1931 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1931 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 4.1 Unknown dates 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, Labour and national coalition

[edit] Events

• 6 January - Sadler's Wells Theatre opens in London. ^[1]
• 12 June - Charlie Parker equals J.T. Hearne's record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets.
• 24 August - Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain and is replaced by National Government of people drawn from all parties also under MacDonald.
• 15 September - The Invergordon Mutiny: Strikes in Royal Navy due to decreased salaries.
• 11 December - Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

• The Vic-Wells Ballet, later to become the Royal Ballet, debuts in London. ^[2]

[edit] Births

• 10 January - Peter Barnes, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 2 February - Les Dawson, comedian (d. 1993)
• 24 February - Brian Close, cricket player
• 26 February - Ally McLeod, football manager
• March 14 - Frank Sando, long-distance runner
• March 19 - Alan Newton, track cyclist
• April 7 - Jeff Elliott, decathlete and pole vaulter
• 29 April - Lonnie Donegan, musician (d. 2002)
• 7 June - Malcolm Morley, painter
• 28 August - John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone
• 22 September - Fay Weldon, author
• 22 September - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, politician (d. 2003)
• 19 October - John le Carré, novelist
• 23 October - Diana Dors, actress (d. 1984)
• November 9 - Eric Sandstrom, track and field sprinter

[edit] Deaths

• 11 February - Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor (b. 1854)
• 5 March - Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1839)
• 17 March - James Stewart, Scottish Labour Party politician, MP for Glasgow St. Rollox 1922–1931 (born 1863).
• 30 April - Sammy Woods, cricketer (b. 1867)
• 13 June - Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, businessman (b. 1850)
• 5 September - John Thomson, footballer (b. 1909)
• 2 October - Thomas Lipton, merchant and yachtsman (b. 1850)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Alfred Maudslay, colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist (b. 1850)
• Lancelot Speed, illustrator (b. 1860)
• Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (b. 1857)

[edit] References