1932 in the United Kingdom

none June 2022 January 2013 1932 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1932 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1932 in British radio 1932 in British television 1932 in British music Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (Coalition) Events 1 January The English Folk Dance and Song Society holds its first festival under this name following merger of the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society. The King gives the title of Princess Royal to his only daughter, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, a year after the death of the previous holder. 8 January — the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees. 24 January — inmates at Dartmoor Prison mutiny.Fitzgerald Michael 1977 Prisoners in Revolt Harmondsworth Penguin 0-14-021922-6 123–6 26 January — British submarine M2 1918 6 sinks off the Dorset coast with all sixty hands. 1-29 February — with an average precipitation of 9.5 mm inch 2 or, this period constitutes the driest calendar month over the United Kingdom as a whole since records began in 1836.UK rainfall ranked, 1836 to 2015. 4—15 February — Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, but do not win any medals. thumb|150px|right|Broadcasting House 1 March — Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 375–376 0-7126-5616-2 15 March — first BBC radio broadcast from the new Broadcasting House in London; all programmes transfer from 15 May. 6 April – Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance. 13 April — mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a wilful trespass by ramblers at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, to protest against lack of free public access to open country.https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1932/apr/25/1 Mass trespass on Kinder Scout The Guardian Manchester 25 April 1932 2010-06-30 14 April – John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, focus a proton beam on lithium and split its nucleus ("splitting the atom").Cockcroft John Walton Ernest April 1932 Disintegration of Lithium by Swift Protons https://www.nature.com/articles/129649a0 Nature 129 649 649 10.1038/129649a0 1932Natur.129..649C 23 April — new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon;Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 designed by Elisabeth Scott, it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.Marian Pringle The Theatres of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1875–1992: an architectural history Stratford-upon-Avon Society 1994 29 0-9514178-1-9 1 May — protestors clash with police in Hyde Park, London, during a May day protest against Japan's attitude towards China when they try to march on the Japanese Embassy. 10 May — James Chadwick, working at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge, reports the existence of the neutron.The Existence of the Neutron https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1932.0112 J. Chadwick Proceedings of the Royal Society A136 830 1932-06-01 692–708 10.1098/rspa.1932.0112 free 1932RSPSA.136..692C 2025-06-15 26 May — the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.Chapman Matthew The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson London Wildy, Simmons & Hill 2010 978-0-85490-049-7 25 June – India plays its first Test cricket match with England at Lord's. 2 July — the exiled former king of Portugal, Manuel II, dies at Fulwell in Middlesex; his body is later returned to Portugal for burial. 4 July — George Carwardine patents the Anglepoise lamp. 12 July — Hedley Verity of Yorkshire establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm. 19 July — King George V opens the replacement Lambeth Bridge across the Thames in London. 30 July—14 August — Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze. 1 August — Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory.http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_theme%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3dtheme_record_id=sl%2dsl%2dmars&s=MUhpLhrsY1I Mars — the chocolate planet Slough History Online 2010-02-08 22 August — first experimental television broadcast by the BBC. 20 September — Methodist Union: the Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church. 26 September — first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.Hannington Wal Unemployed Struggles, 1919–1936: My Life and Struggles Amongst the Unemployed 237 Barnes & Noble Books 1973 0-85409-837-2 October Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists. Anglo-Irish Trade War begins. 3 October — The Times newspaper first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.50 The Times: Past, Present, Future 1985 7 October — Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 10 October — a mine cage accident at Bickershaw Colliery in the Lancashire Coalfield drowns 19.Lift Crashes Australian Cable Service 1932-10-15 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149914269 13 October — Britain grants independence to the kingdom of Iraq, ending the British mandate there in exchange for a restrictive long-term military alliance. 25 October – George Lansbury becomes the leader of the opposition Labour Party.Shepherd John George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour Oxford University Press 2002 0-19-820164-8 282 27 October — arrival of the Hunger March in London leads to several violent clashes with police.Cronin James E. Labour and Society in Britain, 1918–1979 96 London Batsford Academic & Educational 1984 0-7134-4395-2 14 November — book tokens go on sale in the UK. 30 November — the BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar. 2 December — English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: opening of the “bodyline” series. 5 December — the comic strip character Jane first appears in the Daily Mirror. 10 December John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932. Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932. 19 December — the BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station.Norman Tomalin Daventry Calling the World Whitby Caedmon 1998 0-905355-46-6 http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf 2015-05-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20131224203242/http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf 24 December 2013 dead 25 December — King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message on the BBC Empire Service from Sandringham House; the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling. Undated Opening of the Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, Middlesex, a noted example of Art Deco architecture, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners for The Hoover Company.Hoover Factory, Perivale http://www.74simon.co.uk/hooverbuilding.html 74SIMON.Co.UK 2010-07-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134216/http://www.74simon.co.uk/hooverbuilding.html 16 July 2011 usurped Production of Fordson tractors in the U.K. begins at Dagenham in Essex. Production of Weetabix breakfast cereal in the U.K. begins at Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire. Publications Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House. Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first in A Scots Quair trilogy. Stella Gibbons' parodic novel Cold Comfort Farm. J. B. S. Haldane's study The Causes of Evolution, unifying Mendelian genetics and evolutionary science. Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World. Captain W. E. Johns' first Biggles aviation stories, collected as The Camels are Coming. F. R. Leavis' study New Bearings in English Poetry. Q. D. Leavis' study Fiction and the Reading Public. John Cowper Powys' Wessex novel A Glastonbury Romance. Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel Have His Carcase. Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel Black Mischief. First issue of the journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review edited by F. R. Leavis (published in May). First issue of the magazine Woman's Own. Births thumb|110px|Elizabeth Taylor thumb|110px|Nigel Lawson thumb|110px|Phyllida Law thumb|110px|Arnold Wesker thumb|110px|V. S. Naipaul 110px|thumb|W. Morgan Sheppard 110px|thumb|Richard Dawson 2 January – Peter Redgrove, poet (died 2003) 4 January – Thelma Holt, actress and producer 12 January – Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter (died 2020) 14 January – Timothy Sprigge, philosopher (died 2007) 15 January – Louis George Alexander, teacher and author (died 2002) 19 January – Russ Hamilton, singer (died 2008) 23 January – George Allen, footballer (died 2016) 29 January – Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958) 30 January – Lady Mary Colman, socialite and philanthropist (died 2021) 1 February – John Nott, Conservative politician (died 2024) 3 February – Molly Parkin, journalist, novelist and painter (died 2026) 8 February Cliff Allison, racing driver (died 2005) Elspeth Howe, public servant (died 2022)Baroness Elspeth Howe dies aged 90 Jean Saunders, romantic novelist (died 2011)Weston Mercury Article http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/a_special_gift_of_local_author_s_books_1_1120699 8 August 2019 13 September 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160913051456/http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/a_special_gift_of_local_author_s_books_1_1120699 dead 11 February – Dennis Skinner, politician 12 February – Richard Rougier, judge (died 2007) 13 February David Neal, actor (died 2000) Barbara Shelley, actress (died 2021) 14 February Peter Ball, bishop and sex offender (died 2019) Jocelyn Stevens, publisher, journalist and charity executive (died 2014) 15 February – Adrian Swire, English businessman (died 2018) 22 February – Roger Squires, crossword compiler (died 2023) 25 February – Tony Brooks, racing driver (died 2022) 27 February – Elizabeth Taylor, film actress (died 2011 in the United States) 28 February – Brian Moore, football commentator (died 2001) 11 March – Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023) 21 March – Tom Watson, actor (died 2001) 25 March – Martin Brandon-Bravo, politician (died 2018) 27 March – Patrick Newell, actor (died 1988) 1 April – Avril Elgar, actress (died 2021)Coveney Michael Michael Coveney Avril Elgar obituary https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/sep/29/avril-elgar-obituary The Guardian 29 September 2021 9 April – Jack Smethurst, actor (died 2022) 10 April – Adrian Henri, Liverpool poet (died 2000) 14 April – Bob Grant, actor, comedian and writer (died 2003) 15 April – John T. Lewis, Welsh physicist (died 2004) 21 April – Angela Mortimer, tennis player (died 2025) 25 April David Frederick Case, audiobook narrator (died 2005) William Roache, actor (Coronation Street) 26 April – Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000 in Canada) 4 May – Ivor Wood, television animator (died 2004) 6 May – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, peer and landowner (died 2020) 7 May – Jenny Joseph, poet (died 2018) 9 May Gavin Lyall, novelist (died 2003) Geraldine McEwan, actress (died 2015) 12 May – Derek Malcolm, historian and film critic (died 2023) 19 May – Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966) 20 May – Kevin Ruane, journalist (died 2018) 24 May – Arnold Wesker, dramatist (died 2016) 25 May – Norman Drew, Northern Irish golfer (died 2023) 27 May – Jeffrey Bernard, journalist (died 1997) 29 May – Walker H. Land, academic bioengineering researcherhttp://www2.binghamton.edu/watson/programs/academic-departments/bioengineering/people/land.html bioengineering people 21 July 2022 30 May 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100530124013/http://www2.binghamton.edu/watson/programs/academic-departments/bioengineering/people/land.html dead 30 May Ray Cooney, farceur Ivor Richard, Welsh Labour politician (died 2018) 8 June – Ray Illingworth, cricketer (died 2021) 9 June – Denise Robertson, broadcaster and writer (died 2016) 18 June – Geoffrey Hill, poet (died 2016) 21 June – Bernard Ingham, journalist and government press secretary (died 2023) 22 June Prunella Scales, actress (died 2025) John Wakeham, businessman and Conservative Party politician 25 June Peter Blake, pop artist Charles Morrison, politician (died 2005) Tim Parnell, racing driver (died 2017)http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Tim_Parnell The World Championship drivers – Where are they now? 2007-07-29 Jenkins Richard OldRacingCars.com 26 June – John Wall, inventor (died 2018) 27 June Alan Warren, Anglican priest and author (died 2020) Hugh Wood, composer (died 2021) 30 June – Ingrid Allen, neuroscientist (died 2020) 4 July – Matt Crowe, Scottish football (soccer) player (died 2017) 6 July – Phyllida Law, actress 8 July Roy Proverbs, football (soccer) player (died 2017) Brian Walden, politician and political interviewer (died 2019) 10 July – George Black, Royal Air Force officer 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016) 17 July – Colin Webster, Welsh footballer (died 2001) 21 July – Vilma Hollingbery, actress (died 2021) 23 July Hugh Davies, Welsh cricketer (died 2017) Tony Dean, racing driver (died 2008) 26 July – Neil McCarthy, actor (died 1985)https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=ZGiXAXBvRsCKAU5sEdmd4g&scan=1 Neil McCarthy birth GRO index entry 18 August 2019 FreeBMD ONS 28 July – Russell Johnston, politician (died 2008) 6 August Michael Deeley, film producer Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker (died 2017) 9 August – Reginald Bosanquet, television news presenter (died 1984) 11 August – Eric Varley, politician (died 2008) 17 August – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-born writer (died 2018) 20 August – Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004) 23 August – Christopher Parsons, film-maker (died 2002) 24 August Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster (died 2017) W. Morgan Sheppard, actor (died 2019) 27 August – Lady Antonia Fraser, writer 31 August – Roy Castle, entertainer (died 1994) 1 September – Raymond Durgnat, film critic (died 2002) 4 September Edward de Souza, actor Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003) 7 September – Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000) 9 September – Alice Thomas Ellis, writer (died 2005) 11 September Peter Anderson, footballer (died 2009) Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006) 16 September – Micky Stewart, cricketer 21 September – Shirley Conran, author and journalist (died 2024) 22 September Michael Barnes, politician (died 2018) Ian Kennedy, comics artist (died 2022) 25 September Terry Medwin, footballer (died 2024) Brian Murphy, comedy actor (died 2025) 27 September – Michael Colvin, Conservative politician (died 2000) 28 September – Jeremy Isaacs, television executive and opera manager 4 October – Edward Judd, actor (died 2009) 5 October – Michael John Rogers, ornithologist (died 2006) 8 October – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player (died 2024) 9 October – Colin Clark, film-maker (died 2002) 10 October – Harry Smith, footballer (died 2016) 15 October – Vince Karalius, English rugby league footballer and coach (died 2008) 17 October – David Willey, journalist (died 2026) 24 October – Adrian Mitchell, poet and novelist (died 2008) 6 November – Ron Saunders, footballer and manager (died 2019) 4 November – Joyce Blair, actress (died 2006) 11 November – John Zamet, periodontist (died 2007) 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress and songwriter 18 November – Trevor Baxter, actor and playwright (died 2017) 20 November – Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012) 21 November – Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (died 2010) 30 November – Arthur Hopcraft, scriptwriter (died 2004) 5 December – Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, politician 15 December – John Meurig Thomas, scientist (died 2020) 16 December – Quentin Blake, cartoonist and illustrator 18 December – Marian Wenzel, art historian (died 2002) 19 December Angela Flowers, gallerist (died 2023) Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician (died 2001) 24 December – Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000) 26 December – Ken Howard, painter (died 2022) 28 December – Roy Hattersley, Labour politician (died 2026) Deaths 8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887) 13 January – Ernest Mangnall, football manager (born 1866) 21 January – Lytton Strachey, writer and biographer (born 1880) 24 January – Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1842) 10 February – Edgar Wallace, novelist and screenwriter (born 1875) 4 March – Fawcet Wray, admiral (born 1873) 11 March – Dora Carrington, painter (born 1893) 16 March – Harold Monro, poet and bookshop proprietor (born 1879) 22 April – Edward Taylor Scott, newspaper editor/proprietor (drowned in yachting accident) (born 1883) 26 April – William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868) 13 June – Alexander Bethell, admiral (born 1855) 2 July – Manuel II of Portugal, exiled monarch (born 1889) 6 July – Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859) 16 July – Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, general (born 1857) 22 July – J. Meade Falkner, novelist and poet (born 1858) 23 July – Tenby Davies, Welsh sprinter (born 1884) 19 August – E. S. Prior, Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (born 1852) 16 September – Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857) 1 October – W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (born 1854) 30 October – Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, field marshal (born 1845) 12 November – Sir Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer (born 1854) 13 November – Catherine Isabella Dodd, education writer and novelist (born 1860) 8 December – Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer, writer and artist (born 1843) See also List of British films of 1932 References 1932 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1932 by country Category:1930s in the United Kingdom Category:1932 in Europe