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PART II.

CHRONICLE OF EVENTS

IN 1926.

JANUARY.

1. The New Year's Honours included two Viscounties (Lord D'Abernon and Lord Dunedin), two Baronies (Lord Oranmore and Browne [Baron Mereworth, of Mereworth Castle, in the County of Kent], and Sir Ernest Pollock [Baron Hanworth, of Hanworth, Middlesex], seven Baronetcies, and fifty-five Knights.

According to the Ministry of Health, 1,439,810 persons were in receipt of Poor Law Relief, being an increase of 234,543 on the number registered on January 1, 1925.

-Extensive floods and damage caused by storm winds reported from all parts of the country (see ANNUAL REGISTER, Chronology, 1925, under December 30 and 31).

The London Fire Brigade celebrated the 60th anniversary of its foundation.

2. The Italian Cabinet approved a Bill for the creation of an Italian Academy (Accademia d'Italia).

3. A chancel window was dedicated in the parish church of Dean Prior, in Devon, to the memory of Robert Herrick, who lived for thirty years as Vicar in the village.

Great floods reported from all parts of Western Europe; half of Holland under water; the Thames in flood; the Seine rising.

11. The Bench and Bar in Northern Ireland decided to form an Inn of Court for Ulster.

12. An anonymous donor gave 1,000l. as a contribution towards the debt incurred by the Government of India during the Great War.

13. The Times announced that an anonymous gift of 10,000l. had been made to the appeal fund of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.

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14. Heavy snowstorm in London; skating was possible in many parts of the country.

18. The Rev. Bernard Heywood, Vicar of Leeds, appointed Bishop of Southwell.

21. The Sennar Dam inaugurated by Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner in Egypt.

Shrewsbury Castle has been restored and presented to the town of Shrewsbury as a Council Chamber.

27. The Times announced that the Old King's Head Inn at Aylesbury, and the Old Manor House, Princes Risborough, had been, given to the National Trust, by the wish of the late Mr. N. Charles Rothschild.

30. At the by-elections in East Renfrewshire and Dumbartonshire respectively, the seats were retained by the Conservatives, but in each. case by a reduced majority.

FEBRUARY.

1. The number of unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain was 1,175,000, being 25,827 less than on January 25.

4. The Very Reverend T. G. G. Collins, Dean of Belfast, was elected Bishop of Meath.

6. Viscount Novar appointed a Knight of the Thistle.

8. The 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Guardian celebrated by a luncheon.

11. Mr. G. C. Turner appointed Master of Marlborough College.

12. The Times announced that Lord Kenyon had presented Birch's shop front in Cornhill to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The British Empire Film Institute established, to encourage films which interpret the ideals of the British Commonwealth.

14. The mansion at Oulton Park, Tarporley, Cheshire, belonging to Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, was totally destroyed by fire, and five lives were lost.

15. At a sale at the Anderson Galleries in New York, the famous Melk copy of the Gutenberg Bible fetched 106,000 dollars. The price is said to be the highest ever paid for any printed book.

16. Benacre Hall, Wrentham, Suffolk, was destroyed by fire.

17. At the Darlington by-election, Mr. A. Shepherd, the Labour candidate, won the seat from the Conservative Party by a majority of 329.

23. The National Trust announced that it had secured 1,700 acres of Ashridge Park for the nation.

24. Mr. Walter W. Russell, A.R.A., painter, was elected a Royal Academician.

25. Drumspillan House, Pinwherry, Ayrshire, was burnt down, and the owner, Mr. Richard Whyte, and his son James, aged nine, lost their lives.

27. The Daily Mail announced that Lord Rothermere had purchased for 155,000l. the site of the Royal Bethlem Hospital for use as a playground and park for Southwark, as a permanent memorial to his mother, the late Mrs. Harmsworth.

MARCH.

4. The Times announced that under the will of Miss Mary Gray Allen, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, is to receive a benefaction of 36,000l.

6. The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon burnt down.

7. A test of transatlantic radio-telephony was successfully carried out; representatives of the British Press in London conversed with representatives of the Press in New York.

8. Lupton House, Churston Ferrers, Devon, the seat of Lord Churston, was destroyed by fire.

10. The Times announced that Mr. Samuel A. Courtauld had given 30,000l. to the Middlesex Hospital for the erection of "The Courtauld Institute of Bio-Chemistry."

13. Mr. Alan Cobham, on completing his flight of 16,000 miles from London to Cape Town and back, landed at Croydon, and was later received by King George at Buckingham Palace.

14. A correspondent of The Times from Ilfracombe wrote to say that he had seen a couple of martins."

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16. At the by-election for the combined English Universities, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Conservative, was elected, by a majority of 343, one of the members of this constituency, in the room of Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Liberal.

20. A Royal Charter was granted to University College, Reading, raising that institution to the dignity of the University of Reading.

21. Royal Charters were granted to Lady Margaret Hall and St. Hilda's College, both in Oxford.

24. It was reported that seven Trade Unions with a membership of some 1,600,000 had affiliated to the new Industrial Alliance,

26. Portsmouth created a City.

- At the Bothwell by-election the Labour Party retained the seat by an increased majority.

27. The 78th University boat race was won by Cambridge by five lengths.

29. The new Inland Cash on Delivery (C.O.D.) parcel service came into operation.

30. Salford created a City.

31. It was reported from the Records Department of the Rothamsted Experimental Station that less rain fell during the month of March than in any previous March since 1853.

APRIL.

2. A correspondent of The Times from Haywards Heath informed that journal that he had seen a swallow.

5. At the 18th London Van Horse Parade there were 642 entries.

6. Two-seater taxi-cabs licensed in London.

10. The New Zealand Government purchased the premises of the British Medical Association in the Strand for its headquarters.

12. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Simon offered to the City of Manchester Wythenshawe Hall and some 250 acres of park surrounding it, situated about 3 miles from Altrincham, to be kept for ever as an open space."

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13. Mr. Malcolm Osborne, A.R.A., elected a Royal Academician Engraver, and Mr. George Harcourt, A.R.A., painter, elected a Royal Academician.

18. Summer time commenced at 2 A.M. (See under October 3.)

21. On the completion of his term of office as Viceroy of India, the Earl of Reading had the dignity of a Marquessate conferred upon him.

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The Duchess of York gave birth to a daughter (Elizabeth Alexandra

22. Mr. Walter Tapper, architect, Mr. S. J. Lamorna Birch, painter, and Mr. Charles S. Jagger, elected Associates of the Royal Academy.

24. At the Wembley Stadium, Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City in the Final Tie of the Football Association Challenge Cup.

28. King George approved a badge which may be worn by gentlemen on whom the degree of Knight Bachelor has been conferred.

29. The Medical School of St. Thomas's Hospital received a gift of 15,000l. from the Rockefeller Foundation for building new laboratories.

29. At the East Ham by-election Miss Susan Lawrence won the seat for the Labour Party from the Conservatives by a majority of 1,627.

30. The month was wet and cold. The rainfall was 2.963 inches, nearly an inch over the average for 73 years; the total amount of sunshine recorded at the Rothamsted Experimental Station was 108-2 hours, being 53.3 hours below the average.

MAY.

1. It was estimated that a crowd of some 25,000 people took part in the May Day Demonstration in Hyde Park.

4-12. The first General Strike in the history of this country.

20. Hyde Park, which had been closed during the period of the strike, was opened to the public.

21. Gunnersbury Park, Acton, 200 acres in extent, which for more than 100 years had been in the possession of the Rothschild family, was opened to the public.

23. Wesley's Day celebrated to mark the centenary of the "Evangelical Conversion" of the Rev. John Wesley and of the Rev. Charles Wesley.

26. In appreciation of the assistance rendered during the General Strike by 270 students of the University of Edinburgh, Mr. Thomas Cowan, a shipowner, presented 10,000l. to the University for its general purposes.

-The Town Hall of Cracow, formerly the palace of the Wielcpolski, a splendid specimen of eighteenth century architecture, was completely destroyed by fire.

28. At the North Hammersmith by-election the Labour candidate captured the seat from the Conservatives with an increased majority.

29. The Rev. Alan England Brooke, Ely Professor of Divinity, was elected Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

31. The new building of the College of Nursing in Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, was opened by Queen Mary.

The Prince of Wales opened the new Lecture Hall of the British Institute of International Affairs, and announced the wish of King George V. that henceforth the Institute should be known as the Royal Institute.

JUNE.

2. Lord Woolavington's Coronach, ridden by J. Childs, won the Derby at Epsom by five lengths. This was the third rainy Derby in succession, the rain being worse than in the two previous years.

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