1928 in the United Kingdom

none October 2020 January 2013 1928 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1928 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1928 in British radio 1928 in British television 1928 in British music Events from the year 1928 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) Events January – Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.Griffith Fred. The Significance of Pneumococcal Types Journal of Hygiene Cambridge University Press 27 2 113–159 4626734 20474956 2167760 10.1017/S0022172400031879 January 1928 1 January – Abolition of domestic slavery in the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone comes into effect.1928-01-03 250,000 Slaves in Sierra Leone, Africa, Freed Chicago Daily Tribune 3 6–7 January – River Thames floods in London; 14 drown. On 7 January, the moat at the Tower of London (drained in 1843 and planted with grass) is completely refilled by the river. 29 January – The country's leading World War general, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, dies of a heart attack in London aged 66. 3 February – Funeral ceremony of Earl Haig takes place at Westminster Abbey. 8 February – John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York.Transatlantic Television in 1928 http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1928.html Baird Television Extract from The New York Times 1928-02-09. 11–19 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland and win one bronze medal. 12 February An underground explosion at Haig Pit, Whitehaven, in the Cumberland Coalfield, kills thirteen miners undertaking clearance after an earlier fatal accident.Haig Pit Disasters – 13th Dec. 1927 & 12th Feb. 1928 http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Haig/Haig4.htm#top HealeyHero 2010-10-18 Heavy hailstorms kill eleven in England. 18 February – The Australian sport of motorcycle speedway is competitively demonstrated for the first time in the UK with a meet at High Beach in Epping Forest. 12 March – Malta becomes a British dominion. 1 April – Cinematograph Films Act 1927 comes into force, setting a minimum quota for British films to be shown in UK cinemas. 19 April – Publication of the original Oxford English Dictionary is completed after 70 years with issue of the last section ("wise – wyze") in Oxford.OED (1933, 1978 vol. 1, pp. xxv, xxvl). May – The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.Forfarshire's New Name The Times London 1928-10-24 8 45032 It was last May that the Forfarshire County Council passed a resolution... 1 May – The London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the 393 mi km of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 369–370 0-7126-5616-2 5 May – William Ralph "Dixie" Dean finishes the football season with a Football League record of 60 goals for First Division champions Everton.Dixie Dean: Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian Mirror Football http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/archive/Dixie-Dean-previously-unseen-pictures-of-the-Everton-legend-plus-original-Daily-Mirror-features-and-stories-from-our-archive-article1041.html Daily Mirror 2011-11-30 16 May – Opening of Royal Tweed Bridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed, constructed from reinforced concrete to the design of L. G. Mouchel & Partners.Royal Tweed Bridge http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=378 Engineering Timelines 2010-11-01 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120307231546/https://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=378 2012-03-07 17 May–12 August – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Amsterdam and win 3 gold, 10 silver and 7 bronze medals. 13 June – Savidge Inquiry issues its final report, recommending improvements in police procedures for questioning, particularly of women.Savidge, (Marjorie) Irene (1905–1985), factory worker and subject of police interrogation https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-101236 2020-08-16 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/101236 2020-08-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20200823135908/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-101236;jsessionid=65D5C8016FF6DE7F7D2606CDA509441F live 27 June – Darlington rail crash: a head-on collision kills 25 people. 2 July – Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 given royal assent and comes into effect, lowering the voting age for women from 30 to 21 and removing remaining property qualifications from them, giving them equal suffrage with men (passed in Parliament 7 May).Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 3 July – John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 27 July – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 wickets in first-class cricket before the end of July. 26 August – In Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.Chapman Matthew The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson London Wildy, Simmons & Hill 2010 0-85490-049-7 15 September – Tich Freeman sets all-time record for number of wickets taken in an English cricket season. 28 September Scottish-born microbiologist Alexander Fleming, at St Mary's Hospital, London, accidentally rediscovers the antibiotic which he will call Penicillin.Dubey R. C. Text book of Microbiology S. Chand & Company Ltd New Delhi 1999 9788121926201 579 Dangerous Drugs Act 1925 comes into effect, placing restrictions on the use of cannabis.Sean Blackwood How cannabis was criminalised http://www.idmu.co.uk/historical.html Independent Drug Monitoring Unit 2010-08-17July 2026 InternetArchiveBot 10 October – Tyne Bridge opens, connecting Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead.http://www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/tynebri.html The Tyne Bridge Bridges on the Tyne 2006 9–16 November – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a campaign by James Douglas in the Sunday Express newspaper.Baker Michael Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall GMP Publishers 1985 London 0-85449-042-6 12 November – Randall Davidson becomes the first Archbishop of Canterbury to retire, having served for twenty-five years, the longest in this office since the Reformation.Stuart Mews Davidson, Randall Thomas, Baron Davidson of Lambeth (1848–1930) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32733 He is created 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth three days later.33439 16 November 1928 7465 15 November – The Mary Stanford life-boat capsizes on service in Rye Harbour: all 17 crew lost. 22 November – Following passage of the Currency and Banknotes Act on 2 July, the Bank of England resumes responsibility for issue of banknotes from HM Treasury and issues pound and (for the first time) ten shilling notes, the first to be printed in colour and on both sides.United Kingdom Banknotes http://www.btinternet.com/~ianb/sterling.htm 2010-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20100416224603/http://www.btinternet.com/~ianb/sterling.htm 16 April 2010 23–25 November – A windstorm affects parts of northwestern Europe and kills 38 people, mainly in England.Dead In Gale Sweeping Europe https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1997948352.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+18%2C+1928&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+%281928-1960%29&desc=DEAD+IN+GALE+SWEEPING+EUROPE&pqatl=google https://archive.today/20120715135745/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/1997948352.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+18,+1928&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=DEAD+IN+GALE+SWEEPING+EUROPE&pqatl=google dead 15 July 2012 21 February 2012 Daily Boston Globe 18 November 1928 4 December – Cosmo Lang enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury,Alan Wilkinson Lang, (William) Cosmo Gordon, Baron Lang of Lambeth (1864–1945) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34398 the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.Religion:York to Canterbury Time Time Inc. New York 6 August 1928 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101121035432/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787459,00.html dead 2010-11-21 20 December – The first Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop opens in Yorkshire. 24 December – The first Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols to be broadcast from King's College Chapel, Cambridge, by BBC Radio.Nine lessons and carols: History of the service http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/ninelessons/history.html King's College Chapel Cambridge 2008-03-09 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080315084716/http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/ninelessons/history.html 2008-03-15. Undated Mond–Turner talks between industrialist Sir Alfred Mond and chairman of the Trades Union Congress Ben Turner on consensual approaches to industrial relations.http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-3225-f5.cfm The Mond-Turner talks TUC 1968 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120314122702/https://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-3225-f5.cfm 14 March 2012 First high-voltage electricity pylon for the National Grid is erected, near Edinburgh.BBC: The Genius of Design – Designs for living Owen Willans Richardson wins the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him". This award is announced on 12 November 1929.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1928/ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 2008-01-28 British Home Stores opens its first department store at Brixton, London.http://www.bhs.co.uk/mall/departmentpage.cfm/bhsstore/217968/1/1 Our History British Home Stores 2011-11-30 8 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154647/http://www.bhs.co.uk/mall/departmentpage.cfm/bhsstore/217968/1/1 dead Uffa Fox launches his first planing sailing dinghy, Avenger, in the International 14 class and wins 52 out of 57 races. He sails Avenger across the Channel and competes in some races in Cherbourg Harbour. Sport Everton F.C. win the Championship. Blackburn Rovers F.C. 3 Huddersfield F.C. 1 (F.A. Cup) René Lacoste Wimbledon Men's Champion Helen Wills Wimbledon Women's Champion Swinton win rugby league's All Four Cups in season 1927–28 Publications Edmund Blunden's autobiographical Undertones of War. Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Hotel. Joyce Lankester Brisley's children's collection Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories, introducing the title character in book form. Leslie Charteris's first Simon Templar novel Meet the Tiger. Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. Ford Madox Ford's novel Last Post, last of the Parade's End tetralogy. Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness. Aldous Huxley's novel Point Counter Point. D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover published in Italy; it will not be published in Britain until 1960. Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women. W. Somerset Maugham's short stories Ashenden: Or the British Agent.H. R. F. Keating H. R. F. Keating Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction London Windward 1982 0-7112-0249-4 Oxford English Dictionary completed (19 April). Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club and collected short stories Lord Peter Views the Body. Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel Decline and Fall. Clough Williams-Ellis' tract England and the Octopus. Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography. Births 2 January – Harry Hyams, property speculator (died 2015) 3 January – Michael Barratt, television presenter (died 2022) 5 January – Denise Bryer, voice actress (died 2021) 11 January – Alan Bowness, art historian (died 2021)The Times 10 January 2009, Retrieved 2010-01-09 17 January Matt McGinn, Scottish folk musician, writer and entertainer (died 1977) Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist (died 2012) 18 January – Terence Higgins, athlete and politician 19 January – Joan Regan, singer (died 2013) 21 January – Barbara Harvey, medieval historian (died 2025) 24 January – Desmond Morris, anthropologist and writer (died 2026) 28 January – Stan Barstow, novelist (died 2011) 29 January – Peter Byrne, actor and director (died 2018) 2 February – Felix Pirani, theoretical physicist (died 2015) 8 February – Osian Ellis, Welsh harpist (died 2021) 10 February Anthony Dawes, character actor (died 2021) John Ringham, actor and playwright (died 2008) 13 February – Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham, chemist and academic (died 2014) 14 February Mark Eden, actor (died 2021) David Kimche, British-born Israeli diplomat (died 2010) 17 February – Seán Mac Stíofáin, IRA terrorist (died 2001) 21 February – Cecil Sandford, English motorcycle racer (died 2023) 22 February – Bruce Forsyth, entertainer (died 2017) 23 February – David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, peer (died 2017) 29 February Joss Ackland, actor (died 2023) Jean Adamson, children's writer and illustrator (died 2024) Michael Henshall, bishop (died 2017) 2 March – Katharine Whitehorn, journalist (died 2021) 4 March – Alan Sillitoe, writer (died 2010) 5 March – Diana Coupland, actress (died 2006) 6 March – Glyn Owen, actor (died 2004) 10 March – Arthur Milton, cricketer and footballer (died 2007) 12 March – Philip Jones, trumpeter (died 2000) 13 March – Jane Grigson, cookery writer (died 1990) 16 March Victor Maddern, actor (died 1993) George Styles, army lieutenant-colonel, George Cross winner (died 2006) 17 March Eunice Gayson, actress (died 2018) Katharine Whitehorn, newspaper columnist (died 2021) 23 March Alf Morris, politician (died 2012) Geoffrey Smith, gardener and television presenter (died 2009) Raymond Wilson, physicist (died 2018) 26 March – John H. Edwards, geneticist (died 2007) 29 March – Philip Locke, actor (died 2004) 30 March – Tom Sharpe, author (died 2013) 31 March – Dilys Hamlett, actress (died 2002) 2 April – April Cantelo, soprano (died 2024) 3 April – Jennifer Paterson, chef and broadcaster (died 1999) 4 April – Jimmy Logan, actor and producer (died 2001) 5 April – Michael Bryant, actor (died 2002) 6 April – Peter Townsend, sociologist (died 2009) 7 April – James White, science fiction writer (died 1999) 8 April – Eric Porter, actor (died 1995) 9 April – Ian Ward, physicist (died 2018) 13 April – Alan Clark, politician and diarist (died 1999) 14 April Cyril Mango, Byzantine scholar (died 2021) John Roberts, historian (died 2003) 19 April – Alexis Korner, musician (died 1984) 23 April – Bill Cotton, television executive (died 2008) 24 April – Tommy Docherty, football player and manager (died 2020) 25 April Jack Fitzmaurice, snooker player (died 2005) James MacTaggart, television producer (died 1974) 30 April Dickie Davies, sports presenter (died 2023) Alf Lomas, politician (died 2021) 1 May – Desmond Titterington, racing driver (died 2002) 8 May – John Bennett, actor (died 2005) 9 May – Colin Chapman, automotive engineer (died 1982) 10 May – John Forbes-Robertson, actor (died 2008) 12 May – Gordon Shattock, British veterinarian, Conservative politician and survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing (died 2010) 18 May John Abineri, actor (died 2000) Peter Hammersley, rear admiral (died 2020) 23 May – Jeannie Carson, actress 27 May – Thea Musgrave, Scottish composer 29 May – Frederick Jaeger, actor (born in Germany; died 2004) 31 May – Derek Ufton, cricketer and footballer (died 2021) 1 June – Bob Monkhouse, comedian and game show host (died 2003)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/specials/article840298.ece Bob Monkhouse – The Times obituary 31 August 2008 Times Online 29 December 2003 London Fiona HamiltonSeptember 2024 medicmedic 3 June – Archie Hind, novelist (died 2008) 4 June – Paul Greening, naval officer and courtier (died 2008) 5 June – Tony Richardson, film director (died 1991) 6 June Nicolas Rea, 3rd Baron Rea, physician and politician (died 2020) R. D. Wingfield, novelist and radio dramatist (died 2007) 7 June Ken McKinlay, racing cyclist (died 2003) Reg Park, bodybuilder (died 2007) 8 June – John Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford, aristocrat (died 2018) 14 June – Rosemary Rue, physician (died 2004) 15 June – Adele Leigh, opera singer (died 2004) 17 June – Basil McIvor, politician (died 2004) 19 June Margaret Maughan, paralympian (died 2020) Ray Powell, politician (died 2001) Barry Took, comedian, scriptwriter and television presenter (died 2002) 21 June – Maurice Line, librarian (died 2010) 25 June – Peter Sawyer, historian (died 2018) 28 June Stan Barstow, novelist (died 2011) Harold Evans, newspaper editor (died 2020) 29 June – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (died 1999) 30 June – Tony Conyers, journalist (died 2011) 1 July – Jim Hankinson, footballer (died 2016) 2 July – John Timpson, journalist and radio presenter (died 2005) 3 July – Evelyn Anthony, writer (died 2018) 4 July – Patrick Tilley, science fiction author (died 2021) 5 July – Jeremy Moore, officer in the Royal Marines (died 2007) 6 July Peter Glossop, opera singer (died 2008) Antony Hignell, cricketer and javelin thrower (died 2015) 7 July – Pat Hitchcock, actress (died 2021) 8 July – Gordon Hill, football player (died 2019) 10 July – Patsy Burt, racing driver (died 2001) 11 July Jane Gardam, writer (died 2025) Greville Janner, politician, barrister and writer (died 2015) 12 July Alastair Burnet, journalist and broadcaster (died 2012) Kathy Staff, actress (died 2008) 14 July Haydn Morris, British and Irish Lions international rugby union wing three-quarter (died 2021) Moira Redmond, actress (died 2006) William Rees-Mogg, journalist and editor (died 2012) 16 July – Anita Brookner, novelist and art historian (died 2016) 20 July – Peter Ind, jazz double bassist and record producer (died 2021) 21 July Jervis Percy, modern pentathlete George Brian Sinclair, army officer (died 2020) 22 July – Jimmy Hill, footballer and television sports presenter (died 2015) 26 July – Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, politician Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958" index https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ASarah~%20%2Bsurname%3AViner~%20%2Brecord_country%3AIreland FamilySearch (died 2025) 5 August – Carla Lane, born Romana Barrack, television comedy scriptwriter (died 2016) 6 August – Vince Powell, scriptwriter (died 2009) 7 August – Owen Luder, architect (died 2021) 8 August – Alfred Hayes, wrestler and wrestling announcer (died 2005) 10 August – Henry Sandon, tv antiques expert (died 2023) 12 August – Maureen Colquhoun, economist and politician (died 2021) 15 August – Nicolas Roeg, film director (died 2018) 19 August – Bernard Levin, writer and journalist (died 2004) 21 August Chris Brasher, athlete (died 2003) Gillian Sheen, Olympic champion fencer (died 2021) Barbara Steveni, conceptual artist (died 2020) 28 August – Charles Gray, actor (died 2000) 29 August – Peter Miles, actor (died 2018) 5 September – Joyce Hatto, pianist (died 2006) 6 September – Norman Holwell, speed skater (died 2020) 14 September – Angus Ogilvy, businessman (died 2004) 17 September – Roddy McDowall, actor (died 1998) 22 September – Eric Broadley, race car builder, founder of Lola Cars (died 2017) 25 September – Keith Clayton, geographer and environmental scientist (died 2013)E Andrews Julian 10.1093/ref:odnb/106222 Clayton, Keith Martin 1 January 2017 27 September – Geoffrey Martin, historian (died 2007) 1 October – Jim Radford, peace activist and folk singer (died 2020) 8 October – Bill Maynard, comic actor (died 2018) 10 October – Sheila Walsh, novelist (died 2009) 11 October – Geoffrey Tordoff, politician (died 2019) 14 October – Peter Jackson, politician (died 2020) 17 October – Michael Palmer, senior British Army officer (died 2017) 18 October – Dick Taverne, politician 20 October – Michael O'Donnell, physician, journalist, medical campaigner and broadcaster (died 2019) 21 October – Ken Major, architect (died 2009) 28 October – Bill Rodgers, politician, member of the "Gang of Four" 29 October – Cecil Humphery-Smith, genealogist and heraldist (died 2021) 30 October Charles Brett, architectural historian (died 2005) Peter Wales, Sussex cricketer (died 2018) 31 October – Michael J. Bird, writer (died 2001) 2 November – Paul Johnson, journalist, historian and author (died 2023) 5 November – John Bailey, lawyer and public servant (died 2021) 7 November – Arthur Davidson, politician (died 2018) 8 November – Edward Goldsmith, environmentalist and philosopher (died 2009) 12 November – Maureen Gardner, athlete (died 1974) 15 November – John Orchard, actor (died 1995) 17 November – Don Lawrence, comic book artist (died 2003) 22 November Tim Beaumont, politician and Anglican priest (died 2008) Pat Smythe, show jumper (died 1996) 26 November John Acland, major-general (died 2006) John Barton, theatre director (died 2018) 6 December – Stanley Clinton-Davis, English politician, solicitor (died 2023) 10 December – Jeremy Morse, English banker, academic and crossword compiler (died 2016) 11 December Paul Bircher, rower (died 2019)2019-10-24 1948 Olympic Silver Medallist Paul Bircher Dies https://heartheboatsing.com/2019/10/24/1948-olympic-silver-medallist-paul-bircher-dies/ 2020-11-03 Hear The Boat Sing en-GB Peter Firmin, children's stop-motion animator (died 2018) 12 December – Lionel Blair, Canadian-born English actor, choreographer, dancer and television presenter (died 2021) 19 December – Antony Buck, politician (died 2003) 20 December – Donald Adams, actor and opera singer (died 1996) 29 December Bernard Cribbins, comic actor (died 2022) Piers Dixon, Conservative politician (died 2017) Deaths 11 January – Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (born 1840) 21 January – Sir John de Robeck, admiral (born 1862) 29 January – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, soldier (born 1861) 15 February – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1852) 21 March – Edward Walter Maunder, astronomer (born 1851) 24 March – Charlotte Mew, poet, suicide (born 1869) 5 April – Roy Kilner, cricketer (born 1890) 10 April – Stanley J. Weyman, novelist (born 1855) 15 April – Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar, linguist and feminist (born 1850) 1 May – Sir Ebenezer Howard, urban planner (born 1850) 3 May – Walter Biggar Blaikie, astronomer, engineer, historian and printer (born 1847) 5 May – Barry Pain, writer (born 1864) 16 May – Edmund Gosse, poet and critic (born 1849) 10 June – Dennis Eadie, Scottish-born character actor (born 1869) 13 June – Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, politician and colonial governor (born 1843) 14 June – Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (born 1858) 1 July – John Elmes Beale, politician and merchant (born 1847) 6 July – Frederick Green, footballer (born 1851) 21 July – Dame Ellen Terry, actress (born 1847) 17 August – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, statesman and author (born 1838) 19 August – Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, politician and lawyer (born 1856) 30 August – Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (born 1862) 27 November – Frank Hedges Butler, wine merchant, founding member of the Aero Club of Great Britain (born 1855) 1 December – Arthur Gore, tennis player (born 1868) 2 December – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, 2nd Governor-General of Australia (born 1852) 10 December – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish-born architect (born 1868) 17 December – Eglantyne Jebb, human rights activist, co-founder of Save the Children (born 1876) See also List of British films of 1928 References 30em 1928 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1928 by country Category:1920s in the United Kingdom Category:1929 in Europe