Headstone for centenarian Lilian Caroll Swan, aged 102, in St John the Baptist churchyard.Located near the perimeter wall, to the right of the path as you enter the churchyard.
Born in 1911 -
" Monarch - George V
Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith (Liberal)
Events of 1911 -
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 holed up in a building in the East End.
March–April - Eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank in Scotland go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation. Four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed.
2 April - The 1911 census is taken. One out of every seven employed persons is a domestic servant. Suffragette Emily Davison hides in a cupboard in the crypt of the Palace of Westminster so that she can legitimately be recorded as resident on census night at the House of Commons.
4 April - Work begins on construction of Castle Drogo, Devon, to the design of Edwin Lutyens.
May–September - Hottest British summer on record.
12 May - Festival of Empire opens at The Crystal Palace, London, to celebrate the Coronation.
31 May - Launching of the ocean liner RMS Titanic in Belfast.[5] Her sister RMS Olympic sails for Liverpool the same day to take up transatlantic service.
14 June - Liverpool General Transport Strike begins.
22 June
Coronation of George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey, London.
Completion of the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, is marked by starting the clocks in its towers at the same moment as the Coronation.
July–September - Severe heat wave and associated drought.
13 July - The future Edward VIII is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Carnarvon Castle devised by David Lloyd George.
14 July - New buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, opened.
22 July–5 August - First Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race.
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.
13 August - The centre of Liverpool is rocked by violence when a meeting of striking transport workers is broken up by police and soldiers. A number of policemen and many strikers are seriously injured in what will become known as 'Bloody Sunday.'
15 August - two men are shot dead on Vauxhall Road Liverpool by mounted troops during continued unrest following Bloody Sunday.
17–20 August - National railway workers' strike.
18 August - The Parliament Act removes the House of Lords' power regarding budgets and restricts their power over other bills to a two-year suspensive veto.
19 August - Llanelli riots: During demonstrations in support of the national railway strike, two men are shot dead by soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment in Llanelli. Magistrates' homes are attacked and four more of the crowd are killed outright when explosive material stored on railway property ignites.
22 August - Official Secrets Act 1911 comes into effect.
9–26 September - World's first scheduled airmail post service is flown between Hendon, North London, and Windsor, Berkshire.
20 September - The liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off Southampton.
4 October - First electric escalators introduced, at Earl's Court tube station.
6 October - The British Seafarers' Union is formed in Southampton.
8 November - Newcastle upon Tyne: the first rugby league football Test of the 1911–12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain is played between Australasia and Great Britain.
21 November - Suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and choose prison terms.
24 November - An explosion starting in the basement of Bibby's Oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves thirty-nine dead and one hundred and one injured.
11 December - George V and Queen Mary are crowned as Emperor of India and Empress consort of India, respectively, at the Delhi Durbar in New Delhi.
16 December - National Insurance Act 1911 passed."
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Passed away 2013 -
Monarch - Elizabeth II
Prime Minister - David Cameron (Cons.–Lib.Dem.)
Events of November 2013 -
"November 8: Typhoon Haiyan.
November 5 – Mangalyaan (aka Mars Orbiter Mission) is launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota.
November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan ("Yolanda"), one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,241 dead.
November 12 – Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a series of portraits of Lucian Freud by the British painter Francis Bacon, sells for US$142.4 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
November 21 – Euromaidan pro-EU demonstrations begin in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych rejects an economic association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine in favor of closer ties to Russia.
November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief."
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