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UK-related events during the year of 1929
Events from the year
1929 in the
United Kingdom . This year sees the start of the
Great Depression .
Incumbents
Events
23 January – The
Lancashire Cotton Corporation is set up by the
Bank of England to rescue the
Lancashire
cotton milling (
spinning ) industry by means of
horizontal integration .
18 March – An underground fire at Coombs Wood colliery near
Halesowen kills 8 miners, the last major disaster in the
Black Country coalfield.
[1]
30 March –
Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between
London and
Karachi .
[2]
22 April –
Chat Moss airport opens in
Manchester , Britain's first municipal
airport .
[3]
10 May
14 May – The
North East Coast Exhibition opens, and would run for six months.
[5]
31 May – The
general election returns a
hung parliament , with
Labour as the largest party.
Liberals will determine who has power. Amongst the Conservative casualties is future
Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan , the 35-year-old
MP for
Stockton-on-Tees , who first entered parliament five years earlier.
[6] This is the first UK general election in which women have an equal franchise with men and they form a majority of the electorate.
7 June – The
Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for a fragile majority.
8 June –
Ramsay MacDonald forms a new Labour government.
[3]
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female member of the
Cabinet when she is named
Minister of Labour .
17 June –
Alfred Hitchcock 's
Blackmail shown for the first time in
London , the first British
sound film .
[2]
1 July –
C. P. Scott retires after 57 and a half years as editor of
The Manchester Guardian and is succeeded by his son,
Ted Scott .
5 July –
Scotland Yard seizes thirteen paintings of male and female nudes by
D. H. Lawrence from a
Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the
Vagrancy Act 1838 .
[7]
11 July –
Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills nine boys and six men as a firefighting demonstration goes catastrophically wrong in
Kent .
4 August –
Bekonscot opens to the public in Buckinghamshire, the world's oldest original
miniature park .
20 August – First transmissions of
John Logie Baird 's experimental 30-line television system by the
BBC .
[8]
2 October – The union between the
Church of Scotland and the
United Free Church of Scotland takes place.
28 October – Sharp fall on the
London Stock Exchange , following a similar crash on
Wall Street on 24 October.
[3]
1 November
10 November – Première of
John Grierson 's
documentary film
Drifters about
North Sea
herring
fishermen , made for the
Empire Marketing Board , effectively inaugurating the British
Documentary Film Movement . (It debuts at the private Film Society in London on a double-bill with the UK première of
Eisenstein 's
The Battleship Potemkin .)
[9]
1 December –
Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its new headquarters building at
55 Broadway designed by
Charles Holden and incorporating sculptures by
Jacob Epstein ,
Eric Gill and
Henry Moore .
[10]
10 December
15 December –
Beatification of the
One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales by
Pope Pius XI .
31 December –
Glen Cinema disaster in
Paisley ,
Scotland : 69 children die trying to escape smoke.
[13]
Undated
Publications
Births
10 January –
Tony Soper , naturalist, author and broadcaster
[16]
12 January –
Alasdair MacIntyre , Scottish philosopher
15 January –
Ronnie Allen , footballer (died 2001)
21 January –
John Hayes , art historian (died 2005)
23 January –
George Ffitch , journalist and broadcaster (died 2001)
28 January –
Acker Bilk , jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014)
30 January –
Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long , politician (died 2017)
31 January –
Jean Simmons , actress (died 2010)
[17]
4 February –
Mary Coombs , computer programmer (died 2022)
[18]
6 February –
Keith Waterhouse , novelist and journalist (died 2009)
8 February –
Roger Byrne , footballer (died 1958)
15 February –
Graham Hill , racing driver (died 1975)
17 February
18 February –
Len Deighton , thriller writer
21 February –
James Beck , actor (died 1973)
5 March –
David Sheppard , cricketer and Bishop of Liverpool (died 2005)
13 March
23 March – Sir
Roger Bannister , middle-distance runner (died 2018)
[19]
24 March –
Francis Essex , television producer (died 2009)
1 April –
Barbara Bryne , actress (died 2023)
5 April
10 April –
Mike Hawthorn , racing driver (died 1959)
11 April –
John Brownjohn , literary translator (died 2020)
14 April
17 April
18 April –
Peter Jeffrey , actor (died 1999)
21 April –
Barbara Keogh , actress (died 2005)
22 April
29 April –
Jeremy Thorpe , Liberal leader (died 2014)
4 May –
Audrey Hepburn , Belgian-born actress (died 1993)
[21]
6 May –
Rosemary Cramp , archaeologist (died 2023)
[22]
9 May –
Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick , lawyer and judge
10 May –
Thomas McGhee , footballer (died 2018)
12 May –
Don Gibson , footballer
14 May –
Henry McGee , actor (died 2006)
15 May –
Andrew Bertie , Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (died 2008)
18 May
19 May
21 May –
Robert Welch , designer (died 2000)
23 May –
Peter Wells , athlete (died 2018)
26 May –
John Jackson , lawyer and businessman
[23]
29 May –
Peter Higgs , theoretical physicist, winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics
[24] (died 2024)
1 June –
Giles Constable , historian (died 2021)
5 June –
Denis Coe , soldier, educator and politician (died 2015)
8 June –
Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers , politician (died 2012)
10 June –
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn , Labour Party politician (died 2016)
[25]
12 June –
Brigid Brophy , author (died 1995)
13 June –
Alan Civil , horn player (died 1989)
20 June –
Anne Weale , romantic novelist (died 2007)
22 June –
Bruce Kent , peace campaigner, previously Catholic priest (died 2022)
[26]
23 June
26 June –
Rodney Nuckey , racing driver (died 2000)
30 June
5 July –
Tony Lock , cricketer (died 1995)
6 July –
Jack Edwards , Welsh footballer and manager (died 2014)
7 July –
Colin Walker , footballer (died 2017)
8 July –
A. T. Q. Stewart , Northern Irish historian and academic (died 2010)
9 July
10 July –
Winnie Ewing , Scottish nationalist politician (died 2023)
12 July –
Brian Woodward , footballer (died 2014)
15 July –
Larry Lamb , newspaper editor (died 2000)
17 July –
Kenneth Grange , industrial designer
20 July –
Irving Wardle , writer and theatre critic (died 2023)
21 July –
John Woodvine , stage and screen actor
22 July –
U. A. Fanthorpe , poet (died 2009)
24 July
25 July –
Bryan Pearce , artist (died 2007)
27 July –
Jack Higgins , born Harry Patterson, thriller writer (died 2022)
30 July –
Donald Hamilton Fraser , artist (died 2009)
31 July
2 August –
David Waddington, Baron Waddington , politician (died 2017)
8 August –
Ronald Biggs , criminal (died 2013)
11 August –
Alun Hoddinott , Welsh composer (died 2008)
12 August –
Jean Miller , actress and painter (died 2014)
23 August –
Pete King , saxophonist (died 2009)
25 August –
Clifford Forsythe , politician (died 2000)
28 August –
John Evans , footballer (died 2004)
29 August
30 August –
Ian McNaught-Davis , television presenter (died 2014)
[27]
2 September –
Victor Spinetti , actor (died 2012)
4 September –
Robin Hunter , actor (died 2004)
15 September –
John Julius Norwich , historian (died 2018)
17 September –
Stirling Moss , racing driver (died 2020)
18 September
19 September
21 September –
Bernard Williams , philosopher (died 2003)
23 September –
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife , peer (died 2018)
25 September –
Ronnie Barker , comic actor (died 2005)
28 September –
Gordon Reece , journalist and political strategist (died 2001)
2 October –
Robin Hardy , film director and author (died 2016)
6 October –
George Carman , lawyer (died 2001)
7 October
8 October –
Betty Boothroyd , Speaker of the House of Commons (died 2023)
11 October –
Vivian Matalon , theatre director (died 2018)
[28]
16 October
Ray Jessel , Welsh songwriter, screenwriter, orchestrator and musical theatre composer (died 2015)
Mary Parry , figure skater (died 2017)
20 October –
Colin Jeavons , actor
24 October –
Clifford Rose , actor (died 2021)
25 October –
Robin Parkinson , actor (died 2022)
28 October
30 October
4 November –
Dickie Valentine , singer and actor (died 1971)
7 November
12 November –
Peter Lamont , art director and production designer (died 2020)
13 November –
Theo Aronson , royal biographer (died 2003)
23 November –
Maurice Flitcroft , golfer (died 2007)
27 November
8 December –
Ali Bongo , magician (died 2009)
9 December –
Reay Tannahill , writer (died 2007)
11 December –
Kenneth MacMillan , ballet dancer and choreographer (died 1992)
12 December –
John Osborne , playwright and film producer (died 1994)
16 December
17 December –
Jacqueline Hill , actress (died 1993)
23 December –
Hugh Millais , actor and author (died 2009)
24 December –
Tim Brinton , politician (died 2009)
25 December –
Stuart Hall , presenter
28 December –
Brian Redhead , journalist and broadcaster (died 1994)
31 December –
Peter May , English cricketer (died 1994)
Deaths
15 January –
Sir William Boyd Dawkins , geologist (born 1837)
24 January –
Wilfred Baddeley , tennis player (born 1872)
6 February –
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes , Scottish writer and women's rights activist (born 1840)
12 February –
Lillie Langtry , British singer and actress (born 1853)
14 February –
Sydney Carline , painter, war artist (born 1888)
2 March –
Sir Edward Seymour , admiral (born 1840)
12 April –
Flora Annie Steel , writer (born 1847)
21 April –
Lucy Clifford , novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1846)
9 May –
Kate Perugini , née Dickens, painter (born 1839)
21 May –
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1847)
5 June – Sir
Cecil Burney , admiral (born 1858)
16 June –
Bramwell Booth , General of The Salvation Army (born 1856)
21 June –
Leonard Hobhouse , political theorist and sociologist (born 1864)
24 June –
Queenie Newall , archer (born 1854)
[29]
28 June –
Edward Carpenter , English poet (born 1844)
5 August – Dame
Millicent Fawcett , British suffragist and feminist (born 1847)
13 August – Sir
Ray Lankester , zoologist (born 1847)
14 August –
Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne , general (born 1861)
26 August – Sir
Ernest Satow , British diplomat and scholar (born 1843)
7 September –
Frederic Weatherly , English lyricist (born 1848)
19 September –
Francis Darwin , botanist and academic (born 1848)
27 September –
Johnny Hill , flyweight boxer (born 1905)
29 October –
Emily Robin , brothel owner, in road accident (born 1874)
30 October –
Gertrude Keightley , English-born Northern Ireland local government and charity official (born c. 1864)
14 December –
Sir Henry Jackson , admiral (born 1855)
17 December –
Arthur G. Jones-Williams , aviator (born 1898)
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