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1873 in the United Kingdom

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1873 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1873 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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Undated

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Publications

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Births

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  • 7 February – Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (died 1912 in sinking of the Titanic)[5]
  • 17 March – Margaret Bondfield, politician and trade unionist (died 1953)
  • 19 April – Sydney Barnes, cricketer (died 1967)
  • 25 April – Walter de la Mare, poet, short story writer and novelist (died 1956)
  • 26 April – Roy Redgrave, silent film actor (died 1922)
  • 8 May – Nevil Sidgwick, chemist (died 1952)
  • 17 May – Dorothy Richardson, feminist writer (died 1957)
  • 15 June – Leonora Cohen, née Throp, suffragette, trade unionist and feminist (died 1978)
  • 21 July – Sir Morley Fletcher, physiologist and administrator (died 1933)
  • 11 August – Bertram Mills, circus manager (died 1938)
  • 25 September – Fawcet Wray, British admiral (died 1932)
  • 21 November – Sir Vernon Kell ('K'), first director of MI5 (died 1942)
  • 22 November – Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (died 1930)
  • 17 December – Ford Madox Ford, né Hueffer, novelist and literary editor (died 1939)
  • 21 December – Bertram Dickson, Scottish soldier, explorer and pioneer aviator; involved in the world's first mid-air collision (died 1913)
  • 22 December – Lily Montagu, pioneer of reform Judaism (died 1963)
  • 26 December – Thomas Wass, Nottinghamshire cricketer (died 1953)

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 295–296. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. ^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 288. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
  3. ^ "Alice Vickery". rpharms.com. Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  4. ^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836–1917)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Thomas Andrews | Irish ship designer | Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 15 April 2022.