Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

In 1899 the British Isles touring side returned to Australia for the first time since the unofficial tour of 1888.

By 1888, over 3, 000 British public houses, grocers and chemists were selling Bovril.

The Cook Islands became a British protectorate in 1888.

The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.

1888 — Cook Islands are proclaimed a British protectorate and a single federal parliament is established.

* 1822 – Matthew Arnold, British poet ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )

However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

* 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright ( d. 1965 )

At University of Michigan, Dewey published his first two books, Psychology ( 1887 ), and Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding ( 1888 ), both of which expressed Dewey's early commitment to British neo-Hegelianism.

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

* 1972 – Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner ( b. 1888 )

That turned out not to be so, and Philip Gell of the OUP forced the promotion of Murray's assistant Henry Bradley ( hired by Murray in 1884 ), who worked independently in the British Museum in London, beginning in 1888.

The protectorate, called British New Guinea, was annexed outright on 4 September 1888.

Five years later two important overseas tours took place ; a British Isles team visited Australia and New Zealand — although a private venture, it laid the foundations for future British and Irish Lions tours ; and the 1888 New Zealand Native team brought the first overseas team to British spectators.

The Convention of Constantinople in 1888 declared the canal a neutral zone under the protection of the British, who had occupied Egypt and Sudan at the request of Khedive Tewfiq to suppress the Urabi Revolt against his rule.

In 1888, Cecil Rhodes, spearheading British commercial and political interests in Central Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs.

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

* October 14 – Edith Evans, British actress ( b. 1888 )

* Cecil Banes-Walker ( 1888 – 1915 ), English first-class cricketer

* Cecil Charles Worster-Drought ( 1888 – 1971 ), English physician

* Cecil Potter ( born 1888 ), former professional manager

* Lamar Cecil, Albert Ballin ; business and politics in imperial Germany, 1888 – 1918 ( Princeton University Press, 1967 )

* Charles Cecil John Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland ( 1815 – 1888 ), third son of the 5th Duke, died unmarried

Rhodesia was named after Cecil Rhodes, the British empire-builder who was one of the most important figures in British expansion into southern Africa, and who obtained mineral rights in 1888 from the most powerful local traditional leaders through treaties such as the Rudd Concession and the Moffat Treaty signed by King Lobengula of the Ndebele.

In exchange for wealth and arms, Lobengula granted several concessions to the British, the most prominent of which is the 1888 Rudd concession giving Cecil Rhodes exclusive mineral rights in much of the lands east of his main territory.

Cecil Charles Worster-Drought ( 1888 – 27 October 1971 ) was an English physician.

Major Alfred Cecil Herring VC ( 26 October 1888 – 10 August 1966 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Nicholas is the son of Bridget ( née McCall ) and Harry Oppenheimer, and grandson of Ernest Oppenheimer, the first generation of the family to chair ( from 1929 ) the De Beers diamond mining company in South Africa, founded by Cecil John Rhodes in 1888.

With the discovery in 1886 of gold on the Witwatersrand, the firm appointed Hermann Eckstein as their representative in Johannesburg, while Cecil Rhodes and Beit effectively amalgamated the Kimberley diamond mines by 1888 and enabled Wernher, Beit & Co. to acquire a controlling interest in De Beers Consolidated Mines.

* Cecil Cunningham ( 1888 – 1959 ), actress

Sir Leonard Cecil Outerbridge, ( May 6, 1888 – September 6, 1986 ) was the second Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland from 1949 to 1957.

Charles Cecil John Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland KG ( 16 May 1815 – 3 March 1888, Belvoir Castle ), styled Marquess of Granby before 1857, was an English Conservative politician.

This production was revived in 1888, with Cecil, Eric Lewis and William Lugg playing Box, Cox and Bouncer.

* Charles Cecil John Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland ( 1815 – 1888 )

Rhodes concluded a treaty with Lobengula, promising 100 rifles in return for concessions encompassing most of Matebeleland. Thus, through deception, Beit founded the British South Africa Company in 1888.

In 1888 Beit moved to London whence he felt he was better able to manage his financial empire and support Rhodes in his Southern African ambitions.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, MC, RAF ( 18 July 1888 – 15 May 1953 ) was one of the most important influences on the rearmament of the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in the years up to and including the Second World War.

The Birmingham News was launched on March 14, 1888 by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $ 800 of operating capital.

Rufus Napoleon Rhodes ( June 5, 1856, Pascagoula, Mississippi – January 12, 1910, Birmingham, Alabama ) was the founder and managing editor of the Birmingham News from 1888 until his death.