Events[]
Early[]
- ? - Mabel Tolkien moves her family, from King's Heath to a house in Edgbaston next door to the Birmingham Oratory and the Grammar School of St. Philip. To save money, Mabel removes the boys from King Edward's School and enrolls them in St. Philips.
April[]
- 9 - Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, Inkling, is born.
- 13 - Godfrey William Kenton, the voice of Aragorn II and Mablung in the 1955 radio series of The Lord of the Rings, is born.
June[]
- 11 - Illustrator Eric George Fraser is born.
September[]
- 26 - Clyde Samuel Kilby, literature professor, is born.