Events from the year1900 in theUnited Kingdom.

• Monarch –Victoria
• Prime Minister –Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Coalition)

• 3 January – Royal YachtVictoria and Albert capsizes while being floated out ofdry dock atPembroke Dock on completion of her construction.^[1]
• 9 January –influenza outbreak inLondon.
• 24 January – Second Boer War: Boers repel British troops under General SirRedvers Buller at theBattle of Spion Kop.^[2]
• 31 January – theGramophone Company copyrights theHis Master's Voice illustration.^[3]

• 5 February – the UK and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal throughNicaragua.
• 6 February – aHouse of Commons vote of censure over thegovernment's handling of theSecond Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
• 8 February – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated byBoers atLadysmith, South Africa.
• 12 February – meeting held atMile End in London to protest against the Boer War ends in an uproar.
• 14 February – Second Boer War: 20,000 British troops invade theOrange Free State in South Africa.

• 27 February
  • Second Boer War: British military leaders in South Africa receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer GeneralPiet Cronjé.
  • Creation of theLabour Party;Ramsay MacDonald is appointed its first secretary.^[4]
• 28 February – Second Boer War: the 118-daySiege of Ladysmith is lifted.^[4]

• 3 March – official inauguration of theBoundary Estate,Shoreditch,London; Britain's first council estate to be commenced (10 years previously).^[5]
• March–September –War of the Golden Stool fought against theAshanti Empire.

• 1 April –Irish Guards formed byQueen Victoria.
• 4 April
  • An anarchist shoots atthe Prince of Wales during his visit toBelgium for the birthday celebrations of the King of Belgium.
  • Queen Victoria arrives inDublin on her fourth and last visit to Ireland.
• 23 April–12 May – theAutomobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motorrally over a circular route between London and Edinburgh.^[6]
• 24 April – theDaily Express newspaper is published for the first time.^[4]

• 14 May–28 October –Great Britain and Ireland compete at theOlympics inParis and win 15 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze medals.
• 17 May – Second Boer War:Siege of Mafeking ends.^[4]
• 18 May – the UK proclaims aprotectorate overTonga.

• 5 June – Second Boer War: British soldiers takePretoria, South Africa.

• 19–21 July –Bernard Bosanquet first bowls agoogly infirst-class cricket, playing forMiddlesex againstLeicestershire atLord's.^[7]
• 27 July –Louise, Princess Royal, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, marriesAlexander Duff, Earl of Fife, in the private chapel ofBuckingham Palace, London; 2 days later he is createdDuke of Fife, the last Dukedom created in Britain for a person who is not a son, grandson or consort of the Sovereign.
• 30 July
  • The Duke of Albany becomes Duke ofSaxe-Coburg and Gotha asCarl Eduard following the death of his uncle,Duke Alfred, a son of Queen Victoria who is the third of the reigning monarch's children to die.
  • Mines (Prohibition of Child Labour Underground) Act prohibits children under the age of thirteen from working in mines.^[8]

• 8 August –Great Britain loses to theUnited States in thefirst Davis Cup tennis competition.^[4]
• 14 August – an international contingent of troops under British command invadesPeking and frees Europeans taken hostage during theBoxer Rebellion.
• 27 August – British defeat Boer commandos atBergendal.

• 3 September –West Bromwich Albion F.C. move intoThe Hawthorns, a new stadium on the border ofWest Bromwich andHandsworth.^[9]
• 12 September – The Prince of Wales's horseDiamond Jubilee completes theEnglish Triple Crown by finishing first in the2,000 Guineas,Epsom Derby andSt Leger, ridden byHerbert Jones.

• 3 October –Edward Elgar's choral workThe Dream of Gerontius receives its first performance, inBirmingham Town Hall.
• 25 October – Second Boer War: United Kingdom annexesTransvaal.^[4]

• 22–14 November 1903 –strike ofWelsh slate workers atPenrhyn Quarry.^[10]

• 3 December – theConservative Party underLord Salisbury wins the 'Khaki'general election.Winston Churchill becomes aMember of Parliament for the first time, elected forOldham; and two Labour candidates are successful:Keir Hardie inMerthyr Tydfil andRichard Bell inDerby.^[11]
• 15 December – the three lighthouse keepers on Flannan Isle disappear without a trace
• 28 December – theLiverpoolbarquePrimrose Hill is wrecked onSouth Stack offHolyhead with the loss of 33 lives.^[12]
• 31 December – a storm causes a stone and a lintel to fall atStonehenge; they are restored in 1958.^[4]

• Beer Scare:beer drinkers inNorth West England suffer poisoning fromarsenic in brewing sugars: 6,000 people affected and 70 killed.^[13]
• Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers formed by the amalgamation of 24 cement companies.^[14]
• William Harbutt ofBathampton begins commercial production ofPlasticinemodelling clay.

• Ernest Bramah's oriental fantasy storiesThe Wallet of Kai Lung.
• Joseph Conrad's novelLord Jim.
• Maurice Hewlett's historical novelThe Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay.^[15]
• Gertrude Jekyll's bookHome and Garden: notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both.
• Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthologyThe Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900.
• H. G. Wells' novelLove and Mr Lewisham.

• 1 January
  • Roger Maxwell, film actor (died 1971)
  • Lillian Rich, silent film actress (died 1954)
• 2 January –Una Ledingham, physician, specialist indiabetes mellitus and pregnancy (died 1965)^[16]
• 4 January –William Young, World War I veteran (died 2007)
• 9 January –Eve Garnett, writer and illustrator (died 1991)
• 20 January –Dorothy Annan, painter, potter and muralist (died 1983)
• 23 January –William Ifor Jones, composer (died 1988)
• 6 February –Guy Warrack, Scottish-born conductor (died 1986)
• 12 February
  • Robert Boothby, politician (died 1986)
  • Fred Emney, comic performer (died 1980)
• 20 February –Bernard Knowles, cinematographer and screenwriter (died 1975)
• 3 March
  • Edna Best, stage, film and early television actress (died 1974 in Switzerland)^[17]
  • Basil Bunting, modernist poet (died 1985)
• 15 March –Frances Partridge, writer (died 2004)
• 29 March –Margaret Sinclair, Scottish-born nun (died 1925)
• 31 March –Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
• 3 April –Albert Ingham, mathematician (died 1967)
• 9 April –Mary Potter, painter (died 1981)
• 19 April –Richard Hughes, novelist (died 1976)
• 22 April –Nellie Beer, Conservative politician, Lord Mayor ofManchester (died 1988)^[18]
• 24 April –Elizabeth Goudge, novelist (died 1984)^[19][20]
• 25 April –Gladwyn Jebb, actingSecretary-General of the UN (died 1996)
• 30 April –Cecily Lefort, World War II heroine, spy for SOE (executed 1945 in Germany)
• 2 May –A. W. Lawrence, Classical archaeologist (died 1991)
• 5 May –Harold Tamblyn-Watts, comic strip artist (died 1999)
• 10 May –Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979 in the United States)^[21]
• 27 May –Ethel Lang, supercentenarian (died 2015)
• 29 May –David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
• 30 May –Gerald Gardiner, Lord Chancellor (died 1990)
• 6 June
  • Arthur Askey, comedian (died 1982)
  • Lester Matthews, actor (died 1975)
• 17 June –Evelyn Irons, Scottish-born journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)^[22]
• 25 June
  • Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment (died 2006)
  • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet and last Viceroy of India (assassinated 1979 in Ireland)
• 26 June –John Benham, 400m runner (died 1990)
• 30 June –James Stagg, Scottish-born meteorologist (died 1975)
• 2 July
  • Tyrone Guthrie, theatre director (died 1971 in Ireland)
  • Sophie Harris, theatre and opera costume and scenic designer (died 1966)
• 10 July –Evelyn Laye, actress (died 1996)
• 4 August – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen consort ofGeorge VI and laterQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (died 2002)
• 17 August –Vivienne de Watteville, adventurer (died 1957)^[23]
• 19 August –Gilbert Ryle, philosopher (died 1976)
• 23 August –Bella Reay, footballer (died 1979)
• 27 August –Frank Moody, Welsh boxer (died 1963)
• 25 August –Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect (died 1970)^[24]
• 4 September –Maxwell Knight, spymaster and naturalist (died 1968)
• 8 September –Tilly Devine, organised crime boss (died 1970 in Australia)^[25]
• 9 September –James Hilton, novelist and screenwriter (died 1954 in the United States)
• 11 September –Jimmy Brain, footballer (died 1971)
• 12 September –Eric Thiman, composer (died 1975)^[26]
• 1 October –Tom Goddard, cricketer (died 1966)
• 2 October –Isabella Forshall, paediatric surgeon (died 1989)
• 6 October –Stan Nichols, cricketer (died 1961)
• 8 October –Geoffrey Jellicoe, landscape architect (died 1996)
• 9 October –Alastair Sim, character actor (died 1976)
• 14 October –Roland Penrose, Surrealist painter and art collector (died 1984)
• 16 October –Edward Ardizzone, painter, printmaker and author (born in Vietnam; died 1979)
• 5 November –Ethelwynn Trewavas,ichthyologist (died 1993)^[27]
• 18 November –Mercedes Gleitze, distance swimmer (died 1981)
• 20 November –Helen Bradley, painter (died 1979)^[28]
• 22 November –Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (died 1980)
• 4 December –John Axon, railwayman hero (killed in accident 1957)
• 16 December –V. S. Pritchett, short story writer (died 1997)
• 17 December –Mary Cartwright, mathematician (died 1998)^[29]
• 22 December –Alan Bush, pianist, composer and conductor (died 1995)
• 26 December –Evelyn Bark, humanitarian, leading member of the Red Cross, first female recipient of theCMG (died 1993)^[30]
• Robina Addis, psychiatric social worker (died 1986)^[31]
• Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, Scottish writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960)

• 20 January
  • R. D. Blackmore, novelist (born 1825)^[32]
  • John Ruskin, writer and social critic (born 1819)
• 21 January –Francis, Duke of Teck, a cousin-in-law of Queen Victoria (born 1837)
• 22 January –David Edward Hughes, musician and professor of music (born 1831)
• 31 January –John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nobleman and boxer (born 1844)
• 6 February – SirWilliam Wilson Hunter, colonial administrator, statistician and historian (born 1840 in Scotland)
• 23 February
  • William Butterfield, architect (born 1814)
  • Ernest Dowson, poet (born 1867)
• 6 March –Ada Williams, baby farmer and murderer, hanged (born c.1875)
• 10 March –George James Symons, meteorologist (born 1838)
• 16 March – SirFrederic William Burton, painter and curator (born 1816 in Ireland)
• 24 April –George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, politician (born 1823)
• 4 May –Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and archaeologist (born 1827)
• 12 May –Frederika Perceval, last surviving child of assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Perceval (born 1805)^[33]
• 28 May – SirGeorge Grove, writer on music and the Bible and civil engineer (born 1820)
• 3 June –Mary Kingsley, explorer, in Cape Colony (born 1862)
• 14 June –Catherine Gladstone, widow of Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and philanthropist (born 1812)^[34]
• 30 July –Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Edinburgh), second eldest son of Queen Victoria, in Germany (born 1844)^[35]
• 28 August –Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (born 1838)
• 31 August – SirJohn Bennet Lawes, agricultural scientist (born 1814)
• 19 September –Anne Beale, novelist (born 1816)
• 9 October –John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist and architectural patron (born 1847)^[36]
• 16 October – SirHenry Acland, physician (born 1815)
• 22 November – SirArthur Sullivan, composer (born 1842)
• 29 December –John Henry Leech, entomologist (born 1862)
• 30 November –Oscar Wilde, playwright, writer and poet, in France (born 1854 in Ireland)

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