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- aeroplane | Richard Haldane | 01/06/1908
- antibiotics | Barnett Stross | 01/07/1949
- atomic | Richard Bethell, Baron Westbury | 18/06/1869
- bicycle | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley | 25/07/1870
- bisexual | Robert Lowe | 11/04/1870
- boffin | Philip Noel-Baker | 17/03/1947
- bollocks | Alec Woodall | 05/02/1986
- bonk | Tufton Beamish | 12/12/1960 [N.B. Beamish used the word in a mangled attempt to deliver the joke, "What goes ninety-nine bonk?" "A centipede with a wooden leg."]
- bouncy castle | Jonathan Evans | 29/11/1994
- cheeseburger | Harry Barnes | 23/06/1989
- cigarette | Charles Cowan | 12/05/1852
- climate change | Margaret Thatcher | 04/07/1973 [N.B. The term 'climatic change' was more commonly used before Thatcher became the first to use the modern term.]
- communist | Miles Stapleton | 11/08/1846
- computer | Frank Byers| 17/10/1945 [N.B. I believe Byers to have used the word to mean “someone who computes”, rather than a machine. Richard Fort used the term in its modern meaning on 12th March 1951.]
- cyber | John Redwood | 02/03/1995
- dalek | William Hamling | 15/04/1965
- digital | Henry Petty-FitzMaurice | 29/05/1907
- doorknob | Basil Peto | 24/11/1911
- electricity | Edmund Burke | 14/05/1781
- escalator | Francis Bennett-Goldney | 14/07/1914
- football | Stephen Lushington | 09/04/1824
- fucking | Eric Lubbock, Baron Avebury | 23/04/1996
- Game Boy | John Redwood | 02/03/1995
- garage | William Field | 29/10/1906
- genetic | Arthur Griffith-Boscawen | 25/03/1920
- global | Charles Burney | 13/11/1928
- graffiti | Maurice Edelman | 29/03/1957
- heterosexual | Roy Jenkins | 29/03/1957 [N.B. Jenkins' use came minutes after the first use of the word 'heterosexuality' in the same debate.]
- homosexual | George Benson | 05/03/1936
- incentivise | Michael Heseltine | 24/03/1986
- internet | Emma Nicholson | 09/02/1990 [N.B. John Cordle made an earlier use of the word ‘Internet’ in 1974. I believe this properly referred to a brand of radio set.]
- Jabberwocky | Herbert Morrison | 26/02/1952
- kangaroo | Henry Francis Roper-Curzon, Baron Teynham | 20/12/1830
- lesbian | Bertrand Dawson, Viscount Dawson| 07/07/1937 [N.B. John Bowring had used the demonym Lesbian, to mean ‘of Lesbos’ in a debate on duty on foreign wines in 1847.]
- MI5 | William Benn | 07/03/1922
- MI6 | Noel Billing | 19/03/1918
- Ouija | Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner | 03/12/1969
- penis | Henry Chaplin, Viscount Chaplin | 06/08/1919
- pizza | Terence O’Neill, Baron O’Neill | 03/03/1971
- PlayStation | Lord Campbell of Croy | 26/01/1998
- plywood | Herbert Nield | 13/03/1919
- plutonium | Frederick Maugham | 16/10/1945
- Pokémon | Barry Gardiner | 12/05/2000
- posh | William Cove | 24/03/1930
- radio | Edward Sassoon | 04/12/1906
- radioactive | William Anstruther-Gray | 28/06/1911
- robot | Shapurji Saklatvala | 19/03/1925
- socialism | Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter | 24/01/1840
- spiv | Frederick Lee | 11/03/1947
- supermarket | Frank Beswick | 16/06/1953
- sustainability | John Stanley | 22/10/1984
- teenager | David Hardman | 04/05/1950
- telephone | Alexander Beresford-Hope | 31/01/1878
- television | Harry Brittain | 15/11/1926 [N.B. Amusingly, the sentence itself was: “It may be possible that some evil genius in the future will invent some method of television. I hope not.”]
- tennis | John Heywood Hawkins | 19/04/1831 [N.B. Hawkins was referring to the Tennis Court Oath. There are definite earlier unattributed mentions than this, in part because the Exchequer was responsible for paying for a keeper of the tennis court.]
- top hat | William Henry Smith | 16/03/1885
- transgender | Roseanna Cunningham | 31/03/1998
- uranium | Lewis Harcourt | 31/07/1913 [N.B. uranium had been used in the context of a ship name in 1911.]
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