Английская Википедия:1932 in the United Kingdom

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in United Kingdom Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (Coalition)
• Parliament – 36th

Events

• 1 January — the English Folk Dance and Song Society holds its first festival under this name following merger of the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.
• 8 January — the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees.
• 24 January — inmates at Dartmoor Prison mutiny.
• 26 January — British submarine Шаблон:HMS sinks off the Dorset coast with all sixty hands.
• 1-29 February — with an average precipitation of Шаблон:Convert, this period constitutes the driest calendar month over the United Kingdom as a whole since records began in 1836.
• 4-15 February — Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.

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Broadcasting House

• 1 March — Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs.
• 15 March — first BBC radio broadcast from the new Broadcasting House in London; all programmes transfer from 15 May.
• 6 April – Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.
• 13 April — mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a wilful trespass by ramblers at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, to protest against lack of free public access to open country.
• 23 April — new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon; designed by Elisabeth Scott, it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.
• 1 May — protestors clash with police in Hyde Park, London, during a May day protest against Japan's attitude towards China when they try to march on the Japanese Embassy.
• 10 May — James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
• 26 May — the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
• 4 July — George Carwardine patents the Anglepoise lamp.
• 12 July — Hedley Verity of Yorkshire establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
• 19 July — King George V opens the replacement Lambeth Bridge across the Thames in London.
• 30 July-14 August — Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
• 1 August — Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory.
• 22 August — first experimental television broadcast by the BBC.
• 20 September — Methodist Union: the Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church.
• 26 September — first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
• October
  • Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
  • Anglo-Irish Trade War begins.
• 3 October — The Times newspaper first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.
• 7 October — Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
• 10 October — a mine cage accident at Bickershaw Colliery in the Lancashire Coalfield drowns 19.
• 13 October — Britain grants independence to Iraq in exchange for a restrictive long-term military alliance.
• 27 October — arrival of the Hunger March in London leads to several violent clashes with police.
• 14 November — book tokens go on sale in the UK.
• 30 November — the BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar.
• 2 December — English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: opening of the “bodyline” series.
• 5 December — the comic strip character Jane first appears in the Daily Mirror.
• 10 December
  • John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".
  • Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".
• 19 December — the BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station.
• 25 December — King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message on the BBC Empire Service from Sandringham House; the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling.

Undated

• Opening of the Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, Middlesex, a noted example of Art Deco architecture, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners for The Hoover Company.
• Production of Fordson tractors in the U.K. begins at Dagenham in Essex.
• Production of Weetabix breakfast cereal in the U.K. begins at Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire.

Publications

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House.
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first in A Scots Quair trilogy.
• Stella Gibbons' parodic novel Cold Comfort Farm.
• J. B. S. Haldane's book The Causes of Evolution, unifying Mendelian genetics and evolutionary science.
• Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World.
• Captain W. E. Johns' first Biggles aviation stories, collected as The Camels are Coming.
• F. R. Leavis' book New Bearings in English Poetry.
• Q. D. Leavis' book Fiction and the Reading Public.
• John Cowper Powys' novel A Glastonbury Romance.
• Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.
• First issue of the journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review edited by F. R. Leavis (published in May).
• First issue of the magazine Woman's Own.

Births

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Elizabeth Taylor

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Nigel Lawson

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Phyllida Law

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Arnold Wesker

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V. S. Naipaul

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W. Morgan Sheppard

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Richard Dawson

• 2 January – Peter Redgrove, poet (died 2003)
• 4 January – Thelma Holt, actress and producer
• 12 January – Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television presenter (died 2020)
• 14 January – Timothy Sprigge, philosopher (died 2007)
• 15 January – Louis George Alexander, teacher and author (died 2002)
• 19 January – Russ Hamilton, singer (died 2008)
• 23 January – George Allen, footballer (died 2016)
• 29 January – Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958)
• 30 January – Lady Mary Colman, socialite and philanthropist (died 2021)
• 1 February – John Nott, Conservative politician
• 3 February – Molly Parkin, painter, novelist and journalist
• 8 February
  • Cliff Allison, racing driver (died 2005)
  • Elspeth Howe, public servant (died 2022)
  • Jean Saunders, romantic novelist (died 2011)
• 11 February – Dennis Skinner, politician
• 12 February – Richard Rougier, judge (died 2007)
• 13 February
  • David Neal, actor (died 2000)
  • Barbara Shelley, actress (died 2021)
• 14 February – Peter Ball, bishop and sex offender (died 2019)
• 15 February – Adrian Swire, English businessman (died 2018)
• 22 February – Roger Squires, crossword compiler (died 2023)
• 25 February – Tony Brooks, racing driver (died 2022)
• 27 February – Elizabeth Taylor, film actress (died 2011 in the United States)
• 28 February – Brian Moore, football commentator (died 2001)
• 11 March – Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 2023)
• 21 March – Tom Watson, actor (died 2001)
• 25 March – Martin Brandon-Bravo, politician (died 2018)
• 27 March – Patrick Newell, actor (died 1988)
• 1 April – Avril Elgar, actress (died 2021)
• 9 April – Jack Smethurst, actor (died 2022)
• 10 April – Adrian Henri, Liverpool poet (died 2000)
• 14 April – Bob Grant, actor, comedian and writer (died 2003)
• 15 April – John T. Lewis, Welsh physicist (died 2004)
• 25 April
  • David Frederick Case, audiobook narrator (died 2005)
  • William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
• 26 April – Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000 in Canada)
• 4 May – Ivor Wood, television animator (died 2004)
• 7 May – Jenny Joseph, poet (died 2018)
• 9 May
  • Gavin Lyall, novelist (died 2003)
  • Geraldine McEwan, actress (died 2015)
• 12 May – Derek Malcolm, historian and film critic (died 2023)
• 19 May – Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
• 24 May – Arnold Wesker, dramatist (died 2016)
• 25 May – Norman Drew, Northern Irish golfer (died 2023)
• 29 May – Walker H. Land, academic bioengineering researcher
• 30 May
  • Ray Cooney, farceur
  • Ivor Richard, Welsh Labour politician (died 2018)
• 8 June – Ray Illingworth, cricketer (died 2021)
• 9 June – Denise Robertson, broadcaster and writer (died 2016)
• 18 June – Geoffrey Hill, poet (died 2016)
• 21 June – Bernard Ingham, journalist and government press secretary (died 2023)
• 22 June
  • Prunella Scales, actress
  • John Wakeham, businessman and Conservative Party politician
• 25 June
  • Peter Blake, pop artist
  • Charles Morrison, politician (died 2005)
  • Tim Parnell, racing driver (died 2017)
• 26 June – John Wall, inventor (died 2018)
• 27 June
  • Alan Warren, Anglican priest and author (died 2020)
  • Hugh Wood, composer (died 2021)
• 4 July – Matt Crowe, Scottish football (soccer) player (died 2017)
• 6 July – Phyllida Law, actress
• 8 July
  • Roy Proverbs, football (soccer) player (died 2017)
  • Brian Walden, politician and political interviewer (died 2019)
• 10 July – George Black, Royal Air Force officer
• 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016)
• 17 July – Colin Webster, Welsh footballer (died 2001)
• 21 July – Vilma Hollingbery, actress (died 2021)
• 23 July
  • Hugh Davies, Welsh cricketer (died 2017)
  • Tony Dean, racing driver (died 2008)
• 26 July – Neil McCarthy, actor (died 1985)
• 28 July – Russell Johnston, politician (died 2008)
• 6 August
  • Michael Deeley, film producer
  • Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker (died 2017)
• 9 August – Reginald Bosanquet, television news presenter (died 1984)
• 11 August – Eric Varley, politician (died 2008)
• 17 August – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-born writer (died 2018)
• 20 August – Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
• 23 August – Christopher Parsons, film-maker (died 2002)
• 24 August
  • Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster (died 2017)
  • W. Morgan Sheppard, actor (died 2019)
• 27 August – Lady Antonia Fraser, writer
• 31 August – Roy Castle, entertainer (died 1994)
• 1 September – Raymond Durgnat, film critic (died 2002)
• 4 September – Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
• 7 September – Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000)
• 9 September – Alice Thomas Ellis, writer (died 2005)
• 11 September
  • Peter Anderson, footballer (died 2009)
  • Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006)
• 22 September – Michael Barnes, politician (died 2018)
• 27 September – Michael Colvin, Conservative politician (died 2000)
• 4 October – Edward Judd, actor (died 2009)
• 5 October – Michael John Rogers, ornithologist (died 2006)
• 8 October – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
• 9 October – Colin Clark, film-maker (died 2002)
• 10 October – Harry Smith, footballer
• 15 October – Vince Karalius, English rugby league footballer and coach (died 2008)
• 24 October – Adrian Mitchell, poet and novelist (died 2008)
• 25 October – Maurice Dodd, cartoonist (died 2005)
• 6 November – Ron Saunders, footballer and manager (died 2019)
• 4 November – Joyce Blair, actress (died 2006)
• 11 November – John Zamet, periodontist (died 2007)
• 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress and songwriter
• 18 November – Trevor Baxter, actor and playwright (died 2017)
• 20 November – Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)
• 21 November – Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (died 2010)
• 30 November – Arthur Hopcraft, scriptwriter (died 2004)
• 15 December – John Meurig Thomas, scientist (died 2020)
• 16 December – Quentin Blake, cartoonist and illustrator
• 18 December – Marian Wenzel, art historian (died 2002)
• 19 December
  • Angela Flowers, gallerist (died 2023)
  • Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician (died 2001)
• 24 December – Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000)
• 28 December – Roy Hattersley, Labour politician

Deaths

• 8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887)
• 13 January – Ernest Mangnall, football manager (born 1866)
• 21 January – Lytton Strachey, writer and biographer (born 1880)
• 24 January – Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1842)
• 10 February – Edgar Wallace, novelist and screenwriter (born 1875)
• 4 March – Fawcet Wray, admiral (born 1873)
• 11 March – Dora Carrington, painter (born 1893)
• 16 March – Harold Monro, poet and bookshop proprietor (born 1879)
• 26 April – William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868)
• 13 June – Alexander Bethell, admiral (born 1855)
• 6 July – Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859)
• 16 July – Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, general (born 1857)
• 22 July – J. Meade Falkner, novelist and poet (born 1858)
• 23 July – Tenby Davies, Welsh sprinter (born 1884)
• 19 August – E. S. Prior, Arts and Crafts architect and theorist (born 1852)
• 16 September – Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857)
• 1 October – W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (born 1854)
• 30 October – Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen, field marshal (born 1845)
• 12 November – Sir Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer (born 1854)
• 13 November – Catherine Isabella Dodd, education writer and novelist (born 1860)
• 8 December – Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer, writer and artist (born 1843)

See also

• List of British films of 1932