1925 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George V
- Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
Events
- 9 April - Administration of Estates Act abolishes the legal rule of primogeniture in England and Wales[1] and the remnants of gavelkind in Kent.
- May - Britain returns to the gold standard (the gold bullion standard rather than the specie standard).
- 1 May - Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.[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.[3]
- 1 to 30 June – The second-driest month in the EWP series (and driest of twentieth century) with an average of only 4.3 millimetres (0.17 in).[4]
- 27 July - The BBC'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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- 7 August - 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.[7]
- The city's first double-decker buses with covered top decks are introduced.[8][9]
- 2 November - Eigiau Dam disaster kills seventeen in the North Wales village of Dolgarrog.[10]
- 3 November - Alfred Hitchcock's first (silent) film, The Pleasure Garden, completed (but not released in the UK until 16 January 1927).
- 16 November - Carmaker Vauxhall Motors of Luton is purchased by American giant General Motors for $2.5 million.[11]
- 1 December - Locarno Treaties signed in London.
- 3 December - Settlement of last remaining border disputes between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.[2]
- 10 December - Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact.[12]
- 16 December - Construction of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey begins.[13]
Undated
- Construction of the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed begins.
- Clough Williams-Ellis begins construction of Portmeirion in North Wales.
- US newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst buys the medieval St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.[14]
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.[15]
- T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men.
- Aldous Huxley's novel Those Barren Leaves.
- Margaret Kennedy's novel The Constant Nymph.[15]
- Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Births
- 7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (at Jamshedpur, India) (died 1995)
- 17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (died 2003)
- 21 March - Peter Brook, theatre and film director
- 23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer (died in 2008)
- 25 March - Antony Quinton, philosopher (died 2010)
- 2 April - George MacDonald Fraser, author (died 2008)
- 3 April - Tony Benn, politician (died 2014)
- 12 April - Oliver Postgate, animator, puppeteer and writer (died 2008)
- 22 April - George Cole, actor (died 2015)
- 11 May - Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (died 2012)
- 3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (died 2001)
- 28 July - John Stonehouse, disgraced government minister (died 1988)
- 30 July - Alexander Trocchi, writer (died 1984)
- 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
- 27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer (died 2011)
- 8 September - Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (died 1980)
- 23 September - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (died 2006)
- 13 October - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2013)
- 16 October - Angela Lansbury, actress
- 17 October - Harry Carpenter, boxing commentator (died 2010)
- 31 October - John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 10 November - Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
- 11 November - June Whitfield, actress
- 27 November
- John Maddox, science writer (died 2009)
- Ernie Wise, comedian (died 1999)
- 23 December - Duncan Hallas, Trotskyist (died 2002)
Deaths
- 3 February - Oliver Heaviside, mathematician (born 1850)
- 6 February - James Kenyon, businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
- 24 February - Joseph Rowntree, Quaker and philanthropist (born 1836)
- 20 March - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (born 1859)
- 28 March - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (born 1864)
- 4 April - W. W. Rouse Ball, mathematician and lawyer (born 1850)
- 6 April - Alexandra Kitchin, model for Lewis Carroll (born 1864)
- 7 May - William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, soap-maker and philanthropist (born 1851)
- 14 May - H. Rider Haggard, writer (born 1856)
- 22 May - John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, World War I field marshal (born 1852)
- 20 November - Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1844)
- 18 December - Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (born 1850)
References
- ^ "Administration of Estates Act 1925 (c. 23)". Revised Statutes from The UK Statute Law Database. OPSI. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Wheels of Industry". Commercial Motor. 16 June 1925. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ Hadley Center Ranked EWP.
- ^ Tomalin, Norman (1998). Daventry Calling the World (PDF). Whitby: Caedmon. ISBN 0-905355-46-6. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ Philip, Alan Butt (1975). The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945-1970. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 0-7083-0537-7.
- ^ Burns, R. W. Television: An International History of the Formative Years. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers. p. 264. ISBN 9780852969144.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Buses". Exploring 20th century London. Museum of London. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ Jones, Eric; Gwyn, David (1989). "The Dam Disaster". Dolgarrog: an Industrial History. Caernarfon: Gwynedd Archives. pp. 113–25. ISBN 0-901337-50-1.
- ^ "Vauxhall's history in Luton". Where I Live - Beds, Herts & Bucks. BBC. August 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1925.
- ^ "Merseytravel". Retrieved 7 April 2008.[dead link]
- ^ McMurry, Enfys (1999). Hearst's Other Castle. Bridgend: Seren. ISBN 1-85411-228-7.
- ^ a b Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.