1925 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

• 29 May - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
• 30 October - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
• Work begins on the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
• First BBC shortwave transmissions are broadcast from Daventry's Borough Hill.
• Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact. ^[1]

[edit] Births

• 7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)
• 17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (d. 2003)
• 21 March - Peter Brook, film director
• 23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer
• 22 April - George Cole, actor
• 3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
• 30 July - Alexander Trocchi, writer (d. 1984)
• 12 August - Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
• 12 August - Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
• 27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer
• 8 September - Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (d. 1980)
• 23 September - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
• 13 October - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 31 October - John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 27 November - John Maddox, science writer

[edit] Deaths

• 3 February - Oliver Heaviside, mathematician (b. 1850)
• 6 February - James Kenyon, businessman and cinema pioneer (b. 1850)
• 24 February - Joseph Rowntree, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1836)
• 20 March - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (b. 1859)
• 28 March - Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, general (b. 1864)
• 4 April - W. W. Rouse Ball, mathematician and lawyer (b. 1850)
• 6 April - Alexandra Kitchin, model for Lewis Carroll (b. 1864)
• 14 May - H. Rider Haggard, writer (b. 1856)
• 22 May - John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, World War I field marshal (b. 1852)
• 20 November - Alexandra of Denmark, queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
• 18 December - Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)

[edit] References

1. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1925