1921 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch – George V
Prime Minister – David Lloyd George

Events

January to June

1 January – Car tax discs introduced.
8 January – Chequers becomes the official country residence of the Prime Minister.
14 January – Unemployment stands at 927,000.
17 January – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "sawing a woman in half" is given by stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London.
20 January – Royal Navy K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of all 57 crew on board.
26 January – Abermule train collision: seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide head-on in Montgomeryshire.
January – Lord Rothermere's Sunday Pictorial announces formation of the Anti-Waste League as a political party opposing excessive government expenditure.
12 February – Winston Churchill is appointed as Colonial Secretary.
16 February – Unemployment now stands at over 1,000,000. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
21 February – Conference of London of 1921–1922 convenes in an attempt to resolve problems arising from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1 March – The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash of the touring England team in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years. This summer, the Australian cricket team in England will go on to win their first three Test matches.
5 March – Irish War of Independence: Clonbanin Ambush – Irish Republican Army kills Brigadier General Cumming.
11 March – Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Oxford.
16 March – The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
17 March
* Bonar Law, the Conservative Party leader, resigns due to ill health.
* Dr Marie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's first birth control clinic in Holloway, London.
19 March – Irish War of Independence: Crossbarry Ambush – British troops fail to encircle an outnumbered column of Irish Republican Army volunteers in County Cork, with at least ten British and three IRA deaths.
21 March
* Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
* Irish War of Independence: Headford Ambush – The IRA kills at least nine British troops.
26 March – Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National, ridden by Dick Rees.
31 March – The government formally returns the coal mines from wartime control to their private owners, who demand wage cuts; in response, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain calls on its partner trade unions in the Triple Alliance to join it in strike action, leading in turn to the government declaring a state of emergency for the first time under the Emergency Powers Act 1920.
1 April
* Lockout of striking coal miners begins.
* Airship R36, the first to carry a British civilian registration, makes her maiden flight from William Beardmore and Company's works at Inchinnan, Scotland.
3 April – Coal rationing begins.
13 April – Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Company of Wellington, Somerset, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
15 April
* "Black Friday": Transport union members of the 'Triple Alliance' refuse to support national strike action by coal miners.
* National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement set up by members of the Communist Party.
23 April – Tottenham Hotspur F.C. beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–0 in the FA Cup Final.
26 April – Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
3 May – The province of Northern Ireland is created within the United Kingdom under terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
4 May – The IRA kill a former Royal Irish Constabulary inspector in Glasgow.
5 May
* London Schedule of Payments sets out the World War I reparations payable by the German Weimar Republic and other countries considered successors to the Central Powers.
* Only thirteen paying spectators attend the football match between Leicester City and Stockport County played at Old Trafford, the lowest attendance in The Football League's history.
7 May – Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
15 May – The British Legion is founded as a voice for ex-servicemen by merger of the Comrades of the Great War, the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers and the Officers' Association, under the Presidency of Earl Haig.
22 May – The United States beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
24 May – Irish elections, under terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920: In the Northern Ireland general election for the new Parliament of Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. The dominant-party system in Northern Ireland will last for fifty years.
25 May – Irish War of Independence: the Irish Republican Army occupies and burns The Custom House in Dublin, the centre of local government in Ireland. Five IRA men are killed, and over eighty are captured by the British Army which surrounds the building.
1 June – Humorist wins The Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
6 June – King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
7 June
* The new Parliament of Northern Ireland assembles in Belfast City Hall; James Craig is elected as first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
* J. M. M. Erskine, standing as an "Independent Anti-Waste" candidate, wins the Westminster St George's parliamentary seat in a by-election.
10 June – Unemployment reaches 2,200,000.
12 June – Sunday postal collection and delivery is suspended.
14 June – First performance of the orchestral version of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending conducted by Adrian Boult with Marie Hall as violin soloist in a concert at the Queen's Hall in London.
15 June – 2,000,000 workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
19 June – 1921 United Kingdom census, the first to ask about work. A surplus of 1.7M women over men is recorded, largely a result of World War I casualties.
22 June – New Parliament of Northern Ireland, assembled at Belfast City Hall, is formally opened by King George V, making a speech calling for reconciliation in Ireland.
24 June – The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
25 June – Rainfall ends a drought which has lasted for one hundred days.
28 June – The coal strike ends with the Miners' Federation of Great Britain obliged to accept pay cuts and no national bargaining.

July to December

2 July – Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon Championships titles.
7 July – General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
9 July – The Irish War of Independence comes officially to an end when a truce, coming into effect at noon on 11 July, is agreed between British and Irish forces.
10/11 July – Heatwave with temperatures in the 90s in some parts of South-East England.
10 July – Bloody Sunday: clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast result in sixteen deaths and the destruction of over two hundred homes.
12 July – Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
18 July – Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
28 July – First registration of practitioners of dentistry under the Dentists Act, making it a fully regulated profession.
3 August – "Geddes Axe": announcement that the Prime Minister is appointing an advisory Committee on National Expenditure, made up of businessmen chaired by Sir Eric Geddes, to recommend reductions in government spending.
19 August – Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
24 August – Airship R.38 explodes on her fourth test flight near Kingston upon Hull, killing 44 of the 49 Anglo-American crew on board.
27 August – The first games in the new Football League Third Division North are played, a year after the southern section was formed. Among the new division's members are Stockport County, Walsall, Rochdale, Chesterfield and Tranmere Rovers.
30 August – England defeat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test match.
1 September – Poplar Rates Rebellion: led by George Lansbury, the Borough council in Poplar, London withholds collection of part of its rates, leading to six weeks' imprisonment for thirty councillors and hasty passage of The London Authorities Act through Parliament to equalise tax burdens between rich and poor boroughs.
7 September – David Lloyd George summons a meeting of the Cabinet at Inverness to discuss an independent Ireland's relationship with the British Empire.
9 September – Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
17 September – Shackleton–Rowett Expedition: Ernest Shackleton sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica.
23 September – The second female MP enters Parliament.
October – The first women are admitted to study for full academic degrees at the University of Cambridge, but have no associated privileges.
8 October – The steamer SS Rowan sinks off the coast of Scotland. Twenty-two people lose their lives.
11 October – The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.
11 November – The British Legion holds the first official Poppy Day.
21 November – Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
22 November – At least ten people are killed in widespread shootings in Belfast.
30 November – Sir Basil Thomson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
6 December – British and Irish negotiators sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London giving independence to the Irish Free State.
9 December – John William Gott becomes the last person in England imprisoned for blasphemous libel.
10 December – Frederick Soddy wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes".
13 December – In the Four-Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, the Empire of Japan, United Kingdom, United States and French Third Republic agree to recognize the status quo in the Pacific.
16 December – Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Undated

The Scottish county of Haddingtonshire is renamed East Lothian.
Wicksteed Park in Kettering opens as the first inland amusement park in England.
An exceptionally dry year over England and Wales with only making it the driest year on record since 1788, and not approached subsequently. In South East England the average is only with some stations recording less than. It reaches 34C in Southern and Eastern England on 10 and 11 July.

Publications

Dorita Fairlie Bruce's children's novel The Senior Prefect, first of The Dimsie books.
Agatha Christie's first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introducing Hercule Poirot.
Walter de la Mare's novel Memoirs of a Midget.
Eleanor Farjeon's children's stories Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard.
John Galsworthy's novel To Let, last of The Forsyte Saga.
A. S. M. Hutchinson's novel If Winter Comes.
Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow.
Sheila Kaye-Smith's novel Joanna Godden.
D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love.

Births

1 January
* Barbara Goalen, model
*John Strawson, English general and military writer
*Helen Yate, swimmer
2 January
* Kenneth Griffith, actor
* Walter Harrison, politician
4 January
* Eric Bradbury, comic artist
* Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, politician and aristocrat
8 January – John Lambert, diplomat
9 January
* Robin Coombs, immunologist
* Roy Farran, soldier and author
10 January
* Peggy Evans, actress
* Andrew Humphrey, senior officer
11 January – Kathleen Byron, actress
12 January – Jim Mortimer, trade unionist
14 January – Kenneth Bulmer, author
15 January
* John Terraine, military historian
* Frank Thornton, actor
16 January
* Geoffrey Eastop, potter
* George Thomson, journalist and politician
18 January
* Alfred Ball, air marshal
* Roy Orrock, World War II pilot
20 January
* Dick Hern, racehorse trainer
* Mike Peyton, cartoonist
21 January – Charles Eric Maine, writer
22 January
* Kevin Stoney, actor
* Arthur Turner, footballer
23 January – Mary Wixey, track and field athlete
24 January – Charles Jacob, stockbroker
25 January
* Peter Bayley, academic
* Peter Jost, mechanical engineer
26 January – Elisabeth Kirkby, English-born Australian actress, writer and politician
27 January – Maurice Macmillan, politician
31 January
* Jimmy Deane, Trotskyist
* Arthur Goddard, English-born Australian engineer
* Ralph Harris, journalist
1 February
* Peter Sallis, actor
* Patricia Robins, writer and WAAF officer
3 February – George E. Felton, French-born computer scientist
4 February
* Peter Ashmore, admiral
* Branse Burbridge, World War Two fighter pilot
5 February
*Marion Eames, novelist
*John Pritchard, conductor
*Sir Ken Adam, German-born British production designer
6 February – Margaret Moncrieff, cellist
7 February
* Tito Burns, musician
* Denis Shaw, character actor
9 February – Leslie Collier, virologist
14 February – Graham Leggett, RAF squadron leader
16 February
* Bob Evans, Welsh rugby union player
* John Galbraith Graham, crossword compiler and priest
* John Hasted, physicist and musician
* Gerard Mansell, BBC executive
17 February – John Hasted, physicist and musician
20 February – Alex Thomson, Scottish rugby union player
21 February – Morris Beckman, writer and anti-fascist activist
22 February – David Greene, actor and film director
24 February – Pat Kirkwood, actress
26 February – Frank Caldwell, army general
28 February – J. F. C. Harrison, historian
1 March
* Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter
* Jack Clayton, film director
* Michael Kerr, German-born judge
2 March
*Christopher Lloyd, gardener and gardening writer
*Robert Simpson, composer
4 March
* Jane Fawcett, codebreaker, singer and heritage preservationist
* Joan Greenwood, actress
* John Ryan, cartoonist
7 March – Eleanor Summerfield, actress
10 March
* William Blezard, composer
* John Christoforou, painter
11 March – Philip Rahtz, archaeologist
12 March – Joe Fagan, footballer and manager
13 March
* Cyril Poole, cricketer
* Gitta Sereny, Austrian-born author
15 March
* David Cobb, marine artist
* Philip Powell, architect
16 March – Eileen Nearne, agent
18 March – Arthur Keily, marathon runner
19 March
* Chris Barber, businessman
* Tommy Cooper, Welsh-born comedian and magician
21 March – Antony Hopkins, composer, conductor and pianist
22 March – Tim Vigors, World War II fighter pilot
23 March
* Donald Campbell, water and land speed record seeker
* Geoffrey Chater, actor and poet
* David Ince, Scottish World War II RAF officer
25 March
* Mary Douglas, social anthropologist
* Peter Horsley, RAF commander
26 March – Julie Harris, costume designer
27 March
* Harry Clarke, footballer and cricketer
* Richard Marner, actor
28 March – Dirk Bogarde, actor and author
29 March
* Elizabeth Kelly, actress
* Johnny Lawrenson, English rugby league winger
* Hugh Neill, businessman
* Tony Sutton, cricketer
30 March
* Tony Honoré, lawyer and jurist
* Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, Scottish noblewoman
31 March
* James I. C. Boyd, author and railway historian
* Milein Cosman, German-born artist
* Roy Houghton, footballer
1 April
* William J. Fishman, academic
* Steve Race, pianist, composer and radio presenter
5 April
* Patricia Ford, Northern Irish politician
* Les Jackson, English cricketer
* Christopher Hewett, English actor
6 April – Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
9 April – George Bryan, businessman
10 April
* Elizabeth Innes, paediatric haematologist
* Robert Wade, New Zealand-born chess player
13 April – Joan Rhodes, actress and entertainer
15 April – Charlie Kelsall, Welsh footballer
16 April – Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur
17 April – Jack Watson, cricketer
20 April – Peter Baker, English soldier, author, publisher and politician
21 April – Joe Mence, cricketer
23 April
* Gerald Campion, actor
* Derek Granger, producer and screenwriter
25 April
* Lawrence Allen, Olympic racewalker
* John Lucas, Army officer
27 April – John Stott, British Anglican cleric, Christian author
30 April – Gordon Mulholland, actor
1 May – Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, peer and politician
3 May
* Douglas Milmine, prelate
* Gordon Murray, television producer and puppeteer
4 May
* John Goodwin, theatre publicist and writer
* Stephen Hastings, politician
* Corran Purdon, Irish-born army major general
* Norman Sillman, sculptor and coin designer
5 May
* Mavis Batey, codebreaker
* John Cavanagh, neurobiologist
6 May – Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress
7 May – Asa Briggs, historian
8 May – Graham Leonard, bishop
9 May – Rosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camden, artist, noblewoman and socialite
11 May – Geoffrey Crossley, race car driver
13 May – Bill Jones, footballer
15 May – Alan Huggins, judge
17 May
* Jim Bradley, athletics coach
* Dennis Brain, horn player
* Owen Wade, medical researcher and physician
18 May
* Joan Eardley, painter
* Sir Anthony Epstein, medical researcher
* Olgierd Zienkiewicz, academic
19 May
* Leslie Broderick, Royal Air Force officer
* Pauline Clarke, author
* Leslie Sands, actor
21 May
* Peggy Cripps Appiah, children's author and socialite
* Sandy Douglas, computer scientist
22 May – John Francis Marchment Middleton, anthropologist
23 May
* John Cloudsley-Thompson, naturalist and army officer
* Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and broadcaster
26 May – Stan Mortensen, English footballer
27 May – Bob Godfrey, animator
31 May – Edna Doré, actress
3 June – John Fage, historian
5 June
* George Dews, cricketer
* John Fenton, priest and scholar
8 June
* Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, politician
* Alwyn Williams, geologist
10 June – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-born royal and consort of the British monarch
11 June – Rodney Hill, mathematician
12 June – Christopher Derrick, writer
14 June – Leslie Gooday, architect
22 June – Roland Gibbs, head of the British Army, from 1976 to 1979
23 June – Edward Sismore, RAF officer
25 June – Dennis Wilson, poet
27 June
* Alan Colquhoun, architect, historian, critic and teacher
* Muriel Pavlow, actress
29 June
* Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, life peer
* Jean Kent, actress
3 July – R. E. G. Davies, aviation historian
4 July – Frederick Sydney Waller, shipbuilder
7 July – Joe Wade, English footballer and manager
8 July – Derek Rawcliffe, Anglican prelate
11 July – Gretel Beer, Austrian-born cookery and travel writer
13 July – Gerard Mansfield, admiral
14 July – Leon Garfield, children's historical novelist
15 July – Jean Heywood, actress
18 July – Peter Austin, brewer
19 July – Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, British barrister, United Nations representative from the United Kingdom
20 July – Bob Block, comedy writer
21 July – Felix Hope-Nicholson, aristocrat and genealogist
23 July
* Robert Brown, actor
* Harry Hookway, civil servant and chief executive
26 July – John S. R. Duncan, diplomat
29 July
* Michael Davies, jurist
* Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, painter
30 July – Diana Boddington, stage manager
31 July – Peter Benenson, lawyer and human rights campaigner
1 August
* Joyce Baldwin, evangelical biblical scholar and theologist educator
* Patrick Kay, general
4 August – Geoffrey Wellum, fighter pilot and author
5 August – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, ambassador and diplomat
6 August – Ronald Grierson, German-born banker and businessman
8 August
* Alan Muir Wood, civil engineer
* David Pears, philosopher
9 August – Patricia Marmont, actress
10 August – Jack Archer, athlete
11 August – Tom Kilburn, co-inventor of the Williams-Kilburn tube, used for memory in early computer systems
12 August – Patrick Howard-Dobson, army general
13 August - Mary Lee, singer
15 August – Patrick Nairne, civil servant
17 August – Elinor Lyon, children's writer
18 August
* Francis Arthur Jefferson, World war army veteran
* Norman MacKenzie, journalist, educationalist and historian
* Gordon Thomas, Olympic silver-medal cyclist
20 August – Edward Williams, composer
22 August
* James Menter, physicist
* Tony Pawson, cricketer and writer
24 August
* Dudley Kernick, footballer
* Eric Simms, ornithologist, writer and conservationist
* Sam Tingle, English-Zimbabwean racing driver
26 August – Alan Townsend, cricketer
27 August – Trevor Baker, meteorologist
29 August
* Paddy Roy Bates, pirate radio broadcaster
* Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, politician
31 August – James Cleminson, soldier and businessman
1 September
* Daphne Park, diplomat and spy
* Austin Pearce, industrialist
3 September
* Bert Bushnell, Olympic gold medal-winning rower
* Thurston Dart, harpsichordist, conductor
* Bill Dean, actor
* Cab Kaye, jazz singer and pianist
* Sydney Knowles, Royal Navy frogman
5 September – Kenneth Shearwood, cricketer
6 September – John Bickersteth, British Anglican prelate
7 September – Ronald Brown, politician
8 September – Harry Secombe, entertainer
11 September
* Christopher Freeman, economist
* Edwin Richfield, actor and screenwriter
15 September
*Richard Gordon, author
* Clive Rose, diplomat
16 September – Peter Russell, poet, translator and critic
18 September – Sydney Cohen, South African-born pathologist
19 September – Conway Berners-Lee, mathematician and computer scientist
20 September
* Leon Comber, author
* Horace Gould, racing driver
21 September – Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster
22 September – Charles Simeons, politician and pollution control consultant
25 September – Alf Patrick, footballer
27 September – Dennis Nineham, theologian and academic
29 September
* James Cross, Irish-English diplomat
* Edward Norfolk, priest
* Albie Roles, footballer
* Francis Rose, botanist
30 September – Deborah Kerr, actress
2 October
* Edmund Crispin, writer and composer
* Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury
6 October – Val Biro, children's author, artist and illustrator
7 October
* John Gere, art historian and curator
* Michael Hoban, teacher
8 October
* Michael Fox, judge
* Robert Scholey, business executive
10 October – Neil Carmichael, politician
11 October – Paddy Ridsdale, Lady Ridsdale, politician and World War II agent
12 October
*Kenneth Griffith, actor
*Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist
15 October
* Alan Smith, footballer
* Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill, peer and businessman
21 October
* Malcolm Arnold, composter
* Herbert Gutfreund, Austrian-born biochemist
* John Wilton, diplomat
22 October
* Charles Ede, publisher
* David Williams, admiral and governor
23 October – Archie Lamb, diplomat, writer and businessman
28 October – Stan Palk, footballer
2 November
* Pearl Carr, singer
* Sally Gilmour, ballerina
3 November – Sam Peffer, commercial artist
4 November – Hugh Cunningham, army officer
6 November – Eric Day, footballer
7 November – Vivienne Harris, businesswoman and newspaper publisher
10 November – Ernie Gregory, footballer
11 November – Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager
16 November – Paul Beeson, cinematographer
17 November – James Beament, scientist
22 November – Brian Cleeve, writer
25 November – Johnny Johnson, Royal Air Force officer
26 November – Mary Gillham, naturalist
27 November – James Kinnier Wilson, assyriologist
3 December
* Arthur Clarke, sports shooter
* Geoffrey Kirk, classical scholar
8 December
* Horace Barlow, neuroscientist
* Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer
* Terence Morgan, actor
9 December – Terence Weil, cellist
11 December – Liz Smith, character actress
12 December – John Papworth, clergyman, writer and activist
14 December – Simon Towneley, politician
16 December – Alan Thornhill, artist and sculptor
18 December – Jack Crompton, footballer
19 December – Wilf Proudfoot, politician, businessman and hypnotist
21 December
* Peter Croker, footballer
* William Reid, RAF pilot
22 December – John Aiken, air marshal
23 December – Harry Moule, cricketer
24 December – Jimmy Clitheroe, comedian
25 December – Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford, aristocrat
27 December
* Gordon Brunton, businessman
* Cyril Roger, speedway racer

Deaths

1 January – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist
12 January – Gervase Elwes, tenor
18 January – Elizabeth Anne Finn, writer
26 January – Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, company director, killed in Abermule train collision
8 February – George Formby Sr, entertainer
27 February – Schofield Haigh, cricketer
22 March – E. W. Hornung, author
27 March – Sir Harry Barron, army officer and Governor of Tasmania and Western Australia
1 April – Sir Edmund Poë, admiral
2 April – Charles Blackader, general
27 April – Arthur Mold, cricketer
12 May – Sir Melville Macnaghten, police officer
19 May – Michael Llewelyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, drowned
25 May – Sir Arthur Wilson, admiral of the fleet
26 June – Alfred Percy Sinnett, theosophist
29 June – Lady Randolph Churchill, socialite mother of Winston Churchill
12 July – Harry Hawker, pioneer of aviation, aircraft accident
13 July – Emily Davies, pioneer of women's rights and education
12 August – Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, "The Radical Countess", campaigner
2 September – Henry Austin Dobson, poet
7 September – Alfred William Rich, watercolourist
9 September – William Campbell, missionary in Taiwan
11 September – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, naval officer
17 October – Edward John Bevan, chemist, partner of Charles Frederick Cross
23 October – John Boyd Dunlop, inventor
10 December – George Ashlin, architect
11 December – Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, lawyer, Lord Chancellor
25 December – Sir George Atkinson-Willes, Royal Navy admiral