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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 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] with a large majority of 209 seats. The
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 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
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
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)
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