1930 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 January 2013 1930 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1930 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1930 in British radio 1930 in British television 1930 in British music Events from the year 1930 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (Labour) Events thumb|right|200px|R101 in flight 1 January – the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain begins publishing a newspaper, the Daily Worker. 1 February – The Times publishes its first original crossword. March – fitness organisation the Women's League of Health and Beauty set up by Mary Bagot Stack; by 1939 it will have over 100,000 members.The Fitness League History http://www.thefitnessleague.com/about-us/the-fitness-league-history Fitness League 2011-01-10 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090729135514/http://www.thefitnessleague.com/about-us/the-fitness-league-history 29 July 2009 9 March – the British Broadcasting Corporation opens its second high-power medium-wave transmitter at Brookmans Park, north of London, and with it launches its "Regional Scheme" which sees station 5XX renamed as the National Programme while 2LO becomes the London Regional Programme. 29 March – Shaun Goilin wins the Grand National, ridden by Tommy Cullinan. April – John Gielgud plays the title role of Hamlet for the first time, at The Old Vic in London.Morley Sheridan Sheridan Morley 2001 John – The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud London Hodder & Stoughton 0340368039 459–77 1 April – Poor law unions and workhouses abolished under the Local Government Act 1929, responsibility for public assistance transferring to local authorities and workhouses becoming hospitals or public assistance institutions under their control. 18 April – BBC radio listeners uniquely hear the announcement "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news."Cara Giaimo The Day Without News Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bbc-no-news-today 2018-04-18 2020-04-25 Piano music follows. 22 April – the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 30 April – first section of the 132kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh.http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005 29 September 2005 Alan Shaw Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011-01-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20090304090015/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf 4 March 2009 dead 5 May – an explosion on the eleventh floor of Bibby's oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves five dead and almost one hundred injured. 5–24 May – Yorkshire-born Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (11,000 miles to landing at Darwin).Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 978-0-14-102715-9 2006 28 May – the BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed as a permanent full-scale ensemble under the directorship of Adrian Boult. It gives its first concert on 22 October at the Queen's Hall, London.Boult Adrian My Own Trumpet London Hamish Hamilton 1973 0241024455 99 5 July – the Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference condones the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier. 10 July – Mental Treatment Act 1930 provides for free voluntary treatment for psychiatric conditions and for psychiatric outpatient clinics, replaces the term "asylum" with "mental hospital" and reorganises the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency. 14 July – transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth. 25 July – Laurence Olivier marries actress Jill Esmond. 29 July – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada. 1 August Housing Act (promoted by Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health) provides government subsidy for slum clearance,The History Today Companion to British History https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse registration London Collins & Brown 978-1-85585-178-8 1995 391 and construction of further new council houses as replacements.http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/overview/councilhousing/ Council housing 2012-09-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20130103195552/http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/towncountry/towns/overview/councilhousing/ 2013-01-03 Poor Prisoners' Defence Act provides for limited extension of legal aid.Poor Prisoners' Defence Act 1930 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/20-21/32/contents/enacted legislation.gov.uk 2025-11-15 7 August – two million people are unemployed. 16 August – the first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 29 August – remaining inhabitants of the island of St Kilda, Scotland, are voluntarily evacuated to the mainland.http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame1.htm St Kilda National Trust for Scotland 2010-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20100831172220/http://www.kilda.org.uk/frame1.htm 31 August 2010 live 12 September – England cricketer Wilfred Rhodes plays the final match in his international career, by taking 5 for 95 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI, against the Australians. At the age of 52, he also becomes the oldest man to play in a Test match.Norris McWhirter The Guinness book of records https://books.google.com/books?id=vO68omlcUvYC 1988 Guinness Superlatives 978-0-85112-878-8 239 24 September – first performance of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives at the Phoenix Theatre (London) featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast. 1 October Fourteen miners are killed in an explosion in a coal pit near Cannock, Staffordshire.Miners die in pit explosion https://www.expressandstar.com/millennium/1900/1925-1949/1930.html Express & Star Wolverhampton 2012-08-13 End of Weihaiwei under British rule as it is returned to China. 5 October – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden overseas voyage killing 48 of the 54 on board. 6–10 October – annual Labour Party Conference (at Llandudno), the first chaired by a woman, Susan Lawrence, M.P.The Labour Party Conference The Times London 6 October 1930 11 45636 Oswald Mosley unsuccessfully attempts to persuade it to adopt the 'Mosley Memorandum' on tackling unemployment. 20 October – the "Passfield white paper" demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine. 12 November – first Round Table Conference on the future status of India opens in London.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 372–373 978-0-7126-5616-0 25 November – Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.Wainwright M. Swan H. T. C. G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical records of penicillin therapy Medical History 30 1 42–56 1986 3511336 1139580 10.1017/S0025727300045026 December – Youth Hostels Association opens its first hostel, at Pennant Hall near Llanrwst in North Wales.Coburn Oliver Youth Hostel Story 1950 National Council of Social Service London 20 December – R v Betts and Ridley: a landmark case in English criminal law which establishes that it is not necessary for an accessory actually to be present when an offence is carried out in order to be convicted of a crime.http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4179652.ece The cases that changed Britain: 1917–1954 The Times 23 June 2008 31 March 2009 London Gary Slapper 7 January 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090107140556/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4179652.ece dead 24 December – inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds in London. Undated 1930–1935 – unemployment averages more than 18% in Britain. Start of local authorities' assisted wiring scheme to encourage people to connect their homes to the public electricity supply.John Biscoe History of public supply in the UK Engineering Timelines http://www.engineering-timelines.com/how/electricity/electricity_07.asp 2010-10-12 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101201194910/http://www.engineering-timelines.com/how/electricity/electricity_07.asp 2010-12-01 Rosemary Bank is discovered approximately 75 miles west of Scotland by the survey vessel HMS Rosemary. New offices for Crawford's Advertising Agency at 233 High Holborn, London, designed by Frederick Etchells with Herbert A. Welch, are Britain's earliest significant example of the International Style in architecture.John Betjeman John Betjeman A Pictorial History of English Architecture Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1974 0-14-00-3824-8 100 https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory0000betj_x5m7/page/100 Philco produces the first of its "Baby grand" designs of radio of which it will sell two million.Mahon Morgan E. A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950 Antiques Electronics Supply 1990 116 Publications Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage. An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton. T. S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday. W. Somerset Maugham's novel Cakes and Ale. J. B. Priestley's novel Angel Pavement. Arthur Ransome's children's novel Swallows and Amazons. Dorothy L. Sayers' novels Strong Poison and The Documents in the Case (only the former featuring Lord Peter Wimsey). W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman's parodic history book 1066 and All That. Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies. Births 135px|thumb|Lionel Blue 135px|thumb|Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon 135px|thumb|Shirley Williams 135px|thumb|Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon 135px|thumb|Ronnie Corbett 4 January – Iain Cuthbertson, actor (died 2009)https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/sep/11/iain-cuthbertson-obituary Iain Cuthbertson - Scottish actor - Obituary Gavin Gaughan 11 September 2009 The Guardian 26 January 2018 9 January – Ray Horrocks, businessman (died 2011) 12 January – Bruce Lansbury, British-American television producer and screenwriter (died 2017)https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bruce-lansbury-dead-tv-producer-angela-lansburys-brother-was-87-976535/ Obituary: Bruce Lansbury 15 February 2017 hollywoodreporter.com 22 July 2023 17 January – Monica Furlong, author and journalist (died 2003) 20 January Richard Coleman, actor (died 2008) Christopher Elrington, historian (died 2009) 29 January – John Junkin, actor and screenwriter (died 2006)https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/mar/08/broadcasting.obituaries John Junkin 8 March 2006 Dennis Barker The Guardian 23 July 2023 1 February – Peter Tapsell, politician, Father of the House (died 2018)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/19/sir-peter-tapsell-obituary Sir Peter Tapsell obituary The Guardian 20 August 2018 2 February – Bernard Hunt, golfer (died 2013) 3 February – Gillian Ayres, painter and printmaker (died 2018) 6 February – Lionel Blue, reform rabbi (died 2016)Bates Stephen Rabbi Lionel Blue obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/rabbi-lionel-blue-obituary The Guardian 19 December 2016 19 December 2016 11 February – Mary Quant, fashion designer (died 2023)Horwell Veronica 2023-04-13 Dame Mary Quant obituary en-GB The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/apr/13/dame-mary-quant-obituary 2023-04-14 0261-3077 13 February – Ronald Stretton, track cyclist (died 2012) 16 February Peter Adamson, actor (died 2002) John Cairney, actor (died 2023)John Cairney obituary 17 February – Ruth Rendell, crime fiction writer (died 2015)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11579110/Ruth-Rendell-crime-writer-obituary.html Ruth Rendell, crime writer - obituary 2 May 2015 23 March 2018 www.telegraph.co.uk 20 February Ken Jones, actor (died 2014) Richard Lynn, English psychologist and author (died 2023) 24 February – Norman Bleehen, British oncologist (died 2008)Debrett's Distinguished People of Today Patricia Ellis David Williamson 1989 Debrett's Peerage Limited 1870520025 25 February – Wendy Beckett, contemplative nun and art historian (died 2018)https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/26/sister-wendy-beckett-obituary Sister Wendy Beckett 26 December 2018 Peter Stanford The Guardian 23 July 2023 27 February – John Straffen, serial killer (died 2007) 28 February – Diane Holland, actress (died 2009) 2 March – Pat Arrowsmith, peace campaigner (died 2023) 7 March Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and filmmaker (died 2017)18 May 2023 13 January 2013 Stephen Bates theguardian.com Lord Snowdon obituary https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/13/lord-snowdon-obituary Daphne Osborne, botanist (died 2006)Anon. Daphne Osborne. The Times (27 July 2006)September 2024 medicmedic(accessed 7 January 2009) 8 March – Douglas Hurd, politicianMark Stuart Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant: An Authorised Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=OmVnAAAAMAAJ 1998 Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited 978-1-84018-125-8 9 11 March – David Gentleman, English artist and illustrator 12 March – Antony Acland, diplomat (died 2021) 13 March – Vera Selby, snooker and billiards player (died 2023) 19 March – Ernest Hall, businessman (died 2024)Sir Ernest Hall obituary 23 March – Alexander Walker, film critic (died 2003) 24 March – Maude Storey, nurse (died 2003) 30 March Nick Browne-Wilkinson, judge (died 2018) Rolf Harris, Australian-born British cartoonist, singer, television presenter and sex offender (died 2023) 2 April – Roddy Maude-Roxby, actor 5 April – John Harris, politician (died 2001) 7 April – Jane Priestman, designer (died 2021) 8 April – Dorothy Tutin, actress (died 2001) 9 April – Ian Walters, sculptor (died 2006) 11 April Clive Exton, screenwriter (died 2007) Ronald Fraser, comedy actor (died 1997) 12 April – Bryan Magee, philosopher and politician (died 2019) 16 April – Alan Truscott, Anglo-American bridge player (died 2005) 17 April – Chris Barber, jazz trombonist and bandleader (died 2021) 20 April – Antony Jay, writer, television scriptwriter, broadcaster and director (died 2016) 21 April – Alec Bregonzi, actor (died 2006) 23 April – Michael Bowen, Gibraltarian-English archbishop (died 2019) 1 May – Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, judge (died 1997) 3 May – David Harrison, chemist and academic (died 2023) 4 May Bill Eyden, jazz drummer (died 2004) Ron Pickering, athletics coach and commentator (died 1991) 7 May – John Smith, Baron Kirkhill, politician (died 2023) 8 May – Heather Harper, Northern Irish operatic soprano (died 2019) 9 May – Joan Sims, actress (died 2001) 11 May – Tony Church, actor (died 2008) 22 May – Kenny Ball, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (died 2013) 28 May – Julian Slade, musical theatre composer (died 2006) 1 June John Lemmon, logician and philosopher (died 1966) Edward Woodward, actor and singer (died 2009)Woodward found fame playing tough-guy roles https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/woodward-found-fame-playing-tough-guy-roles-1821587.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/woodward-found-fame-playing-tough-guy-roles-1821587.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 25 February 2021 en 23 October 2011 4 June Edward Kelsey, actor (died 2019) Bill Treacher, actor (died 2022)Bill Treacher: EastEnders star dies aged 92 John Wall, judge (died 2008) 5 June – Peter Landin, computer scientist (died 2009) 6 June – Frank Tyson, cricketer (died 2015) 7 June – Michael Baughen, bishop and hymn-writer 8 June Michael Codron, theatre producer and manager Julian Haviland, journalist (died 2023) 11 June Roy Fisher, poet and jazz pianist (died 2017) Duncan Kyle, novelist (died 2000) 15 June – John Fretwell, English soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (died 2017) 21 June – Gerald Kaufman, politician, Father of the House (died 2017) 22 June – Patricia Nielsen, swimmer (died 1985) 23 June John Elliot, historian (died 2022) Anthony Thwaite, poet and critic (died 2021) 24 June – William Gaskill, theatre director (died 2016) 29 June – Frank Johnston, Anglican priest, military chaplain (died 2023) 1 July – Ron Hughes, footballer (died 2019) 7 July – Hamish MacInnes, Scottish mountaineer, mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor (died 2020)Birthdays The Guardian London 31 7 July 2014 8 July – John Little, Scottish football defender (died 2017) 11 July – Julia Trevelyan Oman, stage designer (died 2003) 12 July – Paul Briscoe, diarist and schoolteacher (died 2010) 13 July – Richard D. Lewis, polyglot cross-cultural communication consultant and author 17 July Ray Galton, comedy scriptwriter (died 2018) Brian Statham, cricketer (died 2000) 18 July Burt Kwouk, film actor (died 2016) Ted Paige, physicist (died 2004) 20 July – Sally Ann Howes, singer and actress (died 2021)McFadden Robert D. Sally Ann Howes, Star of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' Dies at 91 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/movies/sally-ann-howes-dead.html The New York Times 22 December 2021 22 December 2021 22 July Jill Adams, actress and model (died 2008) Jeremy Lloyd, actor and screenwriter (died 2014) 24 July – Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, banker (died 2002) 26 July – Barbara Jefford, stage actress (died 2020) 27 July Bomber Wells, cricketer (died 2008) Shirley Williams, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party (died 2021) 8 August – Barry Unsworth, novelist (died 2012) 13 August – Bernard Manning, comedian (died 2007) 14 August – Liz Fraser, actress (died 2018) 15 August – Stephen Tumim, judge and prison inspector (died 2003) 17 August – Ted Hughes, poet laureate (died 1998)Terry Gifford Ted Hughes https://books.google.com/books?id=IgR_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT21 13 January 2009 Routledge 978-1-134-38433-4 21 20 August – Michael Green, theologian (died 2019) 21 August – Princess Margaret Rose, later Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002) 24 August – Ian Nairn, journalist and writer (died 1983) 25 August Sean Connery, Scottish actor (died 2020) Crispin Tickell, diplomat, environmentalist and academic (died 2022) 28 August – Windsor Davies, actor (died 2019) 16 September – John Jympson, film editor (died 2003) 20 September – Michael Kidron, cartographer (died 2003) 21 September Dawn Addams, actress (died 1985) Bob Stokoe, footballer and football manager (died 2004) 24 September – Bernard Nevill, textile designer (died 2019)Prof Bernard Nevill http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/n/7200/Bernard+Richard.aspx https://archive.today/20131204134600/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/n/7200/Bernard+Richard.aspx dead 4 December 2013 Debrett's Debrett's Ltd 2013-12-04 26 September – Joe Brown, climber (died 2020) 29 September – Colin Dexter, detective fiction writer (died 2017)St James Press Contemporary Popular Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=2MkUAQAAIAAJ 1997 St. James Press 978-1-55862-216-6 117 4 October – William Summers, jeweller (died 2002) 5 October – David Mellor, designer, manufacturer and retailer (died 2009) 10 October – Harold Pinter, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)William Baker Harold Pinter https://books.google.com/books?id=Rou2ffOSHr8C&pg=PA2 8 November 2008 A&C Black 978-0-8264-9971-4 2 11 October – Ronnie Simpson, footballer (died 2004) 15 October Colin McDonald, footballer (died 2026) Anne Mueller, civil servant (died 2000) 18 October Trevor Bell, artist (died 2017) David Tomblin, film director (died 2005) 19 October Denys Jones, footballer (died 2003) Mavis Nicholson, writer and broadcaster (died 2022)Mavis Nicholson obituary 2022-09-11 The Guardian https://web.archive.org/web/20230522010253/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/11/mavis-nicholson-obituary 2023-05-22 live https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/11/mavis-nicholson-obituary 20 October – R. J. Hollingdale, biographer (died 2001) 24 October – Elaine Feinstein, poet, novelist and literary biographer (died 2019) 27 October – Leo Baxendale, comic artist (died 2017) 28 October – Bernie Ecclestone, auto racing tycoon 30 October – Stanley Sadie, musicologist (died 2005) 3 November – John Biffen, politician (died 2007) 11 November – Vernon Handley, orchestral conductor (died 2008) 14 November Shirley Crabtree, "Big Daddy", professional wrestler (died 1997) Elisabeth Frink, sculptor (died 1993) Michael Robbins, actor (died 1992) 15 November – J. G. Ballard, China-born fiction writer (died 2009)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jg-ballard-writer-whose-dystopian-visions-helped-shape-our-view-of-the-modern-world-1671634.html 1 May 2022 subscription live J.G. Ballard: Writer whose dystopian visions helped shape our view of the modern world John Clute 21 April 2009 The Independent 8 June 2020 21 November – Judith Pierce, operatic soprano (died 2003)Steven Alasdair 24 October 2003 Judith Pierce, soprano https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/judith-pierce-2469258 21 August 2026 The Scotsman 22 November Peter Hall, theatre director (died 2017) Peter Hurford, organist (died 2019) 29 November Shirley Porter, politician (died 2026) Dennis Weatherstone, banker and businessman (died 2008) 1 December Ken Box, track and field sprinter (died 2022) Matt Monro, singer (died 1985) 4 December – Ronnie Corbett, comic performer (died 2016) 5 December – Jeremy Sandford, television screenwriter (died 2003) 8 December Julian Critchley, journalist and politician (died 2000) Stan Richards, actor (died 2005) 10 December – Michael Jopling, farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 11 December – David Plowright, television producer (died 2006) 12 December – Gwyneth Dunwoody, politician (died 2008) 26 December – Donald Moffat, actor (died 2018) 27 December – Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer (died 2011) 28 December – Gladys Ambrose, actress (died 1998) 30 December – Roy Calne, surgeon, pioneer of transplantation (died 2024) Deaths 135px|thumb|D. H. Lawrence 135px|thumb|Arthur Conan Doyle 19 January – Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician, died of jaundice (born 1903) 21 January – Hugh Longbourne Callendar, physicist (born 1863) 22 January – Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, politician and courtier (born 1852) 27 February – Joseph Wright, philologist and lexicographer (born 1855) 28 February – Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence, classical scholar, South African judge and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge (b. 1854)Cambridge University Library Report of the Library Syndicate https://books.google.com/books?id=pnPpAAAAMAAJ 1905 13 2 March – D. H. Lawrence, writer, died of complications from tuberculosis in France (born 1885) 19 March – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848) 24 March – Henry Faulds, Scottish-born medical missionary, pioneer in the forensic study of fingerprints (born 1843) 10 April – Alfred Williams, "hammerman poet" (born 1877) 21 April – Robert Bridges, poet laureate (born 1844) 1 May – Richard Bell, Labour politician (died 1859) 25 May – Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1848) 13 June – Sir Henry Segrave, land and water speed record holder, killed in speedboat accident on Windermere (born 1896) 7 July – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish-born fiction writer (born 1859) 12 August – Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, general (born 1858) 21 August – Sir Aston Webb, architect (born 1849) 22 August – Christopher Wood, painter, suicide (born 1901) 24 August – Tom Norman, showman (born 1860) 28 August – Bobby Walker, Scottish footballer (born 1879) 29 August – William Archibald Spooner, scholar, Anglican priest and metathesist (born 1844) 6 September – Sir James Guthrie, Scottish painter (born 1859) 4 November – Evelyn Colyer, tennis player (born 1902) 27 November – Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (born 1873) 17 December – Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), composer, probable suicide (born 1894) 22 December – Neil Munro, Scottish humorist, fiction writer and critic (born 1863) See also List of British films of 1930 References 1930 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1930 by country Category:1930s in the United Kingdom Category:1930 in Europe