[7] He is succeeded by his nephew
Arthur Balfour
[3] and will be the last person to have sat in the
House of Lords as Prime Minister.
22 July –
Cremation Act allows burial authorities to establish
crematoria with effect from 1 April 1903.
9 August –
coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra at
Westminster Abbey
[4] by Archbishop
Frederick Temple .
13 September –
Harry Jackson becomes the first British person to be convicted on the basis of
fingerprint evidence.
[4]
1 October – in the
Royal Navy :
16 October – the first
Borstal youth detention centre is opened at
Borstal, Kent .
[4]
4 November – first performance of
J. M. Barrie 's play
The Admirable Crichton in London.
[3]
8 December –
Committee of Imperial Defence first meets.
9 December – British and German forces seize the navy of
Venezuela in a
dispute over compensation claims .
[3]
10 December –
Ronald Ross wins the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on
malaria , by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it".
[8]
18 December – the
Balfour Education Act replaces School Boards by a system of
Local Education Authorities in
England and Wales and permits them to build and maintain
secondary schools and deliver teacher training; also provides for rate aid for teacher salaries in voluntary schools.
[3]
30 December –
Discovery Expedition :
Scott ,
Shackleton and
Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.
Undated
Publications
Births
5 January –
Stella Gibbons , novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer (died 1989)
11 January –
Evelyn Dove , singer (died 1987)
16 January –
Eric Liddell , runner and missionary, in China (died 1945 in China)
21 January –
Webster Booth , tenor (died 1984)
January –
Billy Pigg , Northumbrian piper (died 1968)
3 February –
Joseph Bentwich , British-born Israeli educator (died 1982)
4 February –
Hartley Shawcross , prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials (died 2003)
8 February –
Anne Parsons , English socialite (died 1992)
21 February –
Arthur Nock , English classicist, theologian, and
Harvard University professor (died 1963)
28 March – Dame
Flora Robson , English actress (died 1984)
29 March –
William Walton , English composer (died 1983)
30 March –
Ted Heath , bandleader (died 1969)
8 April
9 April –
Lord David Cecil , literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
20 April –
Donald Wolfit , actor-manager (died 1968)
22 April –
Megan Lloyd George , Welsh politician (died 1966)
1 May –
Sonnie Hale , actor, singer and director (died 1959)
2 May –
Brian Aherne , actor (died 1986 in the United States)
10 May –
Ian Richmond , Roman archaeologist (died 1965)
27 May –
Peter Marshall , Scottish-born preacher, 57th
Chaplain of the United States Senate (died 1949)
31 May –
Billy Mayerl , pianist and light music composer (died 1959)
17 June –
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas , secret agent (died 1964 in France)
18 June –
Morgan Phillips , Welsh politician (died 1963)
29 June –
Ellen Pollock , character actress (died 1997)
24 July
28 July –
Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh , soldier and politician (died 1987)
8 August –
Paul Dirac , physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
1984 in the United States )
12 August –
Jack de Leon , Panamanian-born theatre manager, impresario and playwright (died 1956)
[12]
16 August
19 August –
Fyfe Robertson , Scottish television presenter (died 1987)
4 September –
Lorna Johnstone , equestrian (died 1990)
20 September –
Stevie Smith , poet and novelist (died 1971)
21 September –
Allen Lane , publisher (died 1970)
17 October –
Melford Stevenson , judge (died 1987)
26 October –
Beryl Markham , aviator and author (died 1986 in Kenya)
28 October –
Elsa Lanchester , actress (died 1986 in the United States)
9 November –
Anthony Asquith , film director (died 1968)
27 November –
George Camsell , footballer (died 1966)
8 December –
Jack Solomons , boxing promoter (died 1979)
15 December –
Mary Skeaping , choreographer (died 1984)
19 December –
Ralph Richardson , actor (died 1983)
20 December –
Prince George, Duke of Kent (died 1942)
Deaths
11 January
17 February –
Charles Alexander , cricketer (born 1847)
18 February –
Sigismund Koelle , missionary (born 1820 in Germany)
26 February –
Edward Henry Cooper , army officer and politician (born 1827)
15 March –
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet , colonial administrator (born 1826)
26 March –
Cecil Rhodes , imperialist (born 1853)
29 March –
Sir Andrew Clarke , army officer and colonial governor (born 1824)
8 April –
John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley , politician (born 1826)
18 June –
Samuel Butler , novelist (born 1835)
6 September – Sir
Frederick Abel , chemist (born 1827)
29 September –
William McGonagall , Scottish doggerel 'poet and tragedian' (born 1825)
4 October –
Lionel Johnson , poet, essayist and critic (born 1867)
5 October –
Henry Lascelles Carr , newspaper proprietor (born 1844)
12 November –
William Henry Barlow , railway civil engineer (born 1812)
16 November –
G. A. Henty , historical novelist (born 1832)
17 November –
Hugh Price Hughes , Welsh-born Methodist social reformer (born 1847)
23 December –
Frederick Temple ,
Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1821)
References