He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

* 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, British politician and campaigner for disabled rights ( b. 1922 )

The Auger emission process was discovered in 1922 by Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist, as a side effect in her competitive search for the nuclear beta electrons with the British physicist Charles Drummond Ellis.

After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.

This interpretation was supported explicitly by the British government in the 1922 White Paper.

Both the Zionist Organization and the British government devoted efforts over the following decades, including Winston Churchill's 1922 White Paper, to denying that a state was the intention.

Nevertheless, while this led to Egypt's independence in 1922, British troops remained in the country until 1956.

There was a general reduction in the number of cavalry regiments in the British, French, Italian and other Western armies but it was still argued with conviction ( for example in the 1922 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) that mounted troops had a major role to play in future warfare.

Dublin Castle was the fortified seat of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British rule in Ireland until 1922.

* 1922 – Patrick Macnee, British actor

* 1922 – Denis Norden, British television personality

* 1922 – Margaret Leighton, British actress ( d. 1976 )

* 1922 – Francis Pym, British Foreign Secretary 1982-83 ( d. 2008 )

* 1922 – Joyce Howard, British film actress ( d. 2010 )

* 2006 – Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur ( b. 1922 )

The British Mandate ( in effect, British rule ) of Palestine, including the Balfour Declaration, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and came into effect in 1923.

When the government's enemies attacked Tirana in early 1922, Zogu stayed in the capital and, with the support of the British ambassador, repulsed the assault.

Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony in October 1923, subsequent to a 1922 referendum.

In 1922 British officials concluded the Treaty of Mohammara with Abd al Aziz ibn Abd ar Rahman Al Saud, who in 1932 formed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations ; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.

* John Wesley Brown ( 1873 – 1944 ), British Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East, 1922 – 1923

* 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer ( d. 2008 )

* 1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer, architect, engineer, and theorist ( d. 2001 )

Originally heated by slow-burning coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén ( 1869 – 1937 ), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company ( Swedish: Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, English: Joint stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator ).

* Alan Voorhees ( 1922 – 2005 ), engineer and urban planner.

Their parents were Joseph Charles Duncan ( 1819 – 1898 ), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray ( 1849 – 1922 ).

He originally trained as a marine engineer and in 1922 he took a degree in engineering via the University of London External Programme.

Ralph H. Baer ( born March 8, 1922 ) is a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as " The Father of Video Games ", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry.

James Clement Dooge ( 30 July 1922 – 20 August 2010 ) was an Irish politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala ( 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922 ) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Polish-Jewish and Dutch ethnicity.

Born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois, on January 17, 1922, she is the daughter of Tess Curtis ( née Cachikis ), a homemaker, and Horace Lawrence White, a traveling salesman and electrical engineer.

* John Forrest Kelly ( 1859 – 1922 ), Irish-born American electrical engineer

* May 28-Edward Hopkinson ( died 1922 ), English electrical engineer.

First such automobile ( a prototype ) to have a tear-drop shape and have the wheels within the body was the Persu automobile ( 1922 ), with an astounding drag coefficient of 0. 22, built by Romanian engineer Aurel Persu.

* March 3-Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone ( died 1922 )

A prominent scientist and engineer known for his invention of the steam turbine, he spent about 40 years ( 1882 – 1922 ) and a considerable part of his fortune trying to reproduce the experiments of Moissan and Hannay, but also adapted processes of his own.

There were three sons: ( John ) Peter Mills Tizard, who became a professor of paediatrics at the University of London ; Richard Henry Tizard ( b. 1917 ), an engineer and senior tutor at Churchill College, Cambridge ; and David ( b. 1922 ), a general practitioner in London.

Rolf Mellde ( 1922 – March 2009 ) was an engineer specialized in engines and a car racing enthusiast.

* Alexander Graham Bell ( 1847 – 1922 ), Scottish-American scientist, engineer, teacher and inventor

* Ian McDonald Campbell ( born 1922 ), British civil engineer

Alfredo Bensaúde, an engineer, was IST's first dean ( 1911 – 1922 ) and promoted a wide-rang reform in the Portuguese higher technical education, including the first engineering courses at IST: mining, civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical-industrial.

* John Joseph Martin ( born 1922 ), NASA engineer and administrator

Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE ( 3 December 1859 – 14 February 1934 ) was chief mechanical engineer of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922.

John George Robinson CBE, ( 30 July 1856 – 7 December 1943 ) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Central Railway from 1900 to 1922.

He remained in that post until 1922, when prior to the Great Central's grouping into the London and North Eastern Railway he declined the post of chief mechanical engineer of the LNER, choosing instead to step aside for the younger Nigel Gresley.