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Events relating to england
The British liner Lusitania sets a new record for the Atlantic crossing, on the first of four such occasions
Robert Baden-Powell publishes Scouting for Boys, the success of which leads to the establishment of the Scouts
Rat, Mole and Toad, in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, appeal to a wide readership
UK prime minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns because of ill health and is followed as Liberal leader and prime mininster by Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George becomes chancellor of the exchequer in Asquith's new cabinet
The Liberal government in Britain introduces an old-age pension, albeit only five shillings a week.
German physicist Hans Geiger, working in England with Rutherford, develops an instrument that can detect and count alpha particles
The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts
Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge
Rugby Union acquires new headquarters and a state-of-the-art stadium at Twickenham
Vaughan Williams first symphony, which he names A Sea Symphony, is first performed at the Leeds Festival
The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
US entrepreneur Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on London's Oxford Street
Thomas Beecham uses his personal fortune from Beecham's Pills to found his first orchestra, the Beecham Symphony Orchestra
In response to fears of German espionage a Secret Service Bureau, later to be divided into MI5 and MI6, is set up in Britain
The Conservative majority in the House of Lords rejects Lloyd George's reforming budget, giving the Liberals the chance to call an election on an emotive issue
Edward VII dies in London, after just nine years on the throne
British prime minister Herbert Asquith leads the Liberal party to a narrow victory, in an election fought on the issue of the House of Lords
The wife of Harvey Crippen, an American doctor working in north London, vanishes mysteriously
Agnes Baden-Powell establishes the Girl Guides, an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts
Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester
The Liver Building, surmounted by two legendary Liver Birds, is completed in Liverpool
UK prime minister Herbert Asquith plans to reduce the power of the House of Lords, but the upper house as yet is certain to block any such bill
In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past
