1934 in the United Kingdom

none thumb | right | The cover page of the Anglo-German Payments Agreement (1934) between Nazi Germany and the United Kingdom. August 2022 January 2013 1934 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales Popular culture 1934 English cricket season Football: England Scotland 1934 in British radio 1934 in British television 1934 in British music Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (Coalition) Events 1 January – Establishment of the National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.https://books.google.com/books?id=qps14mSlghcC&q=ronald+kidd+scaffardi&pg=PA373 Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organisations 9780826458148 2010-09-15 Barberis Peter McHugh John Tyldesley Mike January 2000 A&C Black 21 January – Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 378–379 0-7126-5616-2 16 February – A Commission of Government for the Dominion of Newfoundland is sworn in as a form of return to direct colonial rule by the UK forced by the island's economic collapse.http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/collapse_responsible_gov.html Collapse of Responsible Government, 1929–1934 Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador 2011-02-05 2014-12-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20141220171415/http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/collapse_responsible_gov.html live 27 March – The Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed. Part 1 (betting) is designed to restrict betting on racecourses and tracks to a maximum of 104 days.http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1934/58/pdfs/ukpga_19340058_en.pdf?timeline=true&view=extent Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 Legislation.gov.uk Part 2 (lotteries) prohibits the sale of lottery tickets, primarily directed against the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake.http://www.ria.ie/Publications/Journals/PRIA-Section-C/Buy-online/PRIA-Section-C-Volume-105-5--MARIE-COLEMAN--%E2%80%98A-ter.aspx "A terrible danger to the morals of the country": The Irish hospitals' sweepstake in Great Britain, 1930–87 Marie Coleman Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C 105 5 2005 2010-07-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20110615122746/http://www.ria.ie/Publications/Journals/PRIA-Section-C/Buy-online/PRIA-Section-C-Volume-105-5--MARIE-COLEMAN--%E2%80%98A-ter.aspx 15 June 2011 dead April – Meccano Ltd introduce the first Dinky Toys. 3 April – Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.Challoner, Jack 1001 Inventions That Changed the World London Cassell 2009 978-1-84403-611-0 634–5 6 April – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. 21 April The "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail.David Martin Alastair Boyd 1999 Nessie – the Surgeon's Photograph Exposed East Barnet authors 0-9535708-0-0 David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.David Low http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/davidlow/biography https://web.archive.org/web/20090522000741/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/artists/davidlow/biography dead 22 May 2009 British Cartoon Archive 2012-06-29 May – The London Zoo penguin pool, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group with Ove Arup, one of the most significant examples of modern architecture in Britain, is opened.http://www.designmuseum.org/design/berthold-lubetkin Berthold Lubetkin Design Museum 2008-03-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20080325093119/http://www.designmuseum.org/design/berthold-lubetkin 25 March 2008 dead 4 May – 54-year-old grandmother Mrs G. E. Alington becomes the first woman in Britain to complete a parachute jump, skydiving from 1500 feet over Brooklands Aerodrome. 28 May – Opening of the first Glyndebourne Festival Opera season. 29 May – First regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.Richard Blake The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985 Caterham Marden 29 12 July – Petroleum (Production) Act vests ownership of all U.K. subterranean oil and natural gas in the Crown. 18 July – Opening of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey by King George V.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 19 July – 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program. 4–11 August – British Empire Games held at Wembley Park, London.1934 - London https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/5274/1934-london www.insidethegames.biz 16 October 2022 30 August 2009 6 September – The BBC's most powerful long-wave transmitter, Droitwich Transmitting Station, starts transmitting regularly at 200 kilohertz, following test transmissions from 8 May.http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscences/Droitwich/droitwich_calling.htm Droitwich Calling John Phillips December 2006 2015-12-03 10 September – The British Graham Land Expedition sets out to explore Graham Land in Antarctica. 22 September – Gresford disaster: a gas explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales, which leads to the death of 266 miners and rescuers, one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history. 26 September – Launch of the liner Queen Mary at Clydebank. 29 September – Stanley Matthews makes his debut for the England national football team, beginning a record 23-year international career. 29 November – Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, the first this century, and last, foreign-born princess to marry into the British royal family; the wedding is the first to be broadcast live on radio. 30 November – London and North Eastern Railway steam locomotive Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 km/h) on test in England.No. 4472 Flying Scotsman http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/industrial/flying%20scotsman.htm The Heritage Trail 2014-11-30 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150621104329/http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/industrial/flying%20scotsman.htm 21 June 2015 10 December – Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1934/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1934 2007-02-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20070127010435/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1934/ 27 January 2007 live 21 December – Special Areas Act provides grants from central government funds to assist regions with high unemployment.The History Today Companion to British History https://archive.org/details/historytodaycomp0000unse registration London Collins & Brown 1995 1-85585-178-4 709 Undated The "British Committee for Relations with Other Countries", which will become the British Council, is set up to foster cultural relations.http://www.britishcouncil.org/history-when-1930s-1940s.htm 1930s and 1940s British Council 2011-02-17 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110415071747/http://www.britishcouncil.org/history-when-1930s-1940s.htm 15 April 2011 Aero Pictorial, a British aerial photography company is founded. EKCO introduces its distinctive round bakelite radio cabinets. Publications John Betjeman's guidebook Cornwall, first of the Shell Guides. Agatha Christie's novels Murder on the Orient Express (featuring Hercule Poirot) and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?. Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius. A. P. Herbert's satirical novel Holy Deadlock. James Hilton's novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips. George Orwell's memoir Burmese Days. J. B. Priestley's travelogue English Journey.Marr Andrew Andrew Marr A History of Modern Britain 2008 xxii Macmillan 978-0-330-43983-1 https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernb0000marr/page/ Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel The Nine Tailors. Dylan Thomas' first collection 18 Poems, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower". P. L. Travers' first children's story Mary Poppins. Geoffrey Trease's children's story Bows against the Barons. Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust. P. G. Wodehouse's Thank You, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves, the first Jeeves stories written as full-length novels. V. M. Yeates' war novel Winged Victory. Births 3 January – Bryan Kelly, musician (died 2026) 6 January – Sylvia Syms, actress (died 2023) 8 January – Roy Kinnear, actor (died 1988) 11 January – Tony Hoare, computer scientist (died 2026) 12 January – Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer (died 2016) 14 January Richard Briers, actor (died 2013) Priscilla Morgan, actress 18 January – Raymond Briggs, writer and illustrator (died 2022)Raymond Briggs obituary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/10/raymond-briggs-obituary the Guardian 11 August 2022 en 10 August 2022 19 January – Ron Newman, British-born American soccer player and manager (died 2018) 20 January – Tom Baker, actor 22 January – Graham Kerr, TV cook 25 January – George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry, peer (died 2002) 29 January – Noel Harrison, singer, actor and Olympic skier (died 2013) 2 February – Hugh McIlvanney, sports journalist (died 2019) 6 February – Roger Becker, tennis player (died 2017) 11 February – John Surtees, racing driver and motorcyclist (died 2017) 12 February – Anthony Howard, journalist (died 2010) 17 February – Alan Bates, actor (died 2003) 18 February – Geraldine Newman, actress 19 February – David Jones, film director (died 2008) 21 February – Michael Grylls, politician (died 2001) 24 February – Ray Honeyford, head teacher (died 2012)https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9069943/Ray-Honeyford.html Ray Honeyford 8 February 2012 25 February Bernard Bresslaw, actor (died 1993) Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, politician (died 2018) 28 February – Ronnie Moran, football captain (Liverpool F.C.) (died 2017) 4 March – John Dunn, radio presenter (died 2004) 5 March – Nicholas Smith, actor (died 2015) 6 March – John Noakes, children's television presenter (died 2017) 7 March – Zena Walker, actress (died 2003) 8 March Gawaine Baillie, race car driver and industrialist (died 2003) John McLeod, Scottish composer (died 2022)Scotsman Obituaries: John McLeod CBE, Scottish composer and conductor https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scotsman-obituaries-john-mcleod-cbe-scottish-composer-and-conductor-3652223 The Scotsman 20 May 2022 en 11 March – Dilys Laye, actress and screenwriter (died 2009) 15 March – Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist 16 March – Roger Norrington, conductor (died 2025) 20 March – Eric Hebborn, art forger (died 1996) 22 March – Larry Martyn, comic actor (died 1994) 26 March Richard Harris, scriptwriter Norman Reynolds, production designer and film director (died 2023) 28 March – Laurie Taitt, Olympic sprint hurdler (died 2006) 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, baritone (died 2001) 1 April – Marie Patterson, English trade union leader (died 2021) 2 April – Brian Glover, actor and wrestler (died 1997) 3 April – Jane Goodall, primatologist (died 2025) 6 April – Brian Cosgrove, animator 7 April Ian Richardson, actor (died 2007) Roger Webb, jazz musician (died 2002) 8 April – Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue, politician and academic 11 April – Ron Pember, actor and dramatist (died 2022) 16 April Vince Hill, singer (died 2023) Michael Jackson, British-born American radio broadcaster (died 2022) Richard Kershaw, journalist (died 2014) Geoffrey Owen, journalist, academic and businessman 3 May – Henry Cooper, boxer (died 2011) 5 May – Jim Reid, folk musician (died 2009) 8 May – David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton, English soldier and politician (died 2015) 9 May Alan Bennett, playwright, screenwriter, actor and author David Plastow, English businessman (died 2019) Peter Ramsden, rugby league player (died 2002) 14 May – Alasdair Macintosh Geddes, infectious diseases expert (died 2024) 15 May John Keegan, military historian (died 2012) George Roper, comedian (died 2003) 16 May Victor Emery, physicist (died 2002) Nicholas Goodison (died 2021) 24 May Barry Rose, choir director and organist Margaret Tebbit, nurse (died 2020) 26 May Jeffrey Alan Gray, psychologist (died 2004) Mike Rawson, track and field athlete (died 2000) 29 May – Nanette Newman, actress 5 June – Bryon Butler, sports journalist (died 2001) 6 June – Joanne Cole, artist (died 1985) 11 June – Lady Annabel Goldsmith, socialite (died 2025) 12 June – John Townend, politician (died 2018) 15 June – Eileen Atkins, actress 19 June Terence Clark, soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Iraq Brian London, boxer (died 2021)Boxer Brian London who fought Muhammad Ali for world title dies 20 June Brian Barder, diplomat (died 2017) Keith Hopkins, historian and sociologist (died 2004) 21 June Maggie Jones, actress (died 2009) Ken Matthews, race walker (died 2019) 23 June – Keith Sutton, bishop (died 2017) 24 June Rodney Peppé, author and illustrator (died 2022) Peter Stoddart, English cricketer (died 2019) 26 June – Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist and spy (died 1965) 30 June – Richard Jolly, development economist 1 July Paddy Jones, salsa dancer Jean Marsh, actress (died 2025) Ian Robinson, publisher (died 2004) 2 July – Tom Springfield, songwriter and record producer (died 2022)Fifth Seeker and songwriter dead at 88 4 July – James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, British nobleman, peer and politician 5 July – Philip Madoc, actor (died 2012) 7 July Robert McNeill Alexander, zoologist (died 2016) Richard Taylor, medical doctor, politician and Royal Air Force officer (died 2024) 8 July – Marty Feldman, writer, comedian and actor (died 1982) 9 July – John Clegg, Indian-born English actor (died 2024) 11 July – Helen Cresswell, writer (died 2005) 13 July – Gordon Lee, football player and manager (died 2022)EVERTON DEEPLY SADDENED TO LEARN OF GORDON LEE PASSING 14 July – John Tyndall, politician (died 2005) 15 July – Harrison Birtwistle, composer (died 2022) 21 July – Jonathan Miller, polymath theatre director (died 2019) 23 July – Tony Lee, jazz pianist (died 2004) 26 July – Anthony Gilbert, composer (died 2023) 27 July – John Pardoe, politician and businessman 28 July Pat Douthwaite, artist (died 2002) Ron Flowers, footballer (died 2021)Ron Flowers obituary 2021-11-12 The Guardian https://web.archive.org/web/20230619223108/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/12/ron-flowers-obituary 2023-06-19 live https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/12/ron-flowers-obituary 31 July – Julia Bodmer, geneticist (died 2001) 6 August Chris Bonington, mountaineer Billy Boston, rugby league player (died 2026) 8 August – Keith Barron, actor (died 2017) 13 August – Ken Friar, football executive (died 2026) 14 August - Trevor Bannister, actor (died 2011) 16 August Angela Buxton, tennis player (died 2020) Diana Wynne Jones, English writer (died 2011)Diana Wynne Jones British writer Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diana-Wynne-Jones Encyclopædia Britannica 10 January 2022 en 18 August Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer (died 2015) Michael de Larrabeiti, writer (died 2008) 19 August – Ronald Jones, track and field athlete (died 2021) 20 August – Tom Mangold, journalist and author 2 September – Allen Carr, writer and anti-smoking campaigner (died 2006) 4 September Tony Book, football player and manager (died 2025) Clive Granger, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009) 5 September – Russell Harty, television presenter (died 1988) 8 September – Peter Maxwell Davies, composer (died 2016) 11 September Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor (died 2012) Kallistos Ware, Eastern Orthodox theologian and bishop (died 2022)Kallistos Ware: Theologian Who Explained the Orthodox Way to Other Christians Cedric Price, architect and writer (died 2003) 17 September – Robin Ray, broadcaster (died 1998) 19 September Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles (died 1967) Austin Mitchell, politician (died 2021) 20 September – David Marquand, academic and politician (died 2024) 21 September – David J. Thouless, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019) 24 September Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer (died 2018) Robert Lang, English stage, television actor (died 2004) 26 September – Dick Heckstall-Smith, jazz saxophonist (died 2004) 30 September Alan A'Court, English footballer (died 2009) Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress (died 2015) 1 October – Geoff Stephens, songwriter and record producer (died 2020) 3 October – Tom Hustler, photographer (died 2006) 14 October – Rose Wylie, painter 17 October – Alan Garner, young adult fiction writer 20 October Maureen Cleave, journalist (died 2021)Maureen Cleave obituary 2021-11-09 The Guardian https://web.archive.org/web/20230717174900/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/09/maureen-cleave-obituary 2023-07-17 live https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/09/maureen-cleave-obituary Timothy West, actor (died 2024) 24 October – Wally Herbert, explorer (died 2007) 27 October David and Frederick Barclay, businessmen (David died 2021) Peter Donaldson, economist (died 2002) 14 November – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer (died 2015) 19 November – David Lloyd-Jones, conductor (died 2022) 22 November – Nicolas Walter, anarchist writer (died 2000) 25 November – John Drummond, arts administrator (died 2006) 28 November – Ted Walker, poet, travel writer and broadcaster (died 2004) 1 December – Jane Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, peer 3 December – Bob Cryer, politician (died 1994) 9 December – Judi Dench, actress 16 December – Jim Parker, composer (died 2023) 17 December – Ray Wilson, footballer (died 2018) 18 December – John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (disappeared 1974) 27 December – Pat Moss, racing driver (died 2008) 28 December Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (died 2019) Maggie Smith, English actress (died 2024)Maggie Smith: A glorious antidote to the self-absorption of so many in her profession https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/maggie-smith-oscar-favourite-is-a-glorious-antidote-to-the-self-absorption-of-so-many-in-her-a6734096.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/maggie-smith-oscar-favourite-is-a-glorious-antidote-to-the-self-absorption-of-so-many-in-her-a6734096.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 1 October 2020 en 13 November 2015 31 December – George Christie, opera manager (died 2014) Deaths 6 January – Herbert Chapman, football manager (born 1878) 23 January Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, politician and jurist (born 1850) Sir William Hardy, biologist and food scientist (born 1864) 23 February – Sir Edward Elgar, composer (born 1857) 10 March – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, comic novelist 'F. Anstey' (born 1856) 25 March – Edmund Selous, ornithologist and writer (born 1857) 11 April – John Collier, writer and Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1850) 25 May – Gustav Holst, composer (born 1874) 10 June – Frederick Delius, composer (born 1862) 10 September – Sir George Henschel, musician (born 1850) 27 September – Ellen Willmott, horticulturalist (born 1858) 3 November – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, builder (born 1847) 16 November – Alice Hargreaves, née Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852) 25 November – N. E. Brown, English plant taxonomist (born 1849) See also List of British films of 1934 References 1934 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom United KIngdom Category:1930s in the United Kingdom Category:1934 in Europe