1891 in the United Kingdom

UK-related events during the year of 1891

1891 in the United Kingdom
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1891 English cricket season
Football: England | Scotland

Events from the year 1891 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

  • 14 February – in the FA Cup quarter final in English Association football, a goal is deliberately stopped by handball on the goal line. An indirect free kick is awarded, since the penalty kick, proposed the previous year by William McCrum, has not yet been implemented. This event probably changes public opinion on the penalty kick, seen previously as 'an Irishman's motion'.
  • 1–28 February – the driest month in the EWP series with an average of only 3.6 millimetres (0.14 in).[1]
  • 9–12 March – the Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.[2][3]
  • 17 March – the British steamship SS Utopia sinks in the inner harbour of Gibraltar after collision with the battleship HMS Anson, killing 564.[4]
  • 18 March – official opening of the London–Paris telephone link, opening to the public on 1 April.[5]
  • 5 April – census in the United Kingdom: 15.6 million people live in cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales and cities of 20,000 or more account for 54% of the total English population. The number of Welsh speakers in Wales is recorded for the first time and constitutes 54.4% of the population.
  • 1–9 June – royal baccarat scandal: the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, appears as a witness in a trial for slander in the case of an army officer accused of cheating in an illegal gambling game at which the Prince was present.[6]
  • 25 June – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.[5]
  • c. August – Deptford Power Station (designed by Sebastian Z. de Ferranti for the London Electric Supply Corporation) is fully commissioned, pioneering the use of high voltage (10 kV) alternating current, generating 800 kW for public supply.
  • 5 August – Elementary Education Act abolishes fees for primary schooling.[7]
  • 10 October – First street charity collection in the UK is held in Manchester in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[8]

Undated

Publications

Births

  • 9 February – Ronald Colman, English actor (died 1958)
  • 11 February – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (died 1965)
  • 23 February – Robert Barrington-Ward, English newspaper editor (died 1948)
  • 2 April – Jack Buchanan, Scottish actor and film director (died 1957)
  • 22 April – Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (died 1989)
  • 25 April – Ivor Brown, journalist and author (died 1974)
  • 7 May – Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (died 1988)
  • 17 May – Lady Alexandra Duff, later Duchess of Fife suo jure and HRH Princess Arthur of Connaught by marriage, member of the British royal family and nurse (died 1959)
  • 20 June – John A. Costello, third Taoiseach of Ireland, second to use that title (died 1976)
  • 30 June – Stanley Spencer, painter (died 1959)
  • 2 August – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
  • 6 August – William Slim, Field Marshal (died 1970)
  • 30 August – Henry Tandey, second most highly decorated British private soldier of World War I (died 1977)
  • 5 September – Edward Molyneux, English fashion designer (died 1974)
  • 16 September – Isabel Jeans, actress (died 1985)
  • 25 September – Godfrey Ince, civil servant (died 1960)
  • 8 October – Ellen Wilkinson, English socialist (died 1947)
  • 20 October – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
  • 17 November – William Coltman, most highly decorated British private soldier of World War I (died 1974)[12]
  • 13 December – Hubert Phillips, economist, journalist, bridge player and composer of puzzles (died 1964)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Hadley Center Ranked EWP.
  2. ^ Woodward, Antony; Penn, Robert (2007). The Wrong Kind of Snow. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-93787-7.
  3. ^ Carter, Clive (1971). The Blizzard of '91. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5137-0.
  4. ^ 562 passengers and crew from Utopia and two rescue sailors from HMS Immortalité. "The Dead of the Utopia" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 March 1891. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  5. ^ a b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  6. ^ Havers, Michael; Grayson, Edward; Shankland, Peter (1988). The Royal Baccarat Scandal. London: Souvenir Press. ISBN 978-0-285-62852-6.
  7. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 318–319. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  8. ^ Britton, Paul (10 October 2020). "A tragedy at sea and how charity bucket collecting was born in Manchester". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  9. ^ "Baptist History". Baptist Union of Great Britain. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  10. ^ Negev, Eilat; Koren, Yehuda (2011). The First Lady of Fleet Street: A Biography of Rachel Beer. London: JR Books. ISBN 978-1-906779-19-1. Mrs Beer called the shots, though she left the drudgery of the newspaper's day-to-day details in [editor Clement] Kinloch-Cooke's hands.
  11. ^ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
  12. ^ "Coltman, William Harold". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93495. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ "Joseph Bazalgette". History. UK: BBC. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
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