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1924 in the United Kingdom

December 15, 2023

Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom.

1924 in the United Kingdom
Other years
1922 | 1923 | 1924 (1924) | 1925 | 1926
Constituent countries of the United Kingdom
Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Popular culture

Incumbents edit

Events edit

 
First UK Commemorative stamps

Undated edit

Publications edit

Births edit

Deaths edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Fact sheet No. 8 – The Shipping Forecast" (PDF). National Meteorological Library and Archive. 2007. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. ^ a b Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.
  4. ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 364–365. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. ^ . British TV History. Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  6. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 495–497. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  7. ^ Knight, Donald R.; Sabey, Alan D. (1984). The Lion Roars at Wembley. New Barnet: D. R. Knight. ISBN 0-9509251-0-1.
  8. ^ Hillier, Bevis (2014). The Virgin's Baby: The Battle of the Ampthill Succession. London: Hopcyn Press. ISBN 978-0957297708.
  9. ^ Riddell, Jonathan; Tomkinson, Nicolette (2011). This Is Your Way Sir. Harrow: Capital Transport. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-85414-343-3.
  10. ^ The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 391. ISBN 1-85585-178-4.
  11. ^ "At The Southport Flower Show To-day". Liverpool Echo. 27 August 1924. p. 7.
  12. ^ . 10. HM Government. Archived from the original on 5 July 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  13. ^ "Aeroplane Crash at Purley". The Times. No. 43844. London. 27 December 1924. p. 10 col. E.
  14. ^ Doyle, Peter (2010). ARP and Civil Defence in the Second World War. Oxford: Shire Publications. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7478-0765-0.
  15. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  16. ^ Farrar, Michael (2007). . British Naturism. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  17. ^ Farrar, Michael (2007). . British Naturism. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
  18. ^ a b Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

December 15, 2023
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Events from the year 1924 in the United Kingdom 1924 in the United KingdomOther years1922 1923 1924 1924 1925 1926Constituent countries of the United KingdomNorthern Ireland Scotland WalesPopular culture1924 English cricket seasonFootball England Scotland1924 in British radio Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2 1 Undated 3 Publications 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 ReferencesIncumbents editMonarch George V Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Conservative until 16 January Ramsay MacDonald Labour starting 22 January until 4 November Stanley Baldwin Conservative starting 4 November Parliament 33rd starting 8 January until 9 October 34th starting 2 December Events edit1 January Meteorological Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast at this time called Weather Shipping 1 10 January British submarine HMS L24 sinks in a collision in the English Channel 43 dead 15 January the world s first radio play Danger by Richard Hughes is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London 22 January Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister leading a minority government This follows Stanley Baldwin s resignation after his government loses a vote of no confidence in the debate on the King s Speech 2 23 January Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to be appointed a government minister 3 25 January 4 February Great Britain and Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix France and win 1 gold 1 silver and 2 bronze medals February Baldwin establishes the Conservative Consultative Committee the first organised Shadow Cabinet 4 John Logie Baird working in Hastings sends rudimentary television pictures over a short distance 5 1 February the United Kingdom recognises the Soviet Union 6 5 February hourly Greenwich Time Signal from Royal Greenwich Observatory is broadcast for the first time 2 18 February commissioning of HMS Hermes 95 the Royal Navy s first purpose designed aircraft carrier 28 March first BBC broadcast from Plymouth station 5PY nbsp First UK Commemorative stamps23 April first broadcast by King George V opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium 7 26 April Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his death ray in London but fails to convince the War Office Footwear retailer Charles Clinkard opens the doors to its first shop in Middlesbrough 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 decided on appeal to the House of Lords which rules there is no admissible evidence of adultery against dress designer 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 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 This purports to be a directive from 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 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 becomes the first newspaper to publish a crossword 2 22 November Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster erected 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 leading to the first UK public inquiry into a civil aviation accident Undated edit Air Raid Precautions committee set up 14 The Scottish county of Linlithgowshire is officially renamed West Lothian The London and North Eastern Railway officially names its Flying Scotsman express train although the service between London King s Cross and Edinburgh over the East Coast Main Line has previously been known by this title and has operated since 1862 4 Edward Victor Appleton investigates the Heaviside layer 15 Frigidaire becomes the first make of refrigerator marketed in the UK 3 First nudist camp established at Wickford Essex 16 17 Bedgebury National Pinetum established in Kent Publications editMichael Arlen s novel The Green Hat 18 Agatha Christie s novel The Man in the Brown Suit E M Forster s novel A Passage to India Margaret Kennedy s novel The Constant Nymph A A Milne s poem collection When We Were Very Young Mary Webb s novel Precious Bane P C Wren s novel Beau Geste 18 Births edit1 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 Walter Hayes journalist died 2000 F N Souza Indian born artist died 2002 13 April Mary Spiller horticulturist and teacher died 2019 14 April Robert Stewart textile designer died 1995 Philip Stone actor died 2003 Mary Warnock moral philosopher died 2019 15 April Rikki Fulton actor and comedian died 2004 Neville Marriner conductor and violinist died 2016 20 April Leslie Phillips comic actor died 2022 Jack Slipper detective died 2005 22 April Peter Cathcart Wason psychologist died 2003 23 April Norman Painting actor died 2009 24 April Clement Freud writer radio personality and politician died 2009 Clive King writer died 2018 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 Antony Hewish radioastronomer recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics died 2021 Jackie Milburn footballer died 1988 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 Edward du Cann Conservative politician died 2017 Reginald Eyre politician died 2019 1 June John Tooley opera administrator died 2020 2 June Peter Halliday actor died 2012 Timothy Moxon actor died 2006 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 Tony Britton actor died 2019 Donald J West psychiatrist and parapsychologist died 2020 17 June Edward Downes orchestral conductor died 2009 Archibald Hall Scottish murderer died 2002 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 Gwen Moffat climber and writer Michael Barrington actor died 1988 4 July Eric Cockeram politician died 2021 Roy Gibson Director General of ESRO 6 July Brian Stanbridge air force officer died 2003 Jon Wynne Tyson publisher writer and animal rights campaigner died 2020 7 July Gordon Bagier politician died 2012 Jean Valentine codebreaker died 2019 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 Eve Branson philanthropist and child welfare advocate died 2021 Irene Sutcliffe actress died 2019 14 July James W Black Scottish born pharmacologist recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine died 2010 15 July Peter Armitage statistician specialising in medical statistics David Cox statistician died 2022 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 Garard Green actor died 2004 Mary Holt politician and judge died 2021 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 Kenneth Kendall newsreader and presenter died 2012 Helen Taylor Thompson social activist died 2020 10 August Nancy Buckingham romance novelist 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 Alyn Ainsworth musician singer and conductor died 1990 Jimmy Gardner actor died 2010 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 Edmund Ironside 2nd Baron Ironside hereditary peer naval officer and businessman died 2020 David Sylvester art critic died 2001 22 September Charles Keeping illustrator died 1988 Rosamunde Pilcher nee Scott novelist died 2019 23 September Vivien Alcock children s writer died 2003 24 September Lady Mary Whitley noblewoman died 1999 30 September David Snow ornithologist died 2009 Peter Yarranton rugby union player died 2003 7 October John Hanscomb politician died 2019 8 October John Nelder statistician died 2010 17 October David Butler academic psephologist died 2022 24 October Christine Glanville puppeteer died 1999 Ullin Place philosopher and psychiatrist died 2000 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 William Russell actor Margaret Turner Warwick physician and thoracic specialist died 2017 21 November Christopher Tolkien son and editor of the works of J R R Tolkien died 2020 29 November Margaret Gelling toponymist died 2009 Arthur Peacocke theologian and biochemist died 2006 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 edit2 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 Andrew Irvine mountaineer born 1902 George Mallory mountaineer born 1886 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 editList of British films of 1924References edit Fact sheet No 8 The Shipping Forecast PDF National Meteorological Library and Archive 2007 p 3 Retrieved 10 November 2010 a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 2006 ISBN 0 14 102715 0 a b Robertson Patrick 1974 The Shell Book of Firsts London Ebury Press ISBN 0 7181 1279 2 a b c Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History London Century Ltd pp 364 365 ISBN 0 7126 5616 2 Landmark Dates British TV History Archived from the original on 1 November 2010 Retrieved 12 October 2010 a b Williams Hywel 2005 Cassell s Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld amp Nicolson pp 495 497 ISBN 0 304 35730 8 Knight Donald R Sabey Alan D 1984 The Lion Roars at Wembley New Barnet D R Knight ISBN 0 9509251 0 1 Hillier Bevis 2014 The Virgin s Baby The Battle of the Ampthill Succession London Hopcyn Press ISBN 978 0957297708 Riddell Jonathan Tomkinson Nicolette 2011 This Is Your Way Sir Harrow Capital Transport p 20 ISBN 978 1 85414 343 3 The History Today Companion to British History London Collins amp Brown 1995 p 391 ISBN 1 85585 178 4 At The Southport Flower Show To day Liverpool Echo 27 August 1924 p 7 Harold Macmillan 10 HM Government Archived from the original on 5 July 2011 Retrieved 16 November 2011 Aeroplane Crash at Purley The Times No 43844 London 27 December 1924 p 10 col E Doyle Peter 2010 ARP and Civil Defence in the Second World War Oxford Shire Publications p 6 ISBN 978 0 7478 0765 0 The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 ISBN 1 85986 000 1 Farrar Michael 2007 The history of naturism a timeline British Naturism Archived from the original on 19 October 2010 Retrieved 3 September 2010 Farrar Michael 2007 The Moonella Group British Naturism Archived from the original on 5 December 2008 Retrieved 1 February 2008 a b Leavis Q D 1965 Fiction and the Reading Public rev ed London Chatto amp Windus Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1924 in the United Kingdom amp oldid 1185269126, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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