car (self-built) on the public highway. Undated Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay. Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes. Alfred Harmsworth buys the London Evening News newspaper. Grace Kimmins founds the Guild of the Poor Brave Things for the education of crippled boys. The National College of Music is founded by the Moss family in London. Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff; by 2010 it will be regarded the world's oldest surviving record shop. Publications Edward Carpenter's book Homogenic Love, and its place in a free society. Arthur Conan Doyle's collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. George du Maurier's novel Trilby (serialised). Robert Hichens' anonymous satirical novel The Green Carnation. Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda; also his collected sketches The Dolly Dialogues, the first major commission for the illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Jungle Book (in book form). The Yellow Book begins publication (April). Births 18 January – Ethel Haythornthwaite, born Ward, environmental campaigner (died 1986) 10 February – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1986) 7 March – Frank Halford, aeronautical engineer (died 1955) 5 April – Chesney Allen, entertainer and singer (died 1982) 9 May – Benjamin Graham, born Grossbaum, economist in the United States (died 1976 in France) 1 June – Percival Mackey, pianist, composer and bandleader (died 1950) 6 June – Violet Trefusis, writer and socialite (died 1972) 23 June – King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor (died 1972 in France) 26 July – Aldous Huxley, author (died 1963) 28 July – Freda Dudley Ward, born Winifred Birkin, socialite (died 1983) 13 September – J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (died 1984) 24 September – Tommy Armour, golfer (died 1968) 24 November – Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (died 1978) 25 December – Xenia Field, councillor, horticulturalist and author (born in India; died 1998) Deaths 20 January – Robert Halpin, mariner and cable layer (born 1836) 27 January – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, sculptor and natural history artist (born 1807) 8 February – R. M. Ballantyne, Scottish author of juvenile fiction (born 1825) (dies in Rome) 15 February – Martial Bourdin, French anarchist (born 1868) (accidentally kills himself while attempting to blow up the Royal Observatory, Greenwich) 9 April – Arthur Hill Hassall, physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst (born 1817) (dies in Sanremo) 29 April – Augusta Theodosia Drane, religious writer and