1960 in the United Kingdom

none May 2020 January 2013 1960 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1960 British Grand Prix 1960 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1960 in British television 1960 in British music 1960 in British radio UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 Events from the year 1960 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth II Prime Minister – Harold Macmillan (Conservative) Events January – The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya: the Mau Mau Uprising is officially over. 1 January – East House mass shooting: 3 men are killed and 2 wounded in a mass shooting at a pub in Sheffield by a Somali national subsequently determined to be insane.2016-02-09 updated 10 February 2016 Flashback: The night three people were shot dead in gun attack on Sheffield pub https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/flashback-the-night-three-people-were-shot-dead-in-gun-attack-on-sheffield-pub-460729 live https://web.archive.org/web/20240621121907/https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/flashback-the-night-three-people-were-shot-dead-in-gun-attack-on-sheffield-pub-460729 2024-06-21 2025-01-01 The Star Sheffield, England A442856366 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway which opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date is operated by double-decker electric trams.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 10 January – Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Ghana. 28 January – The comic ballet La fille mal gardée, in a version newly choreographed by Frederick Ashton to a score adapted by John Lanchbery, is premiered by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House in London, rapidly becoming a classic of the repertoire. La Fille mal gardée (1960) Royal Opera House Collections On Line http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/production.aspx?production=1721 4 August 2010 27 July 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200727163202/http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/production.aspx?production=1721 dead 3 February – Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town where it attracts attention. (It was drafted by David Hunt.) At home, it leads to formation of the Conservative Monday Club.Messina Anthony Race and Party Competition in Britain 1989 Oxford University Press 18–28 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California but do not win any medals. 19 February – The Queen gives birth to her third child and second son, the first child born to a reigning British monarch since 1857. March Manchester City F.C. sign 20-year-old forward Denis Law for a national record fee of £55,000 from Huddersfield Town.Denis Law Bob Harris The King Bantam Press 2003 0-593-05140-8 The 18th century Royal Navy dockyard at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent is closed. A total of 2,500 jobs have gradually been shed at the site since its closure was first announced by the government in February 1958.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_2552000/2552135.stm BBC News 1958: Historic Sheerness docks to close 20 February 1958 30 September 2011 14 March – Jodrell Bank Observatory makes contact with the American Pioneer 5 over a record-breaking distance of 407,000 miles.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2566000/2566961.stm Radio telescope makes space history BBC On This Day 11 February 2008 14 March 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131919/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/14/newsid_2566000/2566961.stm 7 March 2008 live 20 March – Lonnie Donegan's single "My Old Man's a Dustman" reaches No. 1 in the UK charts.Nigel Gross etal Collins Gem 1960s HarperCollins London 1999 0-00-472310-4 26 March – The Grand National is televised for the first time. The winner is Merryman II.http://www.aintree.co.uk/pages/broadcasting-of-the-grand-national/ Broadcasting of the Grand National Aintree.co.uk 11 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110320044733/http://www.aintree.co.uk/pages/broadcasting-of-the-grand-national/ 20 March 2011 dead 28 March – Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow. 19 firemen are killed in the UK's worst peacetime fire services disaster.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/2000.htm 25 February 2014 1 April – Bill Griggs of Northampton first markets the Dr. Martens 'AirWair' style 1460 boots.Challoner, Jack 1001 Inventions That Changed the World London Cassell 2009 978-1-84403-611-0 676–7 8 April – The seven-week-old son of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh is christened Andrew Albert Christian Edward; he later becomes Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.Announcement of the christening of Lady Louise Windsor http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2004/AnnouncementofthechristeningofLadyLouiseWindsor.aspx 8 April 2004 27 January 2012 The official website of The British Monarchy The Royal Household dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001852/http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2004/AnnouncementofthechristeningofLadyLouiseWindsor.aspx 31 December 2013 13 April – The cancellation of the Blue Streak missile as a military project.Alistair Horne Alistair Horne Macmillan 1957–1986 1989 London Macmillan 0333496213 275–7 16 April – The Times of London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News" and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today". 17 April – American rock and roll singer Eddie Cochran, 21, is killed in a car crash in Wiltshire. Gene Vincent survives the accident. 18 April – 60,000 protestors stage a demonstration in London against nuclear weapons.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/18/newsid_2909000/2909881.stm Thousands protest against H-bomb BBC On This Day 11 February 2008 18 April 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131753/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/18/newsid_2909000/2909881.stm 7 March 2008 live 27 April – The first production of Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker takes place at the Arts Theatre in London.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 30 April – Yorkshire County Cricket Club opens its first season since 1883 under a professional captain, Vic Wilson, who leads the club to the County Championship.http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/433121.html Vic Wilson Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2009 John Wisden & Co 21 December 2009 3 May – Burnley F.C. win the Football League First Division title with a 2–1 win over Manchester City at Maine Road.Burnley Wins English Soccer The Age Melbourne 4 May 1960 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GmsRAAAAIBAJ&pg=3304,408720&dq=football+burnley&hl=en 27 January 2012 Burnley's title win means that Wolverhampton Wanderers, the FA Cup finalists, have lost out on the chance of becoming the first team this century to win the double of the league title and FA Cup.5 Dec 2023 1960 FA Cup Final: Wolves Comfortably Beat Blackburn to Claim the Trophy http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1960.htm live https://web.archive.org/web/20120419221343/http://www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk/1960.htm 19 April 2012 4 December 2010 FA Cup Finals: Results, Analysis & More / Results, History, Stats / The history of the fa cup 6 May – Princess Margaret marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey in the first televised Royal marriage ceremony.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_3993000/3993317.stm Margaret weds Armstrong-Jones BBC On This Day 11 February 2008 6 May 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131914/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_3993000/3993317.stm 7 March 2008 live 7 May – Wolverhampton Wanderers are the FA Cup winners for the fourth time, beating Blackburn Rovers 3–0 at Wembley Stadium. 18 June – Jaguar Cars completes its purchase of the Daimler Company from BSA. Daimler Cars will later become rebadged Jaguars.1960s Nigel Gross etal HarperCollins Glasgow Collins Gem 1999 0-00-472310-4 22 June – A fire in a Liverpool department store kills eleven.Henderson's department store fire, Liverpool Fire Brigades Union https://www.fbu.org.uk/history/hendersons-department-store-fire-liverpool 2021-01-14 24 June – Avro 748 makes its first flight from Woodford. 26 June – British Somaliland gains independence from the United Kingdom. Five days later, it unites with the former Italian Somaliland to create the modern Somali Republic.Somalia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.. Retrieved 11 February 2008. 28 June – 38 miners are killed in an explosion at Six Bells Colliery in Monmouthshire.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/28/newsid_2520000/2520665.stm Welsh pit blast kills 37 miners BBC On This Day 11 February 2008 28 June 1960 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131924/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/28/newsid_2520000/2520665.stm 7 March 2008 live 30 June The musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart has its West End premiere. The English Electric Lightning enters service as the Royal Air Force's first operational supersonic fighter aircraft with No. 74 Squadron at RAF Coltishall. July – The Shadows' instrumental "Apache" is released. 21 July – Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth III, having made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days, winning the first Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race. 27 July – In a Cabinet reshuffle, Selwyn Lloyd is appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Home becomes Foreign Secretary.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 0-7126-5616-2 30 July – "Battle of Beaulieu": At a jazz festival at Beaulieu, Hampshire, fans of trad jazz come to blows with progressives.George McKay 2005 Circular Breathing: the Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu) Durham, NC Duke University Press 0-8223-3560-3 7 August – The Bluebell Railway in Sussex begins regular operations as the first standard gauge steam-operated passenger heritage railway in the world.Cole T. C. Bluebell Railway – Steaming On! 1970 Bluebell Railway Sheffield Park 16 August – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.Cyprus. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 11 February 2008. The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia remain as British Overseas Territories. 17 August – The Beatles, a five-strong male band from Liverpool, perform their first concert under this name in Hamburg, West Germany.Tim Hill The Beatles 2007 13 22 August – First performance of satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, in Edinburgh. 25 August–11 September – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Rome and win 2 gold, 6 silver and 12 bronze medals. September Formal conclusion of agreement for the supply from the United States of Skybolt nuclear missiles (later abandoned) to equip Vulcan bombers in exchange for permitting establishment of a U.S. Navy base on Holy Loch in Scotland for Polaris-equipped nuclear ballistic missile submarines. First Ten Tors expedition on Dartmoor. 10 September – ITV broadcasts the first live Football League match to be shown on television and the last for 23 years. 15 September – First traffic wardens deployed in London. 30 September–4 December – Severe flooding occurs in the valley of the River Exe, surrounding areas of Devon, and elsewhere in southern England, following heavy rainfall.Brierley John June 1964 Flooding in the Exe Valley, 1960 https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/iicep.1964.10110 Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 28 2 151–170 10.1680/iicep.1964.10110 1753-7789 6753 subscription 1 October – Nigeria gains its independence from the United Kingdom.Nigeria. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency.. Retrieved 11 February 2008. 7 October – The second notable flood occurs in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. The town enters the UK Weather Records with the highest 180-min total rainfall at 178 mm. As of October 2020, this record remains. 8 October Closure of the original Sheffield Tramway, leaving Blackpool as the only place in England with electric trams.https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9075000/9075086.stm Fiftieth anniversary of the end of trams in Sheffield Tom Ingall BBC 8 October 2010 16 January 2011 In the final of the Rugby League World Cup, staged in the UK, Great Britain beats Australia 10–3. 17 October – The News Chronicle ceases publication,Liberal Democrat News 15 October 2010.February 2025 being absorbed into the Daily Mail. 21 October (Trafalgar Day) – The Queen launches Britain's first nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, at Barrow-in-Furness. thumb|Damage to the Severn Railway Bridge 25 October – Barges collide with one of the columns of the Severn Railway Bridge in heavy fog, causing two spans of the twenty-two span steel and cast iron bridge to collapse. It is never repaired. 27 October – The film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is released, the first of the British social-realist wave. 30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the UK at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. 1 November – Black plastic bin bags (manufactured by ICI) are first introduced for waste collection, in Hitchin. 2 November – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. 10 November – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication since being banned since 1928.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/10/newsid_2965000/2965194.stm Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out BBC On This Day 11 February 2008 10 November 1960 2 December The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, talks with Pope John XXIII in the Vatican, the first ever meeting between the leader of the Anglican Church and the Pope. The marriage of theatrical couple Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier ends. 9 December – The first episode of the soap opera Coronation Street, made by Granada Television in Manchester, is aired on ITV. It will still be running past its 10,000th episode in its 60th anniversary year. Characters introduced in the first episode include Ken Barlow (William Roache), Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and Annie Walker (Doris Speed). 10 December – Sir Peter Brian Medawar and Australian Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance".http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1960/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1960 11 February 2008 31 December The last day on which the farthing, a coin first minted in England in the 13th century, is legal tender. The last man is called up for National Service, as Conscription ends. Undated – Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture. Publications Jean and Gareth Adamson's first Topsy and Tim children's book. Kingsley Amis's novel Take a Girl Like You. Lynne Reid Banks' novel The L-Shaped Room. Stan Barstow's novel A Kind of Loving. Lawrence Durrell's novel Clea, last of The Alexandria Quartet. Ian Fleming's James Bond short story collection For Your Eyes Only. Alan Garner's children's novel The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. Audrey Harvey's March Fabian Society pamphlet Casualties of the Welfare State. David Lodge's first novel The Picturegoers. Muriel Spark's novel The Ballad of Peckham Rye. David Storey's first novel This Sporting Life. Raymond Williams' novel Border Country. John Wyndham's novel Trouble with Lichen. Births January – February 1 January – Danny Wilson, footballer and manager 4 January – Jane Halton, English-Australian public servant 6 January – Nigella Lawson, British chef and writer 10 January – John Mann, English lawyer and politician 13 January – Matthew Bourne, English choreographer 18 January – Mark Rylance, English actor and theatre director 23 January Paul Blagg, English racewalker Paul Mason, English journalist 29 January – Sean Kerly, British field hockey player 31 January – George Benjamin, composer and conductor 4 February – Siobhan Dowd, British writer and activist (died 2007) 6 February Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter Harry Thompson, British comedy writer (died 2005) 10 February – Robert Addie, actor (died 2003) 19 February Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, third child of Elizabeth II Helen Fielding, English novelist 20 February – Siobhain McDonagh, British Labour politician and MP for Mitcham and Morden 21 February – Jane Tomlinson, athlete and cancer activist (died 2007) 22 February – Paul Abbott, television screenwriter and producer March – April 1 March – Benedict Allen, explorer 9 March – Louise Miller, high jumper 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, Scottish broadcast journalist 16 March Jenny Eclair, born Jenny Clare Hargreaves, comedian John Hemming, British Liberal Democrat politician and businessmanJohn Hemming 17 March – Patrick Vallance, scientist 23 March – Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician 24 March – Grayson Perry, visual artist 29 March – Marina Sirtis, actress 2 April – Linford Christie, Jamaican-born sprinter 4 April Jonathan Agnew, cricket broadcaster and player Jane Eaglen, soprano 7 April – Sandy Powell. costume designer 11 April – Jeremy Clarkson, motoring journalist and television show host 13 April – Lyn Carol Brown, Labour politician and MP for West Ham 22 April – Gary Rhodes, restaurateur and celebrity chef (died 2019) 26 April – Roger Taylor, new wave drummer (Duran Duran) 28 April – Ian Rankin, Scottish crime novelist 29 April – Phil King, rock bassist 30 April Colonel Tim Collins, Northern Irish-born British Commander in Iraq Geoffrey Cox, Conservative politician, Attorney General for England and Wales May – June 2 May – Stephen Daldry, director 6 May – Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress and producer 8 May – Terry Christian, broadcaster 17 May – Simon Fuller, film and TV producer 24 May Guy Fletcher, rock keyboardist (Dire Straits) Kristin Scott Thomas, film actress 28 May – Mary Portas, retail expert and broadcaster June – Angela Harding, printmaker and illustrator 2 June Tony Hadley, pop singer Shaun Wallace, television personality and barrister 4 June Suzy Aitchison, English actress Bradley Walsh, English comedian and actor 5 June Claire Fox, writer and politician Julie Kirkbride, Conservative politician and MP for Bromsgrove 8 June – Mick Hucknall, pop/soul singer-songwriter (Simply Red) 10 June – Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer 20 June – John Taylor, new wave bass guitarist (Duran Duran) 24 June – Elish Angiolini, senior Scottish law officer and academic administrator 27 June David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, British peer and filmmaker Jeremy Swift, English television actor 28 June – Richard Rycroft, actor and comedian 30 June – Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland July – August 3 July – Vince Clarke, English songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure) 4 July – Mark Steel, comedian 11 July – Caroline Quentin, English television comedy actress 13 July – Ian Hislop, British editor and broadcaster 16 July – Jacqueline Gold, English businesswoman (died 2023) 18 July – Simon Heffer, English journalist 22 July – Barbara Cassani, American-born business executive 27 July – Emily Thornberry, English politician 13 August – Phil Taylor, darts player 14 August – Sarah Brightman, English soprano singer and actress 16 August – Ijeoma Uchegbu, scientist 30 August – Ben Bradshaw, English Labour politician, Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare, and MP for Exeter September – October 3 September Perry Bamonte, English musician (died 2025) Nick Gibb, British Conservative politician, Shadow Minister of State for Schools, and MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton 6 September – Shirley Ballas, ballroom dancer and dance judge 9 September – Hugh Grant, English actor 10 September Margaret Ferrier, Scottish National Party politician2016-05-24 MyParliament - Biography for Margaret Ferrier http://myparliament.info/Member/4386 2024-05-31 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20160524030924/http://myparliament.info/Member/4386 24 May 2016 Colin Firth, English actor 16 September – Danny John-Jules, English dancer and actor 17 September – Damon Hill, English racing driver 19 September – Shaun Greenhalgh, English art forger 24 September – Tony Juniper, English environmentalist and politician 29 September – Andy Slaughter, British Labour politician and MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith 6 October – Richard Jobson, Scottish rock singer-songwriter, filmmaker and television presenter (Skids) 15 October – Simon Wigg, English speedway rider (died 2000) 16 October Cressida Dick, English police officer Graeme Sharp, Scottish football player and manager 17 October – Guy Henry, English actor 29 October – Finola Hughes, British actress November – December 5 November – Tilda Swinton, British film actress 10 November – Neil Gaiman, English author 15 November – Dawn Airey, broadcaster 17 November – Jonathan Ross, English television presenterOBE for broadcaster Jonathan Ross 10 June 2005 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4077812.stm BBC News 30 October 2008 18 November – Kim Wilde, English singer and gardener 20 November – Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (died 2008) 28 November – John Galliano, British fashion designer 30 November – Gary Lineker, English footballer and TV presenter 2 December – Rick Savage, English bassist (Def Leppard) 10 December – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director 11 December – John Lukic, English footballer 14 December – Chris Waddle, English footballer, commentator and newspaper columnist 17 December – Kay Burley, English broadcaster 24 December – Carol Vorderman, British television presenter 26 December – Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art historian and television presenter 27 December – Maryam d'Abo, British actress 28 December – Nicola Horlick, investment manager 31 December – Steve Bruce, footballer and football manager Undated James A. Robinson, English-born economist Josette Simon, actress Harriet Wistrich, lawyer and feminist Deaths 3 January – Constance Spry, English florist (born 1886) 7 January – Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (born 1878) 9 January – Elsie J. Oxenham, English children's novelist (born 1880) 11 January – Isabel Emslie Hutton, Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (born 1887) 12 January – Nevil Shute, English novelist and aeronautical engineer (born 1899) (died in Australia) 25 January – Rutland Boughton, English composer (born 1878) 8 February J. L. Austin, English philosopher of language (born 1911) (lung cancer) Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect (born 1880) 20 February – Sir Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (born 1880) 29 February – Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, last Vicereine of India (born 1901) 5 April – Peter Llewelyn Davies, English publisher, soldier and inspiration for Peter Pan (born 1897) (suicide) 1 May Harold Bradfield, Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bath and Wells (born 1898) (died in office) Charles Holden, architect (born 1875) 8 May Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, international lawyer (born 1897 in Ukraine) J. H. C. Whitehead, mathematician (born 1904 in Madras) (heart attack at Princeton, NJ) 7 June – Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, English Liberal politician and cricketer (born 1880) 27 June Lottie Dod, English sportswoman (born 1871)Grasso John Historical Dictionary of Tennis 2011 Scarecrow Press 9780810872370 85 https://books.google.com/books?id=W39oSS7c2xAC&pg=PA85 Harry Pollitt, English communist (born 1890) 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Labour politician (born 1897) 16 August – Pat O'Keeffe, middleweight boxer (born 1883) 24 August – Sir Harold Bowden, businessman and inventor (born 1880) 24 August – Sir Charles Lambe, admiral of the fleet, First Sea Lord (born 1900) 28 August – Charles Forbes, admiral (born 1880) 22 September Melanie Klein, Austrian-born psychoanalyst (born 1882) Amy Veness, English film actress (born 1876) 27 September – Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (born 1882) 30 September – St John Philby, British Arabist, explorer and spy (born 1885 in Ceylon) (died in Beirut) 21 October – Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, "Red Duchess", Scottish politician and humanitarian (born 1874) 16 November – Gilbert Harding, radio and television personality (born 1907) (asthma attack outside Broadcasting House) 13 December – Dora Marsden, radical feminist and modernist literary editor (born 1882) 20 December – Sir Godfrey Ince, civil servant (born 1891)https://books.google.com/books?id=yh0OAQAAMAAJ&q=sir+Godfrey+Herbert+Ince+Sept.+25,+1891 Obituaries from The Times, 1951–1960: Including an Index to All Obituaries and Tributes Appearing in The Times During the Years 1951–1960 Frank C. Roberts 1 January 1979 Newspaper Archive Developments 9780903713962 Google Books 22 December – Sir Ninian Comper, architect (born 1864) See also 1960 in British music 1960 in British television List of British films of 1960 1960 United Kingdom local elections References 1960 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1960 by country Category:1960s in the United Kingdom Category:1960 in Europe