1911 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1911 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Undated 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

[edit] Events

• 3 January - In London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists held up in a building in the East End.
• 14 June - Liverpool General Transport Strike begins.
• 22 June - Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 13 July - The future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
• 9 August - Raunds, Northamptonshire records a temperature of 98°F (36.7°C), the highest UK temperature until 1990.
• 10 August - British MPs vote to receive salaries for the first time. ^[1]
• 17 August - During a railway strike in Llanelli, two men are shot dead by police.
• 20 September - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton.
• 6 October - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton.

[edit] Undated

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica published.

[edit] Births

• 19 February - Merle Oberon, actress (d. 1979)
• 15 March - Ursula Vaughan Williams, author
• 27 March - Erich Heller, philosopher (d. 1990)
• 3 April - Michael Woodruff, pioneering transplant surgeon (d. 2001)
• 23 April - Ronald Neame, film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
• 15 June - W.V. Awdry, children's writer (d. 1997)
• 9 July - Mervyn Peake, writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
• 17 July - Ted Anderson, footballer (d. 1979)
• 27 August - Kay Walsh, actress (d. 2005)
• 19 September - William Golding, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
• 10 October - Clare Hollingworth, journalist
• 12 November - Chad Varah, priest and humanitarian (d. 2007)
• 11 December - Val Guest, film director (d. 2006)
• 27 December - Anna Russell, comedian and singer (d. 2006)

[edit] Deaths

• 17 January - Sir Francis Galton, explorer and biologist (b. 1822)
• 21 May - Williamina Fleming, astronomer (b. 1857)
• 29 May - W. S. Gilbert, dramatist (b. 1836)
• 16 September - Edward Whymper, explorer (b. 1840)
• 7 October - John Hughlings Jackson, neurologist (b. 1835)
• 10 December - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (b. 1817)
• William George Aston, consular official (b. 1841)

[edit] References