1907 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1907 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal

Events

* January - The steamship "Pengwern" foundered in the North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.
* 26 January - first performance of John Millington Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin triggers a week of rioting. [cite web|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/curtainup/story/0,12830,937744,00.html|title="The Playboy of the Western World, Dublin, 1907", The Guardian|accessdate=2008-05-16]
* 21 February - mail steamship "Berlin" wrecked off the Hook of Holland: 142 lives lost.
* 27 February - the Old Bailey criminal court opens in London.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 1 June - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
* 11 June - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
* 6 July
** Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
** The world's first motor racing track opens, at Weybridge, Surrey.
* 1–9 August - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island.
* 12 August - Troops open fire during rioting in Belfast, killing four nationalists.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 339-340|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 31 August - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
* 27 September - New Zealand granted dominion status.
* 9 November - The Cullinan Diamond presented to King Edward VII on his 66th birthday.
* 29 November - Florence Nightingale becomes the first woman to receive the Order of Merit for her work during the Crimean War.
* 10 December - Rudyard Kipling wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1907/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907] ]

Publications

* Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent".
* E. M. Forster's novel "The Longest Journey".
* Edmund Gosse's autobiography "Father and Son".

Births

* 22 January - Dixie Dean, footballer (died 1980)
* 26 January - Henry Cotton, golfer (died 1987)
* 21 February - W. H. Auden, poet (died 1973)
* 27 February - Kenneth Horne, comedian (died 1969)
* 18 March - John Zachary Young, biologist (died 1997)
* 24 April - William Sargant, psychiatrist (died 1988)
* 13 May - Daphne du Maurier, author (died 1989)
* 22 May - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor and director (died 1989)
* 1 June - Frank Whittle, RAF officer and inventor (died 1996)
* 14 June - Nicolas Bentley, writer and illustrator (died 1978)
* 23 June - James Meade, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
* 27 July - Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal rower (died 1965)
* 13 August - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, politician (died 1966)
* 12 September - Louis MacNeice, poet (died 1963)
* 27 September - Bernard Miles, actor and director (died 1991)
* 2 October - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
* 9 October - Lord Hailsham, politician (died 2001)
* 22 December - Peggy Ashcroft, actress (died 1991)

Deaths

* 26 February - C. W. Alcock, footballer, journalist, and football promoter (born 1842)
* 14 July - Sir William Henry Perkin, chemist (born 1838)
* 16 August - James Hector, geologist (born 1834)
* 25 August - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, poet and novelist (born 1861)
* 17 December - Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer (born 1824)

References

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