naval officer (died 2008) Georgina Cookson, actress (died 2011) 21 December Frank Hampson, illustrator (died 1985) Rosemary Verey, garden designer (died 2001) 25 December Angelica Garnett, writer and painter (died 2012) Bertie Mee, football player and manager (died 2001) 26 December – Lady Elizabeth Clyde, socialite (died 2013) 30 December – David Muirhead, diplomat (died 1999) 31 December – Fred Secombe, priest and writer (died 2016) Deaths 22 January – Sir John Wolfe Barry, architect and civil engineer, builder of Tower Bridge (born 1836) 5 February – Leonard Monteagle Barlow, fighter pilot (accident) (born 1898) 14 February – Sir Cecil Spring Rice, diplomat (born 1859) 23 February – Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, politician and colonial administrator (born 1836) 24 February – Sir Eric Barrington, civil servant (born 1847) 23 March – T. P. Cameron Wilson, poet and novelist (born 1888) 25 March – Walter Tull, footballer and first Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army (killed in action) (born 1888) 1 April – Isaac Rosenberg, painter and poet (killed in action) (born 1890) 9 July – James McCudden, fighter pilot (air crash) (born 1895) 26 July Henry Macintosh, Scottish Olympic sprinter (killed in action) (born 1892) Mick Mannock, fighter pilot (killed in action) (born 1887) 31 July – George McElroy, fighter pilot (killed in action) (born 1893) 12 September – Sir George Reid, Scottish-born Member of Parliament (UK), previously Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845) 1 October – Evelyn Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth, artistocrat and army officer (born 1847) 5 October – Robbie Ross, writer (born 1869) 7 October – Sir Hubert Parry, composer (born 1848) 24 October – Daniel Burley Woolfall, football administrator, 2nd President of FIFA (born 1852) 4 November – Wilfred Owen, poet (killed in action) (born 1893) 5 or 20 November – Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, occultist (born 1854) 9 November – Sir Peter Lumsden, Scottish Indian Army general (born 1829) 15 November – Sir Robert Anderson, police official (born 1841) 24 November – Annie Hall Cudlip, novelist, journalist and editor (born 1838) 29 November – Thomas Allinson, physician and dietetic reformer (born 1858) 27 December – Birt Acres, American-born pioneer of cinematography (born 1854) See also List of British films before 1920 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom