When Phyllis Hurley was born on 27 August 1920, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Henry A. Hurley, was 38 and her mother, Lucy Selman, was 37. She died on 25 June 1994, at the age of 73.
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British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Hurley (Somerset, Warwickshire, Berkshire). The Warwickshire and Berkshire placenames derive from Old English hyrne ‘angle, corner’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Somerset placename, for a minor place near Crowcombe, may have the same origin but this cannot be certain due to a lack of medieval forms.
Irish (Munster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUrthuile ‘descendant of Urthuile’, a personal name possibly meaning ‘great flood’.
Irish: variant of Herlihy .
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