1912 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

17 January - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.^[1]
1 March - Suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London.^[2]
16 March - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."^[1]
19 March - Minimum wage introduced for miners after strike threats.^[2]
29 March - the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.^[1]
11 April - Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.^[2]
14/15 April - Sinking of the RMS Titanic.^[1]
2 May - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of Titanic begins.
5 May–22 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
13 May - the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
15 July - the National Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducing National Insurance payments.^[1]
August - Cabinet ministers accused of corruption in the Marconi scandal.^[2]
5 November - Establishments of the British Board of Film Censors.^[1]
12 November - the bodies of Captain Scott and his team found in the Antarctic.^[1]
18 December - Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London. It was revealed to be a hoax in 1953.^[1]

1 January - Kim Philby, spy (died 1988)
11 February - Roy Fuller, poet and novelist (died 1991)
27 February - Lawrence Durrell, writer (died 1990)
4 March - Judith Furse, character actress (died 1974)
5 March - David Astor, newspaper publisher (died 2001)
23 March - Betty Astell, actress (died 2005)
27 March - James Callaghan, Prime Minister (died 2005)
5 April - John Le Mesurier, actor (died 1983)
22 April - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
22 May - Herbert C. Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
31 May - Alfred Deller, countertenor (died 1979)
23 June - Alan Turing, mathematician (died 1954)
24 June
- Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator (died 1994)
- Mary Wesley, novelist (died 2002)
16 August - Ted Drake, footballer (died 1995)
16 August - Wendy Hiller, actress (died 2003)
28 September - Peter Finch, actor (died 1977)
25 November - Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (died 1998)
27 December - Conroy Maddox, painter (died 2005)

10 February - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (born 1827)
21 February - Osborne Reynolds, physicist (born 1842)
1 March - George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (born 1847)
17 February - Edgar Evans, naval officer (born 1876), member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole
17 March - Lawrence Oates, army officer (born 1880), member of the Scott Expedition
29 March - Remaining members of the Scott Expedition:
- Henry Robertson Bowers (born 1883)
- Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (born 1868)
- Edward Adrian Wilson, physician and naturalist (born 1872)
15 April - Some victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
- Thomas Andrews, Jr., shipbuilder (born 1873)
- Father Thomas R. D. Byles, Catholic priest (born 1870)
- Edward Smith, ship's captain (born 1850)
- William Thomas Stead, journalist (born 1849)
20 April - Bram Stoker, writer (born 1847)
21 May - Julius Wernher, art collector (born 1850)
2 July - Tom Richardson, cricketer (born 1870)
13 August - Octavia Hill, social reformer (born 1838)
20 August - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
1 September - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (born 1875)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 346-347. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.