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UK-related events during the year of 1874
Events from the year
1874 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
19 January –
Manchester High School for Girls , the first girls' school to provide an academic education in northern England, is founded.
23 January – marriage of
The Duke of Edinburgh , second son of
Queen Victoria , to
Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia , younger sister of
Alexander III of Russia , in
Saint Petersburg .
31 January – British defeat the
Ashanti at the
Battle of Amoaful .
[1]
20 February to 10 August – agricultural workers' strike.
[1]
23 February –
Walter Clopton Wingfield
patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called
lawn tennis .
[2]
28 February – at the conclusion of one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the defendant in the
Tichborne case is convicted of
perjury and his counsel,
Edward Kenealy , is disbarred.
5 March –
Conservative Party under
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield win the
general election , the first to be held by
secret ballot , despite polling fewer votes than the
Liberal Party under
William Ewart Gladstone . Among those elected are
Alexander Macdonald (Lib–Lab) and
Thomas Burt (
Radical labour), both former
coal miners and among the first
working class
Members of Parliament . Both parties have promised abolition of
income tax if elected but this never happens.
14 March – peace treaty with the
Ashanti gives freedom of movement for British
Gold Coast traders, and a promise to end
human sacrifice .
[1]
March –
Aston Villa F.C. is founded by members of Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel cricket team in
Handsworth, Birmingham .
1 April – Dr
Frances Morgan marries Dr George Hoggan and they set up the first husband-and-wife
general medical practice in the UK.
[3]
14 April –
Astley Deep Pit Disaster : a
mining accident as the result of an explosion in
Dukinfield ,
Cheshire , kills 54.
[4]
13 May – Tsar
Alexander II of Russia makes a state visit to Britain.
[5]
July
7 August
30 August –
Factory Act establishes 56-hour working week and prevents children from being used as
chimney sweeps .
[1]
Autumn –
London School of Medicine for Women founded.
[8]
Undated
Publications
Births
20 January –
Steve Bloomer , footballer, cricketer and baseball player (died 1938)
25 January –
W. Somerset Maugham , author (died 1965)
11 February –
Fritz Hart , composer (died 1949)
15 February –
Ernest Shackleton , explorer (died 1922)
9 May
19 May –
Gilbert Jessop , cricketer (died 1955)
29 May –
G. K. Chesterton , author (died 1936)
26 July –
Tufton Beamish , admiral and politician (died 1951)
8 August –
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield , businessman (died 1948)
21 September –
Gustav Holst , composer (died 1934)
15 October –
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (died 1899)
18 October –
Christine Murrell , medical doctor, first female member of the
British Medical Association 's Central Council (died 1933)
25 October –
Geoffrey Dawson , born George Geoffrey Robinson, editor of The Times (died 1944)
26 October –
Martin Lowry , chemist (died 1936)
31 October –
J. H. Thomas , Welsh-born politician (died 1949)
6 November –
Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl , née Ramsay, "Red Duchess", Scottish politician and humanitarian (died 1960)
30 November –
Winston Churchill ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1965)
29 December –
Cecil Hunter-Rodwell , colonial administrator (died 1953)
Deaths
24 January –
Adam Black , Scottish publisher (born 1784)
24 February –
Shirley Brooks , journalist and novelist (born 1816)
19 April –
Owen Jones , architect and interior designer (born 1809)
24 April –
John Phillips , geologist (born 1800)
8 July –
Agnes Strickland , popular historian (born 1796)
18 August
24 August –
William Betty , child actor (born 1791)
3 September –
John Rennie the Younger , civil engineer (born 1794)
12 September –
Francis E. Anstie , doctor and journalist (born 1833)
5 October –
Bryan Procter , poet (born 1787)
24 October –
Thomas Miller , poet (born 1807)
18 November –
Sir Henry Prescott , admiral and colonial administrator (born 1783)
20 November –
Tom Hood , humorist (born 1835)
21 November –
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet , naturalist (born 1800)
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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"Tsar Alexander swept in to visit Victoria with entourage of 70" .
The Daily Telegraph . 22 June 2003. Archived from
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