1874 in the United Kingdom

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1874 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1874 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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• 23 January - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.
• 23 February - Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis. ^[1]
• 5 March - Conservative Party under Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield win the general election despite polling fewer votes than the Liberal Party under William Ewart Gladstone.

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• Scottish football team Heart of Midlothian F.C. founded.

[edit] Births

• 20 January - Steve Bloomer, footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1938)
• 25 January - William Somerset Maugham, author (d. 1965)
• 11 February - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer (d. 1949)
• 15 February - Ernest Shackleton, explorer (d. 1922)
• 9 May - Howard Carter, archaeologist (d. 1939)
• 19 May - Gilbert Jessop, cricketer (d. 1955)
• 29 May - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author (d. 1936)
• 21 September - Gustav Holst, composer (d. 1934)
• 15 October - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1899)
• 26 October - Martin Lowry, chemist (d. 1936)
• 30 November - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1965)

[edit] Deaths

• 24 April - John Phillips, geologist (b. 1800)
• 21 November - William Jardine, naturalist (b. 1800)

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