1893 in the United Kingdom

1893 in the United Kingdom

Other years

1891 | 1892 | 1893 (1893) | 1894 | 1895

Constituent countries of the United Kingdom

England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales

Sport

1893 English cricket season Football: England | Scotland

Events from the year 1893 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Prime Minister – William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)
• Parliament – 25th

Events

• 13 January – The Independent Labour Party has its first meeting, in Bradford under Chairman Keir Hardie.[1]
• 11–19 February – White Star Line SS Naronic sinks without trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.
• 10 March – The Government takes control of Uganda from the British East Africa Company.[2]
• 10 May – Colony of Natal given self-governing status.[2]
• 6 June – Wedding of Prince George, Duke of York, and Princess Mary of Teck at St James's Palace in London.
• 13 June – The first British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club.[1]
• 22 June – HMS Victoria, flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, collides with HMS Camperdown and sinks in ten minutes, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon going down with it.
• 29 June – Unveiling of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (with its statue of Anteros), designed by Alfred Gilbert, at Piccadilly Circus in London.[3]
• 4 July – An underground explosion at Combs Pit, Thornhill, West Yorkshire, kills 135.
• 12 July – Dundee F.C. is formed.
• 10 August – Preston, Lancashire, enters the United Kingdom weather records with the highest five-minute total rainfall of 32mm. As of August 2018, this record remains.
• 7 September – Featherstone 'Massacre': troops fire on locked-out coal miners, killing two.[4]
• 13 October – The first students enter St Hilda's College, Oxford, founded for women by Dorothea Beale.
• 28 October – The Royal Navy's first destroyer, HMS Havock, undergoes sea trials.[1]
• 26 November – Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in the December issue of The Strand Magazine, that his character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891.
• 30 November – University of Wales incorporated by Royal charter.[2]
• 16 December – Establishment, in Yorkshire, of the Brontë Society, possibly the oldest literary society of this nature, dedicated to establishing what will become the Brontë Parsonage Museum.[5]

Undated

• Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act leads to raising of school leaving age in England and Wales to eleven years.[6]
• W. Britain invents a process of producing hollow cast lead toy soldiers.[7]
• The village of Bermuda, Warwickshire, is built.
• Isinglass wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.

Publications

• Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Refugees.
• Beatrice Harraden's novel Ships That Pass in the Night.[8]
• Stanley J. Weyman's novel A Gentleman of France.[8]

Births

• 12 February – Tom Stephenson, rambler (died 1987)
• 15 January – Ivor Novello, actor and musician (died 1951)
• 5 February – W. E. Johns, writer, creator of Biggles (died 1968)
• 3 March – Ivon Hitchens, painter (died 1979)
• 18 March – Wilfred Owen, soldier and poet (died 1918)
• 3 April – Leslie Howard, film actor (died 1943)
• 9 April – Victor Gollancz, publisher (died 1967)
• 8 May – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (died 1963)
• 13 June – Dorothy L. Sayers, author (died 1957)
• 30 June – Harold Laski, political theorist and economist (died 1950)
• 9 July – George Geary, cricketer (died 1981)
• 20 July – George Llewelyn-Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' who inspired Peter Pan (died 1915)
• 7 September – Leslie Hore-Belisha, statesman after whom Belisha beacons are named (died 1957)
• 15 October – Saunders Lewis, Welsh nationalist poet, dramatist and critic (died 1985)
• 21 December – Winifred Nicholson, born Rosa Roberts, impressionist painter (died 1981)
• 23 December – Sholto Douglas, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (died 1969)

Deaths

• 2 January – John O. Westwood, entomologist (born 1805)
• 15 January – Fanny Kemble, actress (born 1809)
• 23 January – William Price, Welsh physician and radical, pioneer of cremation (born 1800)
• 11 December – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (born 1821)

References

1. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 320–321. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
3. "The Shaftesbury Memorial, Piccadilly-Circus". The Times (33991). London. 30 June 1893. p. 11.
4. "Featherstone 'Massacre' – 7th September 1893". Wakefield Council. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
5. Lemon, Charles (1993). A Centenary History of the Brontë Society 1893–1993. Haworth: Brontë Society. p. 3.
6. Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
7. "Britains". Bethnal Green: Museum of Childhood. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
8. Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

See also