1925 in the United Kingdom

none October 2020 January 2013 1925 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1925 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1925 in British radio 1925 in British music Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) Events January – Construction of the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed begins.New Tweed Bridge Shields Daily News 1925-01-16 4 February – The statue of Eros is taken away from Piccadilly Circus in London so that the new Underground station can be built. It will not return until 1931.Goodbye Piccadilly 1925-02-16 British Pathé https://www.britishpathe.com/video/goodbye-piccadilly 2022-04-11 9 March–1 May – Pink's War: The British Royal Air Force bombards mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South Waziristan. 9 April – Administration of Estates Act abolishes the legal rule of primogeniture in England and Waleshttp://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1925/cukpga_19250023_en_1 Administration of Estates Act 1925 (c. 23) OPSI Revised Statutes from The UK Statute Law Database 2010-09-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20100925100259/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1925/cukpga_19250023_en_1 25 September 2010 dead and the remnants of gavelkind in Kent; Law of Property Act modernises the law relating to real estate (both Acts come into effect 1 January 1926). 28 April – Presenting the Baldwin ministry's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standardMercer Derrik 1989 Chronicle of the 20th Century London Chronicle Communications Ltd. 328–29 978-0-582-03919-3 (the gold bullion standard rather than the specie standard). 1 May – Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 365–366 0-7126-5616-2 29 May – Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon. 10 June – Dibbles Bridge coach crash: a tour coach runs away following brake failure and falls off a bridge near Hebden, North Yorkshire, en route to Bolton Abbey, killing seven passengers.Wheels of Industry Commercial Motor http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/16th-june-1925/4/wheels-of-industry 23 August 2014 16 June 1925 1–30 June – The second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of the twentieth century) with an average rainfall of only 4.3 mm in.Hadley Center Ranked EWP. 27 July – The British Broadcasting Company's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter, taking over from its Chelmsford facility.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 31 July – Red Friday: the Government announces that it will grant a subsidy to the coal industry for nine months to maintain existing wage levels while a Royal Commission conducts an inquiry into the industry's problems. 5 August – Establishment of political party Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, initially focussing on Welsh language issues.Alan Butt Philip The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945–1970 https://archive.org/details/welshquestionnat0000phil registration Cardiff University of Wales Press 1975 0-7083-0537-7 7 August Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 passed in the aftermath of Lloyd George's sale of peerages and other honours for political party funds.A history of the UK's honours scandals The Week UK 2022-03-04 https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/954041/a-short-history-of-the-uks-honour-scandals 2024-02-21 National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. 2 October – In London: John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image.R. W. Burns Television: An International History of the Formative Years 1998 London Institution of Electrical Engineers 9780852969144 264 The city's first double-decker buses with covered top decks are introduced.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/X20L/Themes/1/1095/default.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090419185904/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/X20L/Themes/1/1095/default.htm dead 19 April 2009 Buses Exploring 20th century London Museum of London 2010-06-25 29 October – Observer Corps established as a volunteer civil defence organisation for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of raids by aircraft over Britain. 2 November – Eigiau Dam disaster kills seventeen in the North Wales village of Dolgarrog.Eric Jones David Gwyn Dolgarrog: an Industrial History Caernarfon Gwynedd Archives 1989 0-901337-50-1 The Dam Disaster 113–25 3 November – Alfred Hitchcock's first (silent) film, The Pleasure Garden, completed (but not released in the UK until 16 January 1927). 7 November – The Morning Post, a Conservative London newspaper, publishes a leaked report of the Irish Boundary Commission's (limited) proposals for altering the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which are contrary to the Free State's view; publication effectively ends the work of the commission. 12 November – Submarine M1 1917 6 sinks in the English Channel after collision with a civilian surface vessel with the loss of all 69 hands.Innes 2002 McCartney Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel Penzance Periscope 9781904381044 16 November – Carmaker Vauxhall Motors of Luton is purchased by American giant General Motors for $2.5 million.Vauxhall's history in Luton Where I Live – Beds, Herts & Bucks https://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/community/vauxhall/history.shtml BBC 2011-09-21 August 2002 1 December – Locarno Treaties signed in London. The United Kingdom is a joint guarantor of the boundaries of Belgium, France and Germany. 3 December – A settlement on the boundary question between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland is presented in London. Controversially, there is no change to the border, in exchange for the Free State's liability for service of the U.K. public debt in respect of war pensions being dropped. The agreement is approved during this month by the U.K. and Free State legislatures. 10 December – Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact.The Nobel Peace Prize 1925. 16 December – Construction of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey begins.http://www.merseytravel.net/information_tunnel_history.html Merseytravel 2008-04-07H3llBot September 2011 Undated Clough Williams-Ellis begins construction of Portmeirion in North Wales. American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst buys the medieval St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.Enfys McMurry Hearst's Other Castle Bridgend Seren 1999 1-85411-228-7 Publications Elinor Brent-Dyer's schoolgirl story The School at the Chalet, first in the Chalet School series. G. K. Chesterton's book The Everlasting Man. Agatha Christie's novel The Secret of Chimneys. Warwick Deeping's novel Sorrell and Son.Q. D. Leavis Q. D. Leavis Fiction and the Reading Public rev. London Chatto & Windus 1965 T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men". Aldous Huxley's novel Those Barren Leaves. Margaret Kennedy's novel The Constant Nymph. Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Births 3 January – Jill Balcon, actress (died 2009) 7 January – Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (at Jamshedpur, India) (died 1995) 8 January – James Saunders, playwright (died 2004) 13 January – David Francis Clyde, physician (died 2002) 19 January – Nina Bawden, writer (died 2012) 24 January – Owen Maddock, racing car designer (died 2000) 26 January Desmond Cassidi, admiral (died 2019) David Jenkins, Anglican bishop (died 2016) 31 January – Fred Brown, virologist (died 2004) 3 February – John Gingell, air marshal (died 2009) 11 February – Peter Berger, admiral (died 2003) 13 February – Stuart Wagstaff, English-Australian actor (died 2015) 10 February – Joseph McKeown, photojournalist (died 2007) 12 February – Anthony Berry, British Conservative politician (murdered by IRA terrorists in the Brighton hotel bombing 1984) 17 February – Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (died 2003) 28 February Harry H. Corbett, actor (died 1982) Billy March, footballer (died 1974)http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player7/billymarch.html BILLY MARCH Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database 5 September 2013 4 March – Alan R. Battersby, organic chemist (died 2018) 7 March – Richard Vernon, actor (died 1997) 11 March – Peter R. Hunt, film director (died 2002) 14 March John Jacobs, English golfer (died 2017) John Wain, writer (born 1994) 15 March – Francis Dennis Ramsay, portrait painter (died 2009) 20 March – Billy Elliott, footballer (died 2008) 21 March Peter Brook, theatre and film director (died 2022) Ronald Whittam, scientist (died 2023) 23 March – David Watkin, cinematographer (died 2008) 24 March – Bill Nankeville, Olympic middle distance runner (died 2021) 25 March – Anthony Quinton, philosopher (died 2010) 26 March Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, politician (died 2020) Michael Ward, mountaineer and surgeon (died 2005) 27 March – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, farmer and politician (died 2022) 28 March - Morris Perry, actor (died 2021) 1 April – Kathy Stobart, saxophonist (died 2014) 2 April – George MacDonald Fraser, author (died 2008) 3 April – Tony Benn, politician (died 2014) 9 April – Michael Richardson, investment banker (died 2003) 12 April – Oliver Postgate, animator, puppeteer and writer (died 2008) 14 April – William Lucas, actor (died 2016) 15 April – Geraint Howells, politician (died 2004) 21 April – John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician (died 2018) 22 April – George Cole, actor (died 2015) 23 April – Alec Penstone, naval veteran (died 2026) 24 April – Leslie Alcock, archaeologist (died 2006) 25 April Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, businessman and politician (died 2026) Patrick David Wall, neuroscientist (died 2001) 27 April – Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, newspaper publisher (died 1998) 1 May – Helen Bamber, psychotherapist and academic (died 2014) 4 May – Rex Roe, air marshal (died 2002) 11 May – Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (died 2012) 14 May – Tristram Cary, composer (died 2008) 15 May – Roy Stewart, actor (born in Jamaica; died 2008) 26 May – Alec McCowen, actor (died 2017) 27 May – John L. Harper, biologist (died 2009) 30 May – John Marks, physician and author (died 2022) 3 June – Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (died 2001) 4 June – Gerald Sim, actor (died 2014) 5 June – Bill Sellars, television producer (died 2018) 6 June – Michael ffolkes, illustrator and cartoonist (died 1988) 9 June – Margaret Rhodes, aristocrat and courtier (died 2016) 15 June – Richard Baker, broadcaster (died 2018) 18 June – Carmel Budiardjo, human rights activist (died 2021) 19 June Charlie Drake, comedian, actor and singer (died 2006) Oliver Frederick Ford, interior designer (died 1992) 22 June – Frank Hindle, footballer (died 2013) 23 June – Miriam Karlin, actress (died 2011) 26 June – Richard Waring, comedy writer (died 1994) 29 June – Mervyn Alexander, Roman Catholic bishop (died 2010)https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10979348 Former Bishop of Clifton Mervyn Alexander dies, aged 85 The BBC 15 August 2010 15 August 2010 11 July – David Graham, actor and voice artist (died 2024) 12 July – Rosie Harris, author (died 2024) 17 July – Hugh David, actor and director (died 1987) 18 July – Hubert Doggart, sports administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster (died 2018) 19 July – Jack Petchey, businessman (died 2024) 27 July – Harry Towb, actor (died 2009) 28 July Kenneth Alwyn, conductor, composer and writer (died 2020) John Stonehouse, disgraced government minister (died 1988) 29 July – Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, nobleman (died 2012) 30 July Stan Stennett, Welsh comedian, actor and jazz musician (died 2013) Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (died 1984) 1 August – Pam Gems, English playwright (d. 2011)Lyn Gardner Obituary: Pam Gems, The Guardian, 16 May 2011 11 August – Michael Argyle, psychologist (died 2002) 12 August Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (died 2004) Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (killed 1975) 18 August – Brian Aldiss, science fiction author (died 2017) 22 August Honor Blackman, actress (died 2020) Ivor Salter, actor (died 1991) 26 August – Sangharakshita, born Dennis Lingwood, Buddhist teacher (died 2018) 27 August – Nat Lofthouse, footballer (died 2011) 28 August – Philip Purser, author and television critic (died 2022) 2 September – Ronnie Stevens, comedian and actor (died 2006) 5 September – Patrick Leo McCartie, Roman Catholic bishop (died 2020) 6 September – Nina Lowry, judge (died 2017) 8 September – Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (died 1980) 10 September – Dick Lucas, minister and cleric 15 September – John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, politician (died 2020) 22 September William Franklyn, actor (died 2006) Stratford Johns, actor (died 2002) 23 September – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (died 2006) 27 September – Robert Edwards, physiologist and pioneer of in vitro fertilisation (died 2013) 1 October Christine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2005) Diana Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist (died 2015) 5 October – Ken Middleditch, motorcycle speedway racer (died 2021) 6 October – John Stanier, field marshal (died 2007) thumb|120px|Margaret Thatcher 1925–201313 October – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2013)Obituary: Margaret Thatcher https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10364876 BBC News 24 November 2020 8 April 2013 14 October – Christopher French, judge (died 2003) 15 October Tony Hart, artist and television presenter (died 2009) Jean Briggs Watters, cryptanalyst and Women's Royal Naval Service personnel (died 2018) 16 October – Angela Lansbury, actress (died 2022) 17 October Harry Carpenter, boxing commentator (died 2010) Patricia Kneale, actress (died 2008) 19 October – Bernard Hepton, stage and television actor and director (died 2018) 27 October Paul Fox, television executive (died 2024) Monica Sims, radio executive (died 2018) 29 October Paul Daneman, actor (died 2001) Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet, aristocrat and Chief Scout (died 2018) Robert Hardy, actor (died 2017) 31 October John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004) Tommy Watt, jazz bandleader (died 2006) 1 November – Dickson Mabon, politician (died 2008) 9 November – Ken Ashton, journalist and trade unionist (died 2002) 10 November – Richard Burton, actor (died 1984) 11 November Nigel Cecil, naval officer (died 2017) John Guillermin, director (died 2015) June Whitfield, comic actress (died 2018) 15 November – Paul Raymond, publisher (died 2008) 23 November – Elaine Horseman, author and educator (died 1999) 25 November – Priscilla Young, social worker (died 2006)Stevenson Olive 97837 Young, Priscilla Helen Ferguson 7 January 2010 27 November John Maddox, science writer (died 2009) Ernie Wise, comedian (died 1999) 30 November – Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, politician (died 2004) 5 December – Alastair McCorquodale, cricketer and athlete (died 2009) 6 December – Oliver Bernard, English poet and translator (died 2013) 11 December – Patrick Reyntiens, stained glass artist (died 2021)Patrick Reyntiens, genius of 20th-century stained glass who with John Piper created jewel-like windows for Liverpool and Coventry cathedrals – obituary 23 December Duncan Hallas, Trotskyist (died 2002) Rayner Unwin, publisher (died 2000) 30 December – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor (died 2002 in Germany)Ian MacNaughton https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4d5609 https://web.archive.org/web/20180321031002/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f4d5609 dead 21 March 2018 BFI 21 April 2021 en 31 December Richard Gordon, producer (died 2011) Daphne Oram, composer and musician (died 2003) Deaths 14 January – Harry Furniss, cartoonist, illustrator and pioneer animator (born 1854) 18 January – J. M. E. McTaggart, English philosopher (born 1866)mctaggart John M E McTaggart McDaniel Chris 26 January – Sir James Mackenzie, Scottish cardiologist (born 1853) 30 January – Jim Driscoll ("Peerless Jim"), Welsh featherweight boxer (born 1880) 3 February – Oliver Heaviside, mathematician and physicist (born 1850) 4 February – William Haggar, cinema pioneer (born 1851)Peter Yorke Peter Yorke William Haggar (1851-1925): fairground film-maker https://books.google.com/books?id=mus4AQAAIAAJ 2007 Accent Press Bedlinog 978-1-905170-87-6 114 2021-09-12 2021-09-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20210912114101/https://books.google.com/books?id=mus4AQAAIAAJ live 6 February – James Kenyon, businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850) 22 February – Sir Clifford Allbutt, physician (born 1836) 24 February – Joseph Rowntree, Quaker sweet manufacturer and philanthropist (born 1836) 4 March – James Ward, philosopher and psychologist (born 1843) 20 March – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859) 23 March – Bessie Rayner Parkes, journalist and feminist (born 1829) 28 March – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (born 1864) 4 April – W. W. Rouse Ball, mathematician and lawyer (born 1850) 6 April – Xie Kitchin, child photographic model for Lewis Carroll (born 1864) 14 April – John Singer Sargent, American-born portrait painter (born 1856) 20 April – Herbert Lawford, tennis player (born 1851) 7 May William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, soap-maker and philanthropist (born 1851) Sir Doveton Sturdee, admiral (born 1859)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36364?docPos=1 Doveton Sturdee 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/36364 2014-12-07 13 May – Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, politician and colonial administrator (born 1854) Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount x 14 May – H. Rider Haggard, adventure novelist (born 1856)Rider Haggard Dies in London Hospital. Author of 'She,' 'King Solomon's Mines' and Many Other Novels Was Nearly 69. He Was Knighted in 1912. An Authority on Agriculture and Sociology. Served on Government Missions https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/15/archives/rider-haggard-dies-in-london-hospital-author-of-she-king-solomons.html The New York Times 15 May 1925 2012-11-18 22 May – John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, World War I field marshal (born 1852) 19 July – John Indermaur, lawyer (born 1851) 30 July – William Wynn Westcott, freemason (born 1848) 20 November – Alexandra of Denmark, dowager queen consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1844)Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/queen-alexandra-wife-of-edward-vii Westminster Abbey 7 October 2022 en 24 November – Margaret Sinclair (Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds), Scottish-born nun and venerable (born 1900) 26 November – Sir Jervoise Baines, colonial civil servant (born 1847) 17 December – A. N. Hornby, cricketer and rugby player (born 1847) 18 December – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, figure sculptor (born 1850) 28 December – Louisa Aldrich-Blake, surgeon (born 1865) See also List of British films of 1925 References 1925 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1925 by country Category:1920s in the United Kingdom Category:1925 in Europe