Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger, ridden by Herbert Jones. Publications Ernest Bramah's oriental fantasy stories The Wallet of Kai Lung. Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. Maurice Hewlett's historical novel The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay. Gertrude Jekyll's book Home and Garden: notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both. Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthology The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900. H. G. Wells' novel Love and Mr Lewisham. Births 1 January Roger Maxwell, film actor (died 1971) Lillian Rich, silent film actress (died 1954) 2 January – Una Ledingham, physician, specialist in diabetes mellitus and pregnancy (died 1965) 4 January – William Young, World War I veteran (died 2007) 20 January – Dorothy Annan, painter, potter and muralist (died 1983) 23 January – William Ifor Jones, composer (died 1988) 6 February – Guy Warrack, Scottish-born conductor (died 1986) 12 February Robert Boothby, politician (died 1986) Fred Emney, comic performer (died 1980) 20 February – Bernard Knowles, cinematographer and screenwriter (died 1975) 3 March Edna Best, stage, film and early television actress (died 1974 in Switzerland) Basil Bunting, modernist poet (died 1985) 29 March – Margaret Sinclair, Scottish-born nun (died 1925) 31 March – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974) 3 April – Albert Ingham, mathematician (died 1967) 9 April – Mary Potter, painter (died 1981) 19 April – Richard Hughes, novelist (died 1976) 22 April – Nellie Beer, Conservative politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988) 24 April – Elizabeth Goudge, novelist (died 1984) 25 April – Gladwyn Jebb, acting Secretary-General of the UN (died 1996) 30 April – Cecily Lefort, World War II heroine, spy for SOE (executed 1945 in Germany) 2 May – A. W. Lawrence, Classical archaeologist (died 1991) 5 May – Harold Tamblyn-Watts, comic strip artist (died 1999) 10 May – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979 in the United States) 27 May – Ethel Lang, née Lancaster, supercentenarian (died 2015) 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor (died 1967) 30 May – Gerald Gardiner, Lord Chancellor (died 1990) 6 June Arthur Askey, comedian (died 1982) Lester Matthews, actor (died 1975) 17 June – Evelyn Irons, Scottish-born journalist, war correspondent (died 2000) 25 June Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment (died 2006) Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet and last Viceroy