1904 in the United Kingdom

none June 2020 January 2013 1904 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1904 English cricket season Football: England Scotland Events from the year 1904 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Edward VII Prime Minister – Arthur Balfour (Coalition) Events 1 January – Number plates are introduced as cars are licensed for the first time. A speed limit of 20 mph is introduced.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 335–336 0-7126-5616-2 25 January – Halford Mackinder's influential paper The Geographical Pivot of History is delivered to the Royal Geographical Society in London.Mackinder H. J. Halford Mackinder The Geographical Pivot of History The Geographical Pivot of History The Geographical Journal XXIII 4 April 1904 421–444 10.2307/1775498 1775498 2027/uc1.b000726582 free , cited in Mackinder H J The geographical pivot of history (1904) The Geographical Journal https://www.iwp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf 170 4 December 2004 298–321 10.1111/j.0016-7398.2004.00132.x 2027/uc1.b000726582 15 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20171107031836/http://www.iwp.edu/docLib/20131016_MackinderTheGeographicalJournal.pdf 7 November 2017 live 26 January Daily Mirror re-launched as a daily morning pictorial newspaper using photographs. Financier Whitaker Wright commits suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice in London immediately following his conviction for fraud.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040127.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 WHITAKER WRIGHT COMMITS SUICIDE IN COURT AFTER HEARING SENTENCE CONDEMNING HIM TO PENAL SERVITUDE Great Promoter's Career Ends in Tragedy. San Francisco Call 95 58 27 January 1904 Page 1, columns 1-3 22 December 2021 California Digital Newspaper Collection https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040127.2.2.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 WRIGHT'S SAN JOSE CAREER. Efforts Made by Promoter to Engage Capital Not Successful. San Francisco Call 95 58 27 January 1904 Page 2, column 5 22 December 2021 California Digital Newspaper Collection 12 March – Britain's first surface electric trains begin running from Liverpool to Southport on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 26 March – 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South African gold mines.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040327.2.18&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Big Mass-Meeting is Held in London: Trades Unions Show Their Opposition to the Introduction of Chinese Labor in South Africa 95 118 27 March 1904 Page 21, column 6 San Francisco Call 8 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 8 April – Entente Cordiale signed between the United Kingdom and France. 25 April – Herbert Beerbohm Tree establishes an Academy of Dramatic Art, which will become RADA, at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket (London).The Academy of Dramatic Art St James's Gazette London 26 April 1904 16 May – Royal Horticultural Society completes the move of its demonstration garden to RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey from Chiswick.History of Wisley garden https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/about-wisley/history RHS 21 July 2019 4 May – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time, at the new Midland Hotel, Manchester, to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December.https://www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com/en_US/inspiring-greatness/values/how-rolls-met-royce.html How Rolls Met Royce Rolls-Royce Motor Cars 16 March 2022 24 May – Celebration of Empire Day introduced to the UK by Lord Meath. 9 June – The London Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert. 28 June – The Danish liner Norge is wrecked on Helen's Reef off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.Per Kristian Sebak Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904 Laksevaag Seaward 2004 82-996779-0-4 1 July–23 November – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri and win one gold and one silver medal. 21 July – Official opening of Birmingham Corporation Water Department's scheme bringing water to the city from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales via the Elan aqueduct.1926 A Short History of the Development of the Undertaking, with a Description of the Existing Sources of Supply City of Birmingham Water Department 3 August – A British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet. September – Start of 1904–1905 Welsh Christian revival. 1 September – Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in west London. c. October – Mrs H. Millicent McKenzie is appointed Associated Professor of Education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, the first woman in Britain to hold a professorial title.Vanessa Cunningham John Goodwin Cardiff University: a celebration Cardiff University 2001 0-9540884-0-9 30–31 11 October – Loftus Road football stadium, home of Shepherd's Bush F.C., opens in west London. 20 October – Admiral "Jackie" Fisher takes office as First Sea Lord, initiating a period of modernisation of the Royal Navy.Mackay Ruddock F. Fisher of Kilverstone Oxford University Press 1973 9780198224099 315 21 October – Dogger Bank incident: the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy, heading for the Russo-Japanese War, mistakes British fishing trawlers in the North Sea for Japanese torpedo boats and opens fire, sinking one, and causing serious diplomatic conflict between Russia and Britain. Late October – The first members of what will become the Bloomsbury Group move to the Bloomsbury district of London.Nicolson Nigel Nigel Nicolson The Flight of the Mind: The Letters of Virginia Woolf I: 1888–1912 (Virginia Stephen) London Hogarth Press 1975 0701204036 c. November – Finchley fire brigade becomes the first to take delivery of a petrol-engined self-propelled motor fire pump. 9 November – Bahamian Dr. Allan Glaisyer Minns becomes Mayor of Thetford, the first Black person to hold such an office in Britain.Thetford Eastern Daily Press Norwich 1904-11-10 9 16 November – John Ambrose Fleming patents the first thermionic vacuum tube, the two-electrode diode ("oscillation valve" or Fleming valve).The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 978-1-85986-343-5 7 December – Royal Navy torpedo boat destroyer Spiteful 1899 begins sea trials as the first capital warship to be powered solely using fuel oil. 10 December John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies".Lord Rayleigh The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 William Ramsay wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system".The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904 24 December – The Coliseum Theatre in London opens. 27 December – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières in London. Undated Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, completed.Armin Grewe C. R. Mackintosh: Hill House in Helensburgh http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm The Armin Grewe Homepage Aldermaston 2001–2006 7 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100623144333/http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm 23 June 2010 live Licensing Act permits magistrates to refuse renewal of a pub licence if there are sufficient in the area (on payment of compensation). Victoria University dissolved, its remaining constituents, Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Leeds, becoming independent institutions. Publications G. K. Chesterton's novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo. W. H. Hudson's novel Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest. Hermann Muthesius' study Das englische Haus begins publication in Berlin. Frederick Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh. Saki's short story collection Reginald. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. Births 13 January – Richard Addinsell, composer (died 1977)https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/5/mode/2up Addinsell, Richard (Stewart) The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Randel Don Michael Don Michael Randel Harvard University Press Reference Library Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1996 5 0-674-37299-9 15 December 2021 Internet Archive 14 January Cecil Beaton, photographer (died 1980)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cecil-beaton-24657 Cecil Beaton - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 15 December 2021 Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (died 1985) 18 January – Cary Grant, actor (died 1986)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/cary-grant-78289 Cary Grant - Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 15 December 2021 11 February – Roy MacNairy, cricketer (died 1962)https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/roy-macnairy-17268 Roy MacNairy profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos ESPNcricinfo ESPN Sports Media Ltd. 25 December 2021 25 December 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211225141707/https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/roy-macnairy-17268 live 28 February – Anthony Havelock-Allan, film producer (died 2003)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/14/guardianobituaries Whitaker Sheila Sheila Whitaker Anthony Havelock-Allan The Guardian News 13 January 2003 5 January 2022 1 March – Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone, oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric (died 1996)Ferguson's Gang: The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters Bagnall Polly Sally Beck Pavilion Books 2015 9781909881716 London 6 March – Hugh Williams, actor and dramatist (died 1969)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hugh-williams-65058 Hugh Williams – Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 16 January 2022 25 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220325115750/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hugh-williams-65058 live 8 March – C. R. Boxer, historian (died 2000) 30 March – Wilfred White, equestrian (died 1995)Wilf White https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/12998 Olympedia OlyMADMen 19 January 2022 8 April – John Hicks, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)John R. Hicks – Facts NobelPrize.org Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022 14 February 2022 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1972/hicks/facts/ 14 April Sir John Gielgud, actor (died 2000)https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/john-gielgud-9565 John Gielgud – Broadway Cast & Staff Internet Broadway Database The Broadway League 14 February 2022 Elizabeth Irving, actress (died 2003)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elizabeth-brunner-124191.html Carey Helen Elizabeth Brunner The Independent Obituaries 15 January 2003 18 February 2022 23 April – Ivor Montagu, aristocrat, documentary film maker, table tennis player and Communist activist (died 1984)http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12820294z Notice de personne "Montagu, Ivor (1904-1984)" Person notice "Montagu, Ivor (1904-1984)" 24 July 2002 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 18 February 2022 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, footballer (died 1982)McManus John Jimmy McGrory Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, cited in ((The Newsroom)) https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/jimmy-mcgrory-2511339 Jimmy McGrory The Scotsman People 28 October 2006 16 February 2022 27 April – Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (died 1972)https://books.google.com/books?id=M3jUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 Stanford Peter Peter Stanford C Day-Lewis — A Life Continuum 2007 6 9780826486035 16 February 2022 Google Books 6 May – Max Mallowan, archaeologist (died 1978)http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12037606g Notice de personne "Mallowan, Max (1904-1978)" Person notice "Mallowan, Max (1904-1978)" 19 April 2007 Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 24 March 2022 8 May – John Snagge, radio personality (died 1996)Miall Leonard Leonard Miall Obituary: John Snagge The Independent People 28 March 1996 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-snagge-1344505.html 10 March 2022 20 May – Margery Allingham, writer (died 1966)David Langford John Clute Allingham, Margery The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction John Clute David Langford Peter Nicholls Graham Sleight London Gollancz 14 October 2021 Web 10 March 2022 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/allingham_margery 26 May – George Formby, entertainer (died 1961)https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 https://web.archive.org/web/20180324025741/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f471218 dead 24 March 2018 George Formby British Film Institute Films, TV and people 8 March 2022 28 May George Beck, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Liverpool (died 1978)http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbeckg.html Archbishop George Andrew Beck Catholic-Hierarchy David M. Cheney 8 February 2021 10 March 2022 10 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220310094916/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbeckg.html live March 2022 Margaret Harris, costume designer (died 2000) 4 June – Jack Lauterwasser, racing cyclist (died 2003)https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/15258 Jack Lauterwasser Olympedia OlyMADMen 30 July 2022 6 June – Lesley Blanch, writer and fashion editor (died 2007)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/may/10/guardianobituaries.pressandpublishing Salmon Alice Wooledge Lesley Blanch The Guardian 9 May 2007 30 July 2022 8 June – Angus McBean, photographer (died 1990)http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=414&expand=&L=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20150716230623/http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=414&expand=&L=1 16 July 2015 Angus McBean Manuscripts Archives Wales Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru 2013 30 July 2022 24 June – Francis Leslie Ashton, writer (died 1994)John Clute John Clute Ashton, Francis Leslie The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction John Clute David Langford David Langford London, Reading SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions 10 August 2018 Web 27 July 2022 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashton_francis_leslie 27 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220727153905/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ashton_francis_leslie live 1 July – Gordon Gunson, footballer (died 1991)https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/646 PLAYERS - GORDON GUNSON LFCHistory.net 15 December 2022 15 December 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221215151318/https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/646 live 4 July – Angela Baddeley, actress (died 1976) 5 July – Josephine Wilson, actress (died 1990) 10 July – Tom Tippett, footballer (died 1997)http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=640&united=Tommy_Tippett Tommy Tippett westhamstats.info 15 December 2022 16 December 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221216043707/http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=640&united=Tommy_Tippett live 12 July – Edward Max Nicholson, environmentalist (died 2003)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/28/guardianobituaries.highereducation Boote Bob Bob Boote Obituary: Max Nicholson Higher education The Guardian 28 April 2003 24 January 2023 14 July – Richard Clarkson, aeronautical engineer (died 1996)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-richard-clarkson-1313795.html Ramsden J. 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Obituary: Richard Clarkson The Independent Obituaries 9 December 1996 16 December 2022 17 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160817182828/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-richard-clarkson-1313795.html live 27 July – Anton Dolin, dancer and choreographer (died 1983)Beryl Grey 10.1093/ref:odnb/31040 Dolin, Sir Anton [real name Sydney Francis Patrick Chippindall Healey Kay] 16 August – Mollie Maureen, actress (died 1987) 19 August – George de la Warr, alternative physician (died 1969)Summary Bibliography: George de la Warr https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?204034 Internet Speculative Fiction Database Al von Ruff and the ISFDB Team 19 October 2023 24 August – Ida Cook, campaigner for Jewish Holocaust refugees and (as Mary Burchell) romance novelist (died 1986) 26 August – Christopher Isherwood, novelist (died 1986) 19 September – Enid Hattersley, politician (died 2001) 29 September – Greer Garson, actress (died 1996) 2 October – Graham Greene, author (died 1991) 7 October – Cyril Horn, speed skater (died 1987) 20 October – Anna Neagle, actress (died 1986) 31 October – Elisabeth Collins, painter and sculptor (died 2000) 2 November – Hugh Lygon, aristocrat (died 1936) 11 November – J. H. C. Whitehead, mathematician (died 1960) 14 November Harold Larwood, fast bowler (cricket) (died 1995) Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1988) 16 November – Norman Feather, nuclear physicist (died 1978) 9 December – Alan King-Hamilton, barrister and judge (died 2010) 12 December – Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (died 1954) Deaths 17 January – Sir Henry Keppel, admiral (born 1809)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040118.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 FAMOUS ADMIRAL OF BRITISH FLEET PASSES TO REST Death Closes the Remarkable Career of Sir Henry Keppel. San Francisco Call 95 49 18 January 1904 Page 1, columns 1-2 21 December 2021 California Digital Newspaper Collection 26 January – Whitaker Wright, fraudulent financier (born 1846) (suicide) 8 February – Alfred Ainger, biographer (born 1837)y Ainger, Alfred 1 440 22 February – Sir Leslie Stephen, writer and critic (born 1832)Maitland Frederic William Frederic William Maitland The life and letters of Leslie Stephen https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofles00maituoft/page/490/mode/2up London Duckworth & Co. 1906 9, 490-491 26 December 2021 Internet Archive 5 March – John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (born 1829)REA Photo Gallery 2 https://pcsbranch.org.uk/REAphoto[2].html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214518/https://pcsbranch.org.uk/REAphoto[2].html 4 March 2016 Simon Fenwick and PCS Branch REA 16 January 2022 17 March – Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III (born 1819)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040318.2.18.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE DEAD. Cousin of the Late Queen Victoria Passes Away in London. 95 109 18 March 1904 Page 2, column 4 San Francisco Call 3 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 5 April – Tom Allen, boxing champion (born 1840) 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040417.2.73&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 DEATHS OF THE DAY Samuel Smiles Los Angeles Herald XXXI 201 17 April 1904 Page 4, column 3 21 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 8 May Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and motion picture pioneer (born 1830)http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muychron05.htm#part5 https://web.archive.org/web/20070717204446/http://www.stephenherbert.co.uk/muychron05.htm#part5 usurped 17 July 2007 CHRONOLOGY 1893-1904 The Compleat Eadward Muybridge 10 March 2022 Frederick York Powell, historian and scholar (born 1850)y Powell, Frederick York 22 223 10 May – Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer and journalist (born 1841)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040510.2.8&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 EXPLORER STANLEY'S LIFE ENDS Famous Man's Career Is Closed in London. XCV 162 10 May 1904 Page 1, column 2 San Francisco Call 19 March 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 1 July – George Frederic Watts, symbolist painter and sculptor (born 1817)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19040702.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Celebrated English Painter Dead The Press Democrat Santa Rosa, California XXX 155 2 July 1904 Page 1, column 4 26 November 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 22 July – Wilson Barrett, playwright and actor (born 1846)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040723.2.124.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 DEATH OF WILSON BARRETT. Actor Succumbs to the Effects of an Operation for Cancer. XCVI 53 23 July 1904 Page 14, column 5 San Francisco Call 23 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection 12 August – William Renshaw, tennis player (born 1861) 4 October – Violet Nicolson ("Laurence Hope"), poet (born 1865) 7 October – Isabella Bird, explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (born 1831) 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851) 24 November – Christopher Dresser, designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (born 1834) References 1904 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1904 by country Category:1900s in the United Kingdom Category:1904 in Europe