1924 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1924
Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
23 April – First broadcast by King George V , opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium .[ 7]
26 April
May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government on matters concerning the built environment.
4 May–27 July – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the Olympics in Paris and win 9 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze medals.
30 May – Russell case Christabel Russell , thus not a ground for divorce from her (now-separated) husband John Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill , so paving the way for legitimising their son , despite medical evidence of her being a virgin.[ 8]
3 June – Gleneagles Hotel opens in Scotland .[ 9]
8 June – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50 PM. The two mountaineers are never seen alive again.
7 July – Harold Abrahams wins 100m gold at the Paris Olympics in a time of 10.6 seconds.
11 July – Eric Liddell wins 400m gold at the Paris Olympics in a new world record time of 47.6 seconds.
7 August – Housing (Financial Provisions) Act provides government subsidy for the building of houses to rent, principally by local authorities.[ 10]
13 August – Campbell Case : The government forces charges of incitement to mutiny against communist newspaper editor J. R. Campbell to be dropped leading to its defeat in a vote of no confidence against the MacDonald ministry in the House of Commons.
27 August – The first Southport Flower Show opens.[ 11]
30 August – Britain accepts the Dawes Plan for receiving German war reparations .[ 4]
14 September – First BBC broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
24 October – The Foreign Office releases the Zinoviev Letter which is published in the following morning's Daily Mail Grigory Zinoviev , head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain .
25 October – Authorities of the British Raj in India arrest Subhas Chandra Bose and jail him for the next two and half years.
29 October – 1924 general election is won by the Conservative Party under Stanley Baldwin [ 6] Liberal Party loses around two-thirds of its seats and will never again be as strong as previously. Among the new members of parliament is 30-year-old future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , the new Conservative MP for Stockton-on-Tees (born in Chelsea to a British father and an American mother).[ 12]
2 November – The Sunday Express crossword .[ 2]
22 November – Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster erected.
15 December – The Scottish county of Linlithgowshire is officially renamed West Lothian (the Act comes into effect in 1925).
24 December – 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash : Imperial Airways biplane G-EBBX crashes at Purley shortly after takeoff from Croydon Airport , killing all eight people on board, the new line's first fatal accident,[ 13]
Undated
Publications
Births
1 January – John Warner , actor (died 2001)
3 January – Doug Ellis , entrepreneur and football club chairman (died 2018)
5 January – Eric Cheney , motorcycle designer (died 2001)
7 January – Geoffrey Bayldon , actor (died 2017)
8 January – Ron Moody , actor (died 2015)
12 January – Francis Coleman , orchestral conductor (born in Canada; died 2008)
13 January – Ivor Stanbrook , politician (died 2004)
19 January – Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon , peer and racing manager (died 2001)
21 January – Benny Hill , comedian and actor (died 1992)
22 January – Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood , English academic and politician (died 2019)
23 January – David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron , hereditary peer and motoring expert (died 2006)
27 January – Brian Rix , farceur and mental disability campaigner (died 2016)
5 February – Anthony Besch , opera and theatre director (died 2002)
9 February – George Guest , organist and choirmaster (died 2002)
14 February – Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma , peeress (died 2017)
24 February – Lionel Dakers , organist (died 2003)
29 February – Steve Llewellyn , rugby union player (died 2002)
2 March – William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon , politician (died 2018)
3 March – John Woodnutt , actor (died 2006)
5 March – Peter Lasko , German-born art historian (died 2003)
7 March – Eduardo Paolozzi , sculptor (died 2005)
8 March – Anthony Caro , sculptor (died 2013)
10 March – Angela Morley , composer and conductor, known as Wally Stott (died 2009)
12 March – Mary Lee Woods , mathematician and computer programmer (died 2017)
19 March – Mary Wimbush , actress (died 2005)
24 March – Henry Alfred Symonds , soldier (died 1994)
28 March – Freddie Bartholomew , actor (died 1992)
30 March – Alan Davidson , food writer (died 2003)
2 April – Denis Rooke , industrialist and engineer (died 2008)
3 April – Peter Hawkins , actor, voice artist (died 2006)
8 April – Anthony Farrar-Hockley , army general and military historian (died 2006)
12 April
13 April – Mary Spiller , horticulturist and teacher (died 2019)
14 April
15 April
20 April
22 April – Peter Cathcart Wason , psychologist (died 2003)
23 April – Norman Painting , actor (died 2009)
24 April
1 May – Dennis Main Wilson , broadcast comedy producer (died 1997)
3 May – Ken Tyrrell , racing driver (died 2001)
7 May – James Learmonth Gowans , immunologist (died 2020)
10 May – Edward Thomas Hall , scientist (died 2001)
11 May
12 May – Tony Hancock , comedian (died 1968)
14 May – Kenneth V. Jones , composer, conductor and music teacher (died 2020)
17 May – Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs , industrialist and politician (died 2020)
19 May – Sandy Wilson , composer (died 2014)
20 May – Peter Shore , politician (died 2001)
23 May – Michael McCrum , academic (died 2005)
24 May – Vincent Cronin , historical writer and biographer (died 2011)
25 May – Gordon Smith , footballer (died 2004)
28 May
1 June – John Tooley , opera administrator (died 2020)
2 June
3 June – Ken Armstrong , English association football player (died 1984)
5 June – Rodney Diak , actor (died 2007)
6 June – John Ambler , businessman (died 2008)
8 June – Iain Glidewell , lawyer and judge (died 2016)
9 June
17 June
18 June – Thomas Kerr , aerospace engineer (died 2004)
21 June – Wally Fawkes , English-born Canadian jazz clarinetist and cartoonist (died 2023)
24 June – Anthony Barrowclough , lawyer and government ombudsman (died 2003)
27 June – Bob Appleyard , cricketer (died 2015)
28 June – Roy Austen-Smith , Royal Air Force officer (died 2021)
2 July – Francis Wyndham , English author, literary editor and journalist (died 2017)
3 July
4 July
6 July
7 July
8 July – Peter Lovell-Davis , publisher and politician (died 2001)
10 July – Philip Ward , major-general (died 2003)
11 July – Charlie Tully , footballer (died 1971)
12 July
14 July – James W. Black , Scottish-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2010)
15 July
24 July – Vivean Gray , British-born Australian television and film actress (died 2016)
24 July – Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby , peer and Army officer (died 2018)
29 July – Arnold Weinstock , businessman (died 2002)
31 July
1 August – John Clive Ward , English-born physicist, "father of the British H-bomb" (died 2000)
4 August – Antony Rowe , rower (died 2003)
6 August – Winifred Watkins , biochemist (died 2003)
7 August
10 August – Nancy Buckingham , romance novelist (died 2022)
12 August – Derek Shackleton , cricketer (died 2007)
15 August – Robert Bolt , playwright and screenwriter (died 1995)
20 August – John Ellis Williams , writer (died 2008)
21 August – Gerald David Lascelles , nobleman and cousin of Queen Elizabeth II (died 1998)
24 August
26 August – John Peake , English field hockey player (died 2022)
30 August – Peter Parker , businessman and railway executive (died 2002)
31 August – George Sewell , actor (died 2007)
3 September – Bob Coats , economic historian (died 2007)
4 September – Joan Aiken , writer (died 2004)
10 September – Elizabeth Killick , naval electronics engineer (died 2019)
14 September – Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree , politician (died 2009)
21 September
22 September
23 September – Vivien Alcock , children's writer (died 2003)
24 September – Lady Mary Whitley , noblewoman (died 1999)
30 September
7 October – John Hanscomb , politician (died 2019)
8 October – John Nelder , statistician (died 2010)
17 October – David Butler , academic psephologist (died 2022)
24 October
30 October – Norman Bird , actor (died 2005)
5 November – John Bowen , playwright and novelist (died 2019)
6 November – William Auld , poet and esperantist (died 2006)
9 November – John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne , peer and television producer (died 2005)
18 November – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart , Scottish judge (died 2000)
19 November
20 November - Timothy Evans , lorry driver (died 1950)
21 November – Christopher Tolkien , son and editor of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien (died 2020)
29 November
4 December – Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey , public servant and writer (died 2017)
5 December – John Keston , actor, singer and masters athlete (died 2022)
30 December – Peter Harding , rock climber (died 2007)
Deaths
2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould , hymnodist, folklorist and novelist (born 1834)
15 February – Lionel Monckton , musical comedy composer (born 1861)
22 March – Sir William Macewen , Scottish surgeon (born 1848)
27 March – Sir Walter Parratt , composer (born 1841)
29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford , composer (born 1852)
21 April – Marie Corelli , novelist (born 1855)
4 May – E. Nesbit , children's novelist and Fabian socialist (born 1858)
8/9 June – lost on Everest
23 June – Cecil Sharp , folk-song collector (born 1859)
13 July – Alfred Marshall , economist (born 1842)
14 July – Isabella Ford , socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (born 1855)
3 August – Joseph Conrad , novelist (born 1857 in Poland)
15 August – Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys , courtier, Private Secretary to King Edward VII (born 1837)
22 August – James Acton , cricketer (born 1848)
27 August – Sir William Bayliss , physiologist (born 1860)
18 September – F. H. Bradley , philosopher (born 1846)
17 October – Hector C. Macpherson , Scottish writer and journalist (born 1851)
18 October – Sir Percy Scott , admiral (born 1853)
29 October – Frances Hodgson Burnett , English-born American children's novelist (born 1849)
10 November – Sir Archibald Geikie , geologist (born 1835)
12 November – E. D. Morel , journalist and politician (born 1873 in France)
20 November – Ebenezer Cobb Morley , sportsman, "father" of the Football Association (born 1831)
24 November – Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort , aristocrat (born 1847)
26 November – Sir William Acland, 2nd Baronet , admiral (born 1847)
31 December – Sir Samuel Knaggs , colonial administrator (born 1856)
See also
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