1925 in the United Kingdom

1925 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, Conservative

Events

* 1 May - Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 365-366|isbn= 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.
* 2 October - Introduction of London's first double decker buses.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 30 October - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
* 3 December - Settlement of last remaining border disputes between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
* 10 December - Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact. [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1925/ The Nobel Peace Prize 1925] ]
* 16 December - Construction of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey begins. [cite web|url=http://www.merseytravel.net/information_tunnel_history.html|title=Merseytravel|accessdate=2008-04-07]

Undated

* Work begins on the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
* First BBC shortwave transmissions are broadcast from Daventry's Borough Hill.

Publications

* G. K. Chesterton's book "The Everlasting Man".
* Agatha Christie's novel "The Secret of Chimneys".
* T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Those Barren Leaves".
* Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway".

Births

* 7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (died 1995)
* 17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (died 2003)
* 21 March - Peter Brook, film director
* 23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer
* 2 April - George MacDonald Fraser, author (died 2008)
* 22 April - George Cole, actor
* 3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (died 2001)
* 28 July - John Stonehouse, government minister noted for faking his own death (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" (died 1975)
* 27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer
* 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
* 16 October - Angela Lansbury, actress
* 17 October - Harry Carpenter, boxing commentator
* 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
** Ernie Wise, comedian (died 1999)

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)

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