1925 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

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

[edit] Events

• 1 May - Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 30 October - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.^[2]
• 3 December - Settlement of last remaining border disputes between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.^[1]
• 10 December - Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact.^[3]
• 16 December - Construction of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey begins.^[4]

[edit] Undated

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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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