1911 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1911 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

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.
• 31 May - Launching of the ocean liner RMS Titanic.^[1]
• 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.
  • the clock towers on the Royal Liver Building are started at the same moment as George V's coronation.^[1]
• Festival of Empire held at The Crystal Palace, London to celebrate the coronation.
• 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.
• 18 August - Official Secrets Act passed.^[2]
• 20 September - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke outside Southampton.
• 4 October - First electric escalators introduced , at Earl's Court tube station.^[2]
• 6 October - The British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton.

Publications

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• 1st edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
• Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden.
• G. K. Chesterton's short story collection The Innocence of Father Brown.
• Joseph Conrad's novel Under Western Eyes.

Births

• 19 February - Merle Oberon, actress (died 1979)
• 15 March - Ursula Vaughan Williams, author
• 27 March - Erich Heller, philosopher (died 1990)
• 3 April - Michael Woodruff, pioneering transplant surgeon (died 2001)
• 23 April - Ronald Neame, film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director
• 10 June - Terence Rattigan, playwright (died 1977)
• 15 June - W.V. Awdry, children's writer (died 1997)
• 9 July - Mervyn Peake, writer and illustrator (died 1968)
• 14 July - Terry-Thomas, actor (died 1990)
• 17 July - Ted Anderson, footballer (died 1979)
• 27 August - Kay Walsh, actress (died 2005)
• 19 September - William Golding, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
• 3 October - Michael Hordern, actor (died 1995)
• 10 October - Clare Hollingworth, journalist
• 12 November - Chad Varah, priest and humanitarian (died 2007)
• 11 December - Val Guest, film director (died 2006)
• 27 December - Anna Russell, comedian and singer (died 2006)

Deaths

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

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