1892 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1892 in the United Kingdom.


Incumbents

* MonarchVictoria * Prime MinisterRobert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( Conservative) (until 11 August); William Ewart Gladstone ( Liberal) (starting 15 August) * Parliament24th (until 28 June), 25th (starting 4 August)


Events

* 14 January – Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second-in-line to the throne. Next in line is his younger brother Prince George (later King George V). * February – Scottish Universities Commissioners publish an ordinance authorising
Scottish universities There are fifteen universities in Scotland and three other institutions of higher education that have the authority to award academic degrees. The first university college in Scotland was founded at St John's College, St Andrews in 1418 by H ...
to provide for the education and graduation of women for the first time. * 6–8 March – "Exclusive Agreement": Rulers of the Trucial States (
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area. ...
, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman,
Ras al-Khaimah Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) ( ar, رَأْس ٱلْخَيْمَة, historically Julfar) is the largest city and capital of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. It is the sixth-largest city in UAE after Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Al Ain ...
and Umm al-Quwain) sign an agreement by which they become ''de facto'' British protectorates. * 15 March –
Liverpool Football Club Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has p ...
founded by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield, who has decided to form his own team after previous tenants Everton left Anfield in a dispute over rent. They are formally recognised under the Liverpool name in 3 June and play their first match – with a team formed entirely of Scottish players – on 1 September. * 19 May – British troops defeat Ijebu infantry at the battle of Yemoja river, in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun. * 20 May – The last
broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , commonly known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union (CIS ...
train runs on the
Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
main line out of London Paddington station. Over the following two days, 177 route miles (285 km) of its line are converted to standard gauge. * 22 May – British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior. * 24 May – Prince George of Wales (later George V) becomes
Duke of York Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of English (later British) monarchs. The equivalent title in the Scottish peerage was Du ...
. * 27 June – Small Holdings Act empowers County councils to provide smallholdings for sale or rent on easy terms. * 4–18 July –
1892 United Kingdom general election The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury again win the greatest number of seats, but no longer a majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won 80 more seats ...
: Unionist government loses its parliamentary majority, but remains in office. * 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from
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. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain. * 25 July – The Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican religious community for men, is founded by Charles Gore and
Walter Frere Walter Howard Frere (23 November 1863 – 2 April 1938) was a co-founder of the Anglican religious order the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and Bishop of Truro (1923–1935). Biography Frere was born in Cambridge, England, on 23 Nov ...
, initially in Oxford. * 11 August – Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury loses a vote of no confidence in his government. * 18 August – William Ewart Gladstone becomes Prime Minister at the head of a Liberal government with support from the Irish Nationalist Party. Queen Victoria vetoes the appointment of the radical Henry Labouchère to his
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. * 26 August – An underground
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at
Parc Slip Colliery Parc Slip Colliery was a coal mine near situated at Aberkenfig, near Tondu in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. History Parc Slip Colliery: 1860-1904 This pit was opened in the 1860s by John Brogden and Sons. In 1872 Brogdens merged with the L ...
, Aberkenfig,
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, kills 110 people. * 2 September – Everton F. C. play their first game at their new Goodison Park stadium following their exit from Anfield earlier this year. Their first game at the stadium ends in a 2–2 draw with Nottingham Forest. * 3 September – Three years after the formation of the
Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...
, a Second Division is created. Its twelve members are: Small Heath of Birmingham, Sheffield United, Darwen of Lancashire, Grimsby Town,
Ardwick Ardwick is a district of Manchester in North West England, one mile south east of the city centre. The population of the Ardwick Ward at the 2011 census was 19,250. Historically in Lancashire, by the mid-nineteenth century Ardwick had grown from ...
of Manchester,
Burton Swifts Burton Swifts Football Club was a football club based in Burton upon Trent, England. Established in 1871, the club joined the Football League in 1892, remaining members until merging with Burton Wanderers to form Burton United in 1901. History ...
of
Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
,
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of
Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, Bootle of Liverpool, Lincoln City, Crewe Alexandra,
Burslem Port Vale Port Vale Football Club are a professional football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, which compete in . Vale are the only English Football League club not to be named after a place; their name being a reference to the valley of ...
of
Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
and
Walsall Town Swifts Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club's nickname, "The Saddlers", reflects ...
. * November – Traveller
Isabella Bird Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar ...
becomes the first woman inducted as a Fellow of the
Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...
. * 7 December – '' Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co'', a leading case in
English contract law English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales. With its roots in the lex mercatoria and the activism of the judiciary during the industrial revolution, it shares a heritage with countries ...
. * 21 December – Brandon Thomas' farce '' Charley's Aunt'' begins a record-breaking London run at the
Royalty Theatre The Royalty Theatre was a small London theatre situated at 73 Dean Street, Soho. Established by the actress Frances Maria Kelly in 1840, it opened as Miss Kelly's Theatre and Dramatic School and finally closed to the public in 1938.
(following a pre-London opening at
Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds (), commonly referred to locally as Bury, is a historic market town, market, cathedral town and civil parish in Suffolk, England.OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – ...
on 29 February). * 22 December – Following a merger of Newcastle East Football Club and Newcastle West Football Club earlier in the year, a new name is given to the club: Newcastle United F.C. * Undated ** Diplomat
Henry Galway Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, (25 September 1859 – 17 June 1949) was a British Army officer and the Governor of South Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920. His name was Henry Lionel Gallwey until 1911. Early life ...
secures a treaty by which
Ovonramwen Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (ruled 1888–1897), also called Overami, was the Ọba (king) of the Kingdom of Benin up until the British punitive expedition of 1897. Born circa 1857, he was the son of Ọba Adọlọ. He took the name Ovọnramwẹn ...
, Oba of Benin, ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom. ** Norland College founded by
Emily Ward Emily Mary Jane Ward, née Lord (13 August 1850 – 15 June 1930), was a pioneer of childcare education in England. She founded several institutions including Norland Place School and, most notably, the Norland Institute. Biography Lord was born ...
for the training of nannies.


Publications

*
Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
's
Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
collection '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (book publication 14 October). * Michael Field's poetry collection ''Sight and Song''. * George and Weedon Grossmith's comic fiction ''
Diary of a Nobody ''The Diary of a Nobody'' is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in ''Punch'' magazine in 1888–89 and first appeared in book for ...
'' (book publication). * Rudyard Kipling's poetry collection '' Barrack-Room Ballads''.


Births

* 3 January – J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born author of '' The Lord of the Rings'' and philologist (died 1973) * 8 February – Ralph Chubb, poet, printer and artist (died 1960) * 14 February – Val Parnell, theatrical impresario and television executive (died 1972) * 23 February – Kathleen Harrison, film character actress (died 1995) * 9 March ** David Garnett, writer (died 1981 in France) ** Vita Sackville-West, poet, novelist and gardener (died 1962) * 10 March –
Eva Turner Dame Eva Turner, (10 March 1892 – 16 June 1990) was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles. Career Eva ...
, operatic soprano (died 1990) * 25 March –
Andy Clyde Andrew Allan Clyde (March 25, 1892 – May 18, 1967) was a Scottish-born American film and television actor whose career spanned more than four decades. In 1921 he broke into silent films as a Mack Sennett comic, debuting in ''On a Summer ...
, Scottish-born screen actor (died 1967 in the United States) * 13 April **
Arthur Harris Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butch" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) ...
, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Bomber Command during World War II (died 1984) ** Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish pioneer of radar (died 1973) * 3 May –
George Paget Thomson Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (; 3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Education and early life Thomson ...
, atomic physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975) * 5 May – Dorothy Garrod, archaeologist of the palaeolithic Near East (died 1968) * 11 May – Margaret Rutherford, actress (died 1972) * 14 May – Paule Vézelay (Marjorie Watson-Williams), painter (died 1984) * 13 June –
Basil Rathbone Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born English actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume ...
, actor (died 1967) * 28 June –
E. H. Carr Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for '' A History of Soviet Rus ...
, historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (died 1982) * 2 July – Jack Hylton, bandleader (died 1965) * 8 July –
Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year w ...
, poet and writer (died 1962) * 11 July – Trafford Leigh-Mallory, senior RAF officer during World War II (died 1944 in aviation accident) * 17 July –
Edwin Harris Dunning Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), of the British Royal Naval Air Service, was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship. Early life Dunning was born in South Africa on 17 July 1892, the sec ...
, naval aviator (died 1917 in aviation accident) * 22 July –
Jack MacBryan John Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892 – 14 July 1983) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England. MacBryan was also a field hoc ...
, cricketer and field hockey player (died 1983) * 11 August –
Hugh MacDiarmid Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid (), was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Rena ...
(Christopher Murray Grieve), Scottish poet and nationalist (died 1978) * 14 August – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic, pianist and writer (died 1988) * 26 August –
Emanuel Miller Emanuel Miller (26 August 1892 – 29 July 1970) was a British psychiatrist. He is best known for his work on child psychology. Life Miller was born on 26 August 1892 into a Lithuanian Jewish family in Spitalfields, London, and was educated at ...
, child psychiatrist (died 1970) * 6 September –
Edward Victor Appleton Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He w ...
, radiophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965) * 17 October – Herbert Howells, church music composer (died 1983) * 5 November –
J. B. S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...
, geneticist (died 1964) * 18 November –
D. E. Stevenson Dorothy Emily Stevenson (18 November 1892 – 30 December 1973) was a best-selling Scottish writer. She published more than 40 "light romantic novels" over a span of more than 40 years. Life Stevenson was born in Melville Street, Edinburgh, ...
, Scottish romantic novelist (died 1973) * 6 December – Osbert Sitwell, writer (died 1969) * 9 December –
Beatrice Harrison Beatrice Harrison (9 December 1892 – 10 March 1965) was a British cellist active in the first half of the 20th century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Frederick Delius, and made the first or ...
, cellist (died 1965) * 10 December –
Lucy M. Boston Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), born Lucy Maria Wood, was an English novelist who wrote for children and adults, publishing her work entirely after the age of 60. She is best known for her " Green Knowe" series: six low fantasy children's novels p ...
, née Wood, children's novelist (died 1990) * 21 December ** Amy Clarke, mystical poet, writer and teacher (died 1980) ** Rebecca West, born Cicily Fairfield, writer (died 1983)


Deaths

* January – Doncaster, racehorse (born 1870) * 2 January –
Sir George Airy Sir George Biddell Airy (; 27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the E ...
, astronomer royal (born 1801) * 14 January – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line to the throne (born 1864) * 21 January – John Couch Adams, astronomer (born 1819) * 27 January – Philip Charles Hardwick, architect (born 1822) * 31 January – Charles Spurgeon, preacher (born 1834) * February –
Baxter Langley John Baxter Langley (1819 – February 1892) was a radical political activist and newspaper editor. Early life Langley son of Rev John Langley was born in Shrewsbury. His father was curate of the church of St Chad. The Langley's neighbours were t ...
, radical political activist (born 1819) * 13 February – Sir Provo Wallis, Admiral of the Fleet (born 1791) * 16 March –
Edward Augustus Freeman Edward Augustus Freeman (2 August 182316 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. ...
, historian and politician (born 1823) * 15 April – Amelia Edwards, Egyptologist and fiction writer (born 1831) * 19 April –
T. Pelham Dale Thomas Pelham Dale (1821–1892) was an English Anglo-Catholic ritualist priest, most notable for being prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist practices. Biography Thomas Pelham Dale was born at Greenwich on 3 April 1821 and grew up in Beckenham ...
, Church of England priest prosecuted for Anglo-Catholic ritualist practices in the 1870s (born 1821) * 9 May – George Wilshere, 1st Baron Bramwell, judge (born 1808) * 15 July – Thomas Cooper, Chartist, poet and religious lecturer (born 1805) * 18 July – Thomas Cook, English travel pioneer (born 1808) * 25 July – Thomas Legh Claughton, academic, poet and clergyman, first Bishop of St Albans (born 1808) * 4 August – Ernestine Rose, feminist (born 1810 in Poland) * 6 September –
Betty Bentley Beaumont Betty Beaumont (, Bentley; 9 August 1828 – 6 September 1892) was a 19th-century British author, merchant, cotton factor and hotel owner. After immigrating to the U.S., she became a successful merchant of Woodville, Mississippi. Beaumont was th ...
, merchant (born 1828) * 22 September – George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, landowner (born 1828) * 6 October –
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...
, poet laureate (born 1809) * 7 October – Thomas Woolner, sculptor and poet (born 1825) * 18 December – Sir Richard Owen, paleontologist (born 1804)


References

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