1927 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1927
Events from the year 1927 in the United Kingdom
This year saw the renaming of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recognising in name the Irish Free State 's independence, it having come into existence with the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922.
Incumbents
Events
1 January – the British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation , when it is granted a Royal Charter. John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
7 January – first transatlantic telephone call from New York City to London.
15 January – first live sports broadcast on the BBC. The rugby union international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam . A week later the first football match is broadcast.
19 January – Britain sends troops to China.
28–30 January – gale-force winds batter the British Isles, with a gust of 90 kn (100 mph; 170 km/h) recorded in Paisley (Scotland) and 23 killed.[ 1]
4 February – at Pendine Sands , Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a new world land speed record covering the Flying Kilometre in a mean average of 174.883 mph (281.44 km/h) and the Flying Mile in 174.224 m.p.h. driving the Napier-Campbell Blue Bird , the last time this record will be attained on British soil.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
12 February – first British troops land in Shanghai.
14 February – Alfred Hitchcock 's silent film thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
19 February – general strike in Shanghai in protest at the presence of British troops.
1 March – an underground gas and coal dust explosion at Marine Colliery, Cwm, Monmouthshire , kills 52.
6 March – 1000 people a week die from an influenza epidemic.
29 March – Henry Segrave breaks the land speed record driving the Sunbeam 1000 hp at Daytona Beach, Florida.[ 5]
5 April – Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.
12 April – the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The change acknowledges that the Irish Free State is no longer part of the Kingdom.
21 April – National Museum of Wales officially opened in Cathays Park , Cardiff .
23 April – Cardiff City F.C. , members of the English Football League despite being based in Wales, win the FA Cup beating Arsenal 1–0 at Wembley Stadium and taking the trophy out of England for the first time.
23 April – publication of first edition of The Countryman magazine, still being issued 90 years later.
1 May – Dioceses of Guildford and of Portsmouth created in the Church of England .
7 May – Newcastle United finish the football season as First Division champions.[ 6] George Camsell , centre-forward of their local rivals Middlesbrough , scores a Football League record of 59 goals this season and a total of 63 in all competitions.[ 7]
9 May – Joe Davis wins the first World Snooker Championship final held in Birmingham ,[ 4]
12 May – British police raid the London office of the Soviet trading company ARCOS .
13 May – George V proclaims the change of his style from King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to King of Great Britain and Ireland.
20 May – Treaty of Jeddah : Saudi Arabia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
24 May – Britain severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union because of revelations of espionage and underground agitation .
9 June – Soviet Union executes twenty British for alleged espionage.
23 June – England and Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes becomes the first person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
29 June – Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927 : totality is visible across Northern England and Wales (though weather conditions are poor for viewing).
7 July
7 September – the Television Society is founded. It will gain Royal patronage in 1966, becoming the Royal Television Society .
5 October – the Labour Party votes in favour of nationalisation of the coal industry.[ 4]
7 October – Mercedes Gleitze becomes the first British woman to swim the English Channel .[ 8]
28 October – Cleggan Bay Disaster : A severe windstorm batters the British Isles, with coastal flooding in the Irish Sea along Cardigan Bay and 5 fatalities in Fleetwood , Lancashire.[ 9]
5 November – Britain's first automatic traffic lights are deployed experimentally in Wolverhampton .[ 4]
17 November – Leyland Titan double deck bus introduced. Its low chassis sets a significant trend in bus design which lasts for forty years.[ 10]
December – Joshua Powell of Clacton begins the domestic radio relay service which will become Rediffusion .[ 11]
17 December - Joyce Augusta Collinson is born. She marries Douglas Farmery in March 1948
21 December ("Slippery Wednesday") – 1,600 people are hospitalised in the London area when they hurt themselves on icy streets.[ 12] [ 13]
25 December – a Christmas Day blizzard affects Cardiff and much of South Wales together with the Midlands and London area.
Undated
Publications
Births
8 January – Charles Tomlinson , poet and academic (died 2015)
12 January
13 January – Sydney Brenner , South African-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2019)
14 January – John Mallard , medical physicist (died 2021)
20 January – Bill Le Sage , jazz pianist (died 2001)
28 January – Ronnie Scott , jazz saxophonist and club owner (died 1996)
31 January – Arnold Ziff , businessman and philanthropist (died 2004)
7 February – John Buller , composer (died 2004)
9 February – David Wheeler , computer scientist (died 2004)
10 February – Nigel Bagnall , army general (died 2002)
11 February – Robert Squires , admiral (died 2016)
15 February – Frank Dunlop , theatre director
16 February – June Brown , actress (died 2022)[ 17]
18 February – Peter Fryer , English journalist and author (died 2006)
21 February – Anne Sunnucks , English author and chess player (died 2014)
25 February – David Oates , English archaeologist (died 2004)
1 March – George Davies , English footballer
3 March – Nicolas Freeling , novelist (died 2003)
5 March – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford , politician and aristocrat (died 2023)[ 18]
9 March – Julian Tudor-Hart , physician, writer and political campaigner (died 2018)
10 March – H. Douglas Keith , physicist (died 2003)
11 March – Ron Todd , trade union leader (died 2005)
12 March – Francis Wilford-Smith , cartoonist (died 2009)
15 March – Brian Shenton , track and field sprinter (died 1987)
17 March – Patrick Allen , actor (died 2006)
26 March
29 March – John Vane , pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2004)
30 March – Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster , English civil servant (died 2020)
1 April – Peter Cundall , English-Australian soldier, horticulturist and author (died 2021)
2 April – Kenneth Tynan , theatre critic (died 1980)
6 April – John Brooke-Little , herald (died 2006)
8 April – Tilly Armstrong (alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander ), British writer (died 2010)
9 April – Clive Lythgoe , pianist (died 2006)
15 April – Colin Bean , actor (died 2009)
16 April
18 April – Sidney Cooke , English serial killer and paedophile
25 April – Dickie Dale , English motorcycle road racer (died 1961)
26 April
27 April
2 May – Michael Broadbent , wine critic (died 2020)
4 May – Terry Scott , actor and comedian (died 1994)
5 May – Beverley Sisters Babs (d. 2018) and Teddie, close harmony singers
9 May – Keith Ross , surgeon (died 2003)
11 May – Bernard Fox , actor (died 2016)
21 May – Brian Manning , historian (died 2004)
25 May – Paul Oliver , architectural historian (died 2017)
27 May
31 May – Joe Robinson , actor and wrestler (died 2017)
2 June
4 June – Geoffrey Palmer , actor (died 2020)[ 21]
6 June – David Chipp , journalist (died 2008)
7 June – Ian McColl , footballer and football manager (died 2008)
8 June
11 June
12 June – Al Fairweather , jazz musician (died 1993)
13 June
15 June – R. A. C. Parker , historian (died 2001)
18 June – Paul Eddington , actor (died 1995)
23 June – John Habgood , Archbishop of York (died 2019)
25 June – Arnold Wolfendale , astronomer (died 2020)[ 22]
28 June – Correlli Barnett , military historian[ 23]
1 July – Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough
3 July
4 July – Derek Bond , English bishop (d. 2018 )
10 July – Don Revie , footballer and football manager (died 1989)
12 July – Harold Walker , politician (died 2003)
11 July – Chris Leonard , English footballer (died 1987)
15 July – Ted Slevin , professional rugby league footballer (died 1998)
16 July
26 July – Danny La Rue , Irish-born British drag entertainer (d. 2009 )
30 July – Tony Hiller , songwriter and record producer (died 2018)
31 July – Peter Nichols , playwright (died 2019)
1 August – Franklyn Perring , botanist (died 2003)
8 August – Basil Kirchin , drummer and composer (died 2005)
9 August
11 August – Raymond Leppard , conductor (died 2019)
19 August – Ivan Owen , voice actor (died 2000)
26 August – Duncan Inglis Cameron , university administrator (died 2006)
1 September – Maurice Stonefrost , civil servant (died 2008)
4 September – Richard Chorley , geographer (died 2002)
6 September – Jack Parker , hurdler (died 2022)
7 September
8 September – James Culliford , actor (died 2002)
10 September – Johnny Keating , Scottish musician (died 2015)
11 September – Vernon Corea , Sri Lankan-born broadcaster (died 2002)
18 September – Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden , British politician (died 2018)
21 September – Bill Speakman , soldier (died 2018)
22 September – Gordon Astall , footballer (died 2020)
25 September – Colin Davis , orchestral conductor (died 2013)
6 October – Antony Grey , born Anthony Wright, LGBT rights activist (died 2010)[ 24]
9 October – John Margetson , scholar and diplomat (died 2020)
11 October
14 October – Roger Moore , screen actor (died 2017)
20 October – Brian Nissen , actor (died 2001)
24 October – John Winston , actor (died 2019)
28 October – Cleo Laine , singer
31 October – Charles Cameron , Scottish magician (died 2001)
3 November – Tiny Wharton , Scottish football referee (died 2005)
5 November – Kenneth Waller , English actor (died 2000)
7 November – Ivor Emmanuel , actor (died 2007)
9 November – Ken Dodd , comedian and singer (died 2018)
12 November – David Butler , screenwriter (died 2008)
15 November – Gregor Mackenzie , Labour Party politician (died 1992)
16 November – Gerry Lowe , rugby player (d. 2018 )
17 November – Fenella Fielding , actress (died 2018)
23 November – Michael Coulson , lawyer and politician (died 2002)
24 November – Jonathan Routh , humorist (died 2008)
27 November – Eppie Gibson , rugby league player and coach (died 2018)
3 December – Richard Pankhurst , academic (died 2017)
7 December – Helen Watts , contralto (died 2009)
16 December - Joyce Augusta Collinson, Mom, Grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother
19 December – James Booth , actor (died 2005)
26 December
28 December – Simon Raven , novelist (died 2001)
Deaths
21 January – Sir Charles Warren , police officer and Biblical archeologist (born 1840)
24 February – Sir Edward Marshall Hall , defence barrister (born 1858)
25 January – Mark Judge , architect and engineer (born 1847)
28 February – Sir Luke Fildes , genre painter and illustrator (born 1843)
3 March – J. G. Parry-Thomas , Welsh automotive engineer and racing driver, killed in attempt on world land speed record (born 1884)
6 March – Marie Spartali Stillman , painter (born 1844)
12 March – Sam Mussabini , athletics coach (born 1867)
16 March – Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet , civil servant, writer and Unionist politician (born 1846)
18 March – Philip Wicksteed , theologian and critic (born 1844)
31 March – Mabel Collins , theosophist and author (born 1851)
10 April – Arthur Reid Lempriere , army officer (born 1835)
2 May – Ernest Starling , physiologist (born 1866)
3 May – Tom Gallaher , Irish tobacco manufacturer (born 1840)
6 May – Henry Lowry-Corry , army officer and politician (born 1845)
11 June – William Attewell , cricketer (born 1861)
14 June – Jerome K. Jerome , humorous writer (born 1859)
2 July – Frank Curzon , theatre manager (born 1868)
6 July – Harry Anstey , metallurgist and gold prospector (born 1847)
27 July – Solomon Joseph Solomon , portrait painter (born 1860)
31 July
3 August – Edward B. Titchener , psychologist (born 1867)
17 August – Sir Ernest Hatch , politician (born 1859)
9 September – Henry Ward , architect (born 1852)
8 October – Mary Webb , novelist (born 1881)
19 October – Beatrice Green , labour activist (born 1894)
See also
References
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