1891 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1891 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Events

Undated

Publications

Births

  • 25 January – Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, actress (died 1992)
  • 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)
  • 5 April – Arnold Jackson, Olympic middle-distance runner, British Army officer and lawyer (died 1972)
  • 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)[13]
  • 13 December – Hubert Phillips, economist, journalist, bridge player and composer of puzzles (died 1964)

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