Emma was six weeks in the Horton Asylum. She and three others were buried in a pauper’s grave.
The year 1931 was marked by significant events in the UK
- the abandonment of the Ulster Canal,
- the opening of Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London,
- the resignation of Winston Churchill from Stanley Baldwin’s shadow cabinet.
- It also saw the formation of the New Party by Oswald Mosley
- the establishment of the National Trust for Scotland.
- The year was notable for the Westminster St George’s by-election, which ended the campaign by the press barons Lord Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere to oust Stanley Baldwin.