painter and sculptor Peter May, novelist and television dramatist Nuala O'Loan, Baroness O'Loan, lawyer 21 December – Nick Gilder, English-Canadian singer-songwriter Deaths 2 January – Edith New, suffragette (born 1877) 25 February – Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart, industrialist (born 1872) 6 March – Ivor Novello, actor, musician and composer (born 1893) 6 April – Robert Broom, paleontologist (born 1866) 14 April – Ernest Bevin, labour leader, politician and statesman (born 1881) 22 April – Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (born 1870) 24 April – Joseph Paton Maclay, 1st Baron Maclay, Glasgow shipowner and Minister of Shipping, 1916-1921 (born 1857) 2 May – Tufton Beamish, British admiral and politician (born 1874) 11 June – W. C. Sellar, humourist (born 1898) 3 July – Gwendoline Davies, philanthropist (born 1882) 21 August – Constant Lambert, composer (born 1905) 27 September – Robert Thomas, politician (born 1873) 29 September – Evan Roberts, preacher (born 1878) 11 December – Christopher Addison, anatomist and politician (born 1869) See also 1951 in British music 1951 in British television List of British films of 1951 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom