1903 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1903 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

1 January - Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
12 February - Randall Davidson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, a position he will hold for 25 years.^[1]
19 January - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and Britain.
27 January - Fire at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum kills 51.^[2]
3 March - British admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth.
24 March & 3 May - Derby earthquakes.^[3]
1 April - Midwives Act 1902 comes into effect, regulating the profession of midwifery.
14 April - Aberdeen Football Club is established.
18 April - Bury FC beat Derby County by a record 6 goals to nil to win the 1903 FA Cup Final - the score is still the record highest win in any FA Cup final to this day.
23 April - Budget removes Corn Duty.
29 May - Bradford City Football Club is established.
19 June - Caernarfon earthquake.
7 July - British take over the Fulani empire.
14 September - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary.
10 October - Foundation of the militant Women's Social and Political Union by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in Manchester.^[4]
31 October - Opening of Hampden Park football ground in Glasgow in Scotland.^[4]
October - Opening of Willow Tearooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Catherine Cranston.
2 November - Daily Mirror newspaper published for the first time.^[4]

Ty·phoo Tipps tea first marketed.^[5]
Rock Sand wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.
William Randal Cremer wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[6]
The remains of "Cheddar Man" are found within Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, dating to approximately 7150 BCE.^[7]

Edward Harold Begbie's novel Lost in Blunderland (under the pseudonym Caroline Lewis).
Samuel Butler's semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (posthumous).
George Gissing's semi-autobiographical novel The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.
John Morley's biography The Life of Gladstone, which sells more than 25,000 copies in its first year.^[8]

22 February - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician (died 1930)
4 March - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (died 1990)
24 March - Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist, author and media personality (died 1990)
31 March - H. J. Blackham, humanist and author (died 2009)
15 April - John Williams, actor (died 1983)
20 May - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (died 1975)
29 May - Bob Hope, British-born comedian (died 2003)
19 June - Wally Hammond, cricketer (died 1965)
25 June - George Orwell, author (died 1950)
29 June - Alan Blumlein, electronics engineer (died 1942)
1 July - Amy Johnson, aviator (died 1941)
2 July - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister (died 1995)
10 July - John Wyndham, author (died 1969)
13 July - Kenneth Clark, art historian (died 1983)
7 August - Louis Leakey, archaeologist (died 1972)
23 August - William Primrose, violist (died 1982)
24 August - Graham Sutherland, artist (died 1980)
9 September - Edward Upward, author (died 2009)
28 October - Evelyn Waugh, writer (died 1966)
1 November - Max Adrian, actor (died 1973)
5 December - Cecil Frank Powell, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)
10 December - Mary Norton, children's author (died 1992)
12 December - A. L. Rowse, historian (died 1997)

17 January - Quintin Hogg, philanthropist (born 1845)
1 February - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist (born 1819)
7 February - James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (born 1809)
4 March - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (born 1834)
13 March - George Granville Bradley, vicar and scholar (born 1821)
19 June - Herbert Vaughan, Catholic cardinal and archbishop (born 1832)
11 July - W. E. Henley, poet, critic, and editor (born 1849)
5 August - Phil May, artist (born 1864)
22 August - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1830)
18 September - Alexander Bain, philosopher (born 1818)
8 December - Herbert Spencer, philosopher (born 1820)
28 December - George Gissing, novelist (born 1857)

^ Mews, Stuart (2004). "Davidson, Randall Thomas, Baron Davidson of Lambeth (1848–1930)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32733. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
^ "London Fire Journal". 2010. http://londonfirejournal.blogspot.com/2010/01/colney-hatch-1903.html. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
^ Davison, C. (1904). "The Derby earthquakes of March 24th-May 3rd 1903". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 60: 215–232. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1904.060.01-04.18.
^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Baren, Maurice (1997). How Household Names Began. London: Michael O'Mara Books. pp. 127–9. ISBN 1-85479-257-1.
^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1903
^ "Gough's Cave excavation". Natural History Museum. http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?search=cave&getnext=89335. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
^ Parsons, Nicholas (1985). The Book of Literary Lists. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99171-2.

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