Events from the year1912 in the United Kingdom.

• Monarch –George V
• Prime Minister –H. H. Asquith (Liberal)

• 1 January –General Post Office (GPO) takes overNational Telephone Company.^[1]
• 17 January – British polar explorerRobert Falcon Scott and a team of four reach theSouth Pole to find thatRoald Amundsen had beaten them to it.^[2]
• 31 January –G. K. Sowerby's dramaRutherford and Son premières at theRoyal Court Theatre in London.^[3]
• 2 February –With Our King and Queen Through India, a 21⁄2-hourKinemacolorfeature film of theDelhi Durbar of 1911 made byCharles Urban, is first shown at theScala Theatre,London.^[4]
• 26 February–6 April –National coal strike of 1912.^[5]
• 1 March –suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London, especially aroundOxford Street.^[6]
• 16 March –Lawrence Oates, ill member ofScott'sSouth Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time". He is not seen again.^[2]
• 19 March –minimum wage introduced for miners afternational strike.^[6]
• 29 March – the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.^[2]
• 30 March – theUniversity Boat Race on the Thames in London is abandoned after both crews sink.
• 1 April – theUniversity Boat Race is restarted, and the race is won by Oxford by six lengths.
• 11 April –Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.^[6]
• 13 April – theRoyal Flying Corps (RFC) is established by royal charter.
• 14–15 April – thesinking of theTitanic:White StarlinerRMS Titanic strikes aniceberg andsinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.^[2]
• 15 April – thesyndicalistDaily Herald newspaper is first published on a permanent basis.
• 22 April – English aviatorDenys Corbett Wilson completes the first aeroplane crossing of theIrish Sea, fromGoodwick inWales to Crane nearEnniscorthy inIreland.
• April/May – thousands of Jewish workers in London's garment trade in the West End strike, followed by thousands more in the East End inspired byRudolf Rocker.
• May –Liberal Unionist Party formally merges into theConservative And Unionist Party.
• 2 May–3 July –Board of Trade inquiry into thesinking of the RMSTitanic.
• 5 May–22 July –Great Britain and Ireland compete at theOlympics inStockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
• 13 May – theAir Battalion Royal Engineers becomes the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps.
• 9 July –Cadeby Main pit disaster: two underground explosions in theSouth Yorkshire Coalfield kill 91 miners.
• 15 July – theNational Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducingNational Insurance payments.^[2]
• 27 July –Bonar Law, leader of theConservative Party in opposition, makes a defiant speech at a massiveIrish Unionist rally atBlenheim Palace againstIrish Home Rule implying support for armed resistance to it inUlster.
• August
  • Cabinet ministers accused of corruption in theMarconi scandal.^[6]
  • Wettest British August on record.^[7]
• 10 August –Frank McClean flies aShort Brothersfloatplane up theRiver Thames between the upper and lower parts ofTower Bridge and underneathLondon Bridge.^[8]
• 25–27 August – the wet summer climaxes in a major rainstorm across England, causingfloods particularly inNorfolk andNorwich.^[9]
• September – the tradition of theBlackpool Illuminations begins.^[10]
• 31 October –Robert Baden-Powell marriesOlave St Clair Soames atParkstone.^[11]
• 5 November – establishment of theBritish Board of Film Censors.^[2]
• 12 November – the bodies of Captain Scott and his team are found in the Antarctic.^[2]
• 27 November – concertedsuffragette attacks onpillar boxes.^[12]
• 18 December –Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to theGeological Society of London. It is revealed to be a hoax in 1953.^[2]

• Sir Rufus Isaacs, theAttorney General, becomes the first believingJew appointed to theCabinet.^[13]
• Judges' Rules are issued by the judges of theKing's Bench to give Englishpolice forces guidance on the procedures to be followed in detaining and questioning suspects.^[14]
• Glucozade, the predecessor ofLucozade, is first produced.

• Walter de la Mare'sThe Listeners, and Other Poems.
• Ethel M. Dell's first novelThe Way of an Eagle.^[15]
• Arthur Conan Doyle's novelThe Lost World.
• The firstGeorgian Poetry anthologyGeorgian Poetry 1911–12 edited byEdward Marsh.
• Alfred North Whitehead andBertrand Russell's bookPrincipia Mathematica vol. 2, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.

• 16 January –Norman Gash, historian (born in India; died 2009)
• 17 January –Edward Fennessy, electrical engineer (died 2009)
• 19 January –Margaret Wingfield, politician (died 2002)
• 20 January –Reg Smith, footballer and football manager (died 2004)
• 21 January –Laurence Whistler, poet and artist (died 2000)
• 3 February –John Bryan Ward-Perkins, archaeologist (died 1981)
• 6 February –Christopher Hill, historian (died 2003)
• 8 February
  • Ann Lambton, historian (died 2008)
  • Richard Southern, historian (died 2001)
• 12 February
  • Eric Barker, comedy actor (died 1990)
  • Gabrielle Brune, actress (died 2005)
• 11 February –Roy Fuller, poet and novelist (died 1991)
• 13 February
  • Jenny Laird, actress (died 2001)
  • Margaretta Scott, actress (died 2005)
• 20 February –Olive Cook, writer and artist (died 2002)
• 27 February –Lawrence Durrell, writer (born in India; died 1990)
• 4 March –Judith Furse, character actress (died 1974)
• 5 March –David Astor, editor ofThe Observer newspaper (died 2001)
• 10 March
  • Muriel Angelus, actress (died 2004)
  • Frank Smithies, mathematician (died 2002)
• 14 March –Vernon Harrison, photographer (died 2001)
• 19 March –Bill Frankland, immunologist (died 2020)
• 23 March –Betty Astell, actress (died 2005)
• 25 March –Melita Norwood, née Sirnis, secret agent (died 2005)
• 27 March
  • James Callaghan,Prime Minister (died 2005)
  • John Crofton, medical pioneer (died 2009)
• 29 March –Constance Chapman, actress (died 2003)
• 5 April
  • John Le Mesurier, actor (died 1983)
  • Bill Roberts, athlete (died 2001)
• 18 April –Sandy Glen, explorer (died 2004)
• 22 April –Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
• 4 May –Frith Banbury, actor and theatre director (died 2008)
• 7 May –Frank Reginald Carey, fighter pilot (died 2004)
• 10 May –Edward Gardner, politician (died 2001)
• 17 May –Percy M. Young, musicologist and composer (died 2004)
• 19 May –Noel Mander, organ builder (died 2005)
• 22 May –Herbert C. Brown, chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
• 28 May –Derek Cooper, soldier and campaigner for refugees (died 2007)
• 31 May –Alfred Deller, countertenor (died 1979)
• 8 June –Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, artist (died 2004)
• 9 June –Gerald James Whitrow, mathematician and cosmologist (died 2000)
• 10 June –William Gordon Harris, civil engineer (died 2005)
• 16 June –Enoch Powell, politician (died 1998)
• 19 June –Archie Butterworth, racing car designer (died 2005)
• 20 June
  • Anthony Buckeridge, children's author (died 2004)
  • Olive Hirst, advertising agent (died 1994)^[16]
• 23 June –Alan Turing, mathematician (died 1954)^[17]
• 24 June
  • Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator (died 1994)
  • Mary Wesley, novelist (died 2002)
• 30 June –Arthur Walter James, journalist and Liberal Party politician (died 2015)
• 11 July –Peta Taylor, cricketer (died 1989)
• 12 July –Joseph Gold, lawyer (died 2000)
• 17 July –Michael Gilbert, lawyer and crime fiction writer (died 2006)
• 21 July –Tommy Butler, Detective Chief Superintendent (died 1970)
• 30 July –Anne Ridler, poet and editor (died 2001)
• 31 July –Peter John Stephens, writer (died 2002)
• 5 August –Peggy Guido, archaeologist (died 1994)
• 7 August –Paul Hawkins, politician (died 2002)
• 13 August –Terence Wilmot Hutchison, economist (died 2007)
• 15 August –Wendy Hiller, actress (died 2003)
• 16 August –Ted Drake, footballer (died 1995)
• 17 August –Margaret Scriven, tennis player (died 2001)
• 26 August
  • John Tinniswood, supercentenarian, world’s oldest living man from 29 June 2024 to 25 November 2024 (died2024)
  • Alex Stuart-Menteth, naval officer (died 2000)
• 28 August –George Alcock, astronomer (died 2000)
• 1 September –Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician (died 2005)
• 2 September –David Daiches, literary critic (died 2005)
• 11 September –Robin Jenkins, novelist (died 2005)
• 18 September –Frank Farmer, physicist (died 2004)
• 24 September –Ian Serraillier, novelist and poet (died 1994)
• 28 September –Peter Finch, actor (died 1977)
• 2 October –Eric Wilson, soldier (died 2008)
• 10 October –Clare Fell, archaeologist (died 2002)
• 12 October –Doreen Gorsky, politician and television producer (died 2001)
• 24 October –Peter Gellhorn, composer and conductor (born in Germany; died 2004)
• 27 October –Grahame Farr, maritime historian (died 1983)
• 28 October –Richard Doll, epidemiologist (died 2005)
• 30 October –Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson, judge (died 2005)
• 5 November –Paul Dehn, screenwriter and poet (died 1976)
• 7 November –Alex Henshaw, test pilot (died 2007)
• 12 November –Kenneth Porter, Air Force officer (died 2003)
• 13 November –John Hill, politician (died 2007)
• 25 November –Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (died 1998)
• 14 December –Desmond Fitzpatrick, general (died 2002)
• 27 December
  • Conroy Maddox, painter (died 2005)
  • Cyril Philips, historian (died 2005)

• 7 January –Sophia Jex-Blake, physician and feminist (born 1840)
• 14 January –Samuel Johnson, railway locomotive engineer (Midland Railway) (born 1831)
• 24 January –James Allen, self-help writer and poet (born 1864)
• 29 January –Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Scottish aristocrat and politician (born 1849)
• 10 February –Joseph Lister, surgeon (born 1827)
• 13 February –Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 1832)
• 17 February –Edgar Evans, Welsh-born naval officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole (born 1876)
• 21 February –Osborne Reynolds, physicist (born 1842)
• 28 February –Bill Storer, footballer and cricketer (born 1867)
• 1 March –George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (born 1847)
• 17 March –Lawrence Oates, army officer, member of the Scott expedition (born 1880)
• 29 March – remaining members of the Scott expedition:
  • Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish-born naval officer (born 1883)
  • Robert Falcon Scott, naval officer and explorer (born 1868)
  • Edward Wilson, physician and naturalist (born 1872)
• 15 April – some victims of thesinking of the RMSTitanic:
  • Thomas Andrews, Jr., shipbuilder (born 1873)
  • Dai Bowen, boxer (born 1891)
  • Thomas Byles, Catholic priest (born 1870)
  • Sidney Leslie Goodwin, youngest victim (born 1910)
  • Wallace Hartley, ship's band leader and violinist (born 1878)
  • William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer (born 1873)
  • Jack Phillips, ship's senior wireless officer (born 1887)
  • Edward Smith, ship's captain (born 1850)
  • William Thomas Stead, campaigning journalist (born 1849)
• 18 April –Frederick Seddon, poisoner, hanged (born 1872)
• 20 April –Bram Stoker, writer (born 1847)^[18]
• 24 April –Justin McCarthy, Irish nationalist politician, historian and novelist (born 1830)
• 21 May –Sir Julius Wernher, businessman and art collector (born 1850 in Germany)
• 13 June –Alice Diehl, novelist and concert pianist (born 1844)
• 24 June –Sir George White, field marshal (born 1835)
• 25 June –Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter (born 1836 in the Netherlands)
• 2 July –Tom Richardson, cricketer (born 1870)
• 20 July –Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist and critic (born 1844)
• 31 July –Allan Octavian Hume, civil servant and ornithologist in India (born 1829)
• 13 August –Octavia Hill, social reformer (born 1838)
• 20 August
  • William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
  • Walter Goodman, painter, illustrator and author (born 1838)
• 1 September –Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (born 1875)
• 6 September –Sir Charles Gough, general and Victoria Cross recipient (born 1832)
• 28 September –Frederick Richards, admiral (born 1833)
• 30 September –Frances Allitsen, song composer (born 1848)
• 8 November –Dugald Drummond, Scottish-born railway locomotive engineer (born 1840)
• 17 November –Richard Norman Shaw, architect (born 1831)
• 25 November – SirEdward Moss, theatrical impresario (born 1852)
• 14 December –Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, explorer and officer, lost on Antarctic expedition (born 1887)

• List of British films before 1920

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