1921 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - David Lloyd George, coalition

[edit] Events

• 1 January - Car tax discs introduced.^[1]
• January 3 - The airships R.36 and R.37 are completed.
• 8 January - Chequers becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister.^[1]
• January 14 - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
• January 20 - The Royal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
• January 26 - Seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide in Montgomeryshire.
• February 12 - Winston Churchill is appointed Colonial Secretary.
• February 16 - Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
• March 11 - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree by Oxford University.
• March 16 - The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
• March 17 - Andrew Bonar Law, the Conservative leader, resigns due to ill-health.
• March 17 - Dr Marie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's first birth control clinic in Holloway, London.^[1]
• March 21 - Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
• March 26 - Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National.
• March 31 - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
• April 3 - Coal rationing begins.
• April 13 - Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Co, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
• April 15 - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
• April 23 - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
• April 26 - Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
• May 4 - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill a former Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) inspector in Glasgow.
• May 7 - Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
• May 10 - Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of the English Bar.^[2]
• May 22 - The USA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
• May 24 - In general elections for the new Northern Ireland Parliament, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. One-party rule will last for fifty years.
• June 1 - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
• June 6 - King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
• June 7 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament assembles.
• June 10 - Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
• June 12 - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.
• June 15 - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
• June 22 - King George V opens the first Northern Ireland Parliament.
• June 24 - The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
• June 25 - Rainfall ends a 100-day drought.
• June 28 - The coal strike ends.
• July 2 - Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
• July 7 - General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
• July 12 - Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
• July 18 - Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
• August 19 - Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
• August 24 - The airship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
• August 30 - England beat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
• September 9 - Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
• 17 September - Shackleton-Rowett Expedition: Ernest Shackleton sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica.^[3]
• September 23 - The second female Member of Parliament enters Parliament.
• October 8 - The steamer Rowan sinks off the coast of Scotland. 36 people lose their lives.
• October 11 - The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.
• November 21 - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
• November 22 - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
• November 30 - Sir Basil Thompson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
• December 7 - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to the Irish Free State.
• December 16 - Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

• Frederick Soddy wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes".^[4]

[edit] Births

• 13 March - Cyril Poole, cricketer (died 1996)
• 28 March - Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (died 1999)
• 16 April - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (died 2004)
• 14 July - Leon Garfield, writer (died 1996)
• 8 September - Harry Secombe, entertainer (died 2001)
• 2 October - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)
• 11 November - Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager (died 2006)

[edit] Deaths

• 27 February - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (b. 1871)
• 22 March - Ernest William Hornung, author (b. 1866)
• 27 April - Arthur Mold, cricketer (b. 1863)
• 2 September - Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
• 7 September - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter (b. 1856)
• 23 October - John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (b. 1840)
• George Ashlin, architect (b. 1837)

[edit] References