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

Stands A and B are built and the South Terrace is started at Twickenham Rugby ground .

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

Edward Carson, previously a prominent Conservative politician at Westminster, becomes leader of the Ulster Unionist party

Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester

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

Fritz Kreisler is the soloist in the first performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto

Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back

Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole

Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government

John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories

Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight

The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art

Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic

H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence

Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British

The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories

Whitton Park estate is bought for housing and the house is demolished.

E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family

The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company

Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays