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Events from the year 1929 in the United Kingdom. This year sees the start of the Great Depression.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George V
- Prime Minister – Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) (until 5 June), Ramsay MacDonald (Labour) (starting 5 June)
- Parliament – 34th (until 10 May), 35th (starting 25 June)
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.
- 30 March – Imperial Airways begins operating the first commercial flights between London and Karachi.[1]
- 22 April – Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport.[2]
- 10 May
- Age of Marriage Act 1929 passed, raising the legal marriageable age to sixteen years for both parties to a marriage.
- Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a match against Oxford University.[3]
- 14 May – The North East Coast Exhibition opens, and would run for six months.[4]
- 31 May – The general election returns a hung parliament. 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.[5]
- 7 June – The Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for a fragile majority.
- 8 June – Ramsay MacDonald forms a new Labour government.[2] 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.[1]
- 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.[6]
- 11 July – Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills fifteen people 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.[7]
- 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.[2]
- 1 November
- The Pony Club established.[1]
- Release in the United States of the historical film Disraeli. George Arliss plays the title rôle, for which he will be awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first British winner.
- 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.)[8]
- 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.[9]
- 10 December
- Arthur Harden wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Hans von Euler-Chelpin "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes".[10]
- Frederick Hopkins wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins".[11]
- 31 December – Glen Cinema disaster in Paisley, Scotland: 69 children die trying to escape smoke.[12]
Undated
- First Tesco store opens, at Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middlesex.[13]
- Coypu introduced to East Anglia for their fur.
- Ross County F.C. founded in Dingwall, Scotland. They initially play in the Highland League.
Publications
- Agatha Christie's novel The Seven Dials Mystery.
- Robert Graves' memoir Good-Bye to All That.
- Patrick Hamilton's play Rope.
- Richard Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica.
- Charles Kay Ogden's book Basic English.
- J. B. Priestley's novel The Good Companions.[14]
- Alison Uttley's children's book The Squirrel, The Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit, introducing Little Grey Rabbit.
- Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own.
Births
- 21 January – John Hayes, art historian (died 2005)
- 28 January – Acker Bilk, jazz clarinetist and band leader (died 2014)
- 31 January – Jean Simmons, actress (died 2010)
- 6 February – Keith Waterhouse, novelist and journalist (died 2009)
- 8 February – Roger Byrne, footballer (died 1958)
- 15 February – Graham Hill, race car driver (died 1975)
- 17 February
- Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1993)
- Patricia Routledge, actress
- 18 February – Len Deighton, author
- 21 February – James Beck, actor (died 1973)
- 5 March – David Sheppard, cricketer and Bishop of Liverpool (died 2005)
- 13 March – Jim Slater, investor (died 2015)
- 23 March – Sir Roger Bannister, runner (died 2018)
- 24 March – Francis Essex, television producer (died 2009)
- 1 April – Barbara Bryne, actress
- 5 April – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (died 2001)
- 10 April – Mike Hawthorn, racing driver (died 1959)
- 17 April – John Raymond Hobbs, pathologist (died 2008)
- 18 April – Peter Jeffrey, actor (died 1999)
- 21 April – Barbara Keogh, actress (died 2005)
- 22 April – Michael Atiyah, mathematician (died 2019)
- 29 April – Jeremy Thorpe, Liberal leader (died 2014)
- 4 May – Audrey Hepburn, actress (died 1993)
- 9 May – Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick, lawyer and judge
- 14 May – Henry McGee, actor (died 2006)
- 15 May – Andrew Bertie, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (died 2008)
- 5 June – Denis Coe, soldier, educator and politician (d. 2015)
- 8 June – Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician (died 2012)
- 10 June – Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician (died 2016)[15]
- 12 June – Brigid Brophy, author (died 1995)
- 13 June – Alan Civil, horn player (died 1989)
- 5 July – Tony Lock, cricketer (died 1995)
- 9 July – Derek Ratcliffe, conservationist (died 2005)
- 15 July – Larry Lamb, newspaper editor (died 2000)
- 17 July – Kenneth Grange, industrial designer
- 22 July – U. A. Fanthorpe, poet (died 2009)
- 24 July – Peter Yates, film director (died 2011)
- 25 July – Bryan Pearce, artist (died 2007)
- 30 July – Donald Hamilton Fraser, artist (died 2009)
- 31 July – Lynne Reid Banks, author
- 2 August – David Waddington, Baron Waddington, politician (died 2017)
- 8 August – Ronald Biggs, criminal (died 2013)
- 23 August – Pete King, saxophonist (died 2009)
- 25 August – Clifford Forsythe, politician (died 2000)
- 29 August – Thom Gunn, poet (died 2004)
- 15 September – John Julius Norwich, historian (died 2018)
- 18 September
- Richard Grimsdale, electrical engineer (died 2005)
- Elizabeth Spriggs, actress (died 2008)
- 21 September – Bernard Williams, philosopher (died 2003)
- 25 September – Ronnie Barker, comedian (died 2005)
- 6 October – George Carman, lawyer (died 2001)
- 7 October – Robert Westall, author (died 1993)
- 28 October – Joan Plowright, actress
- 23 November – Maurice Flitcroft, golfer (died 2007)
- 27 November – Alan Simpson, television comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
- 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
- Nicholas Courtney, actor (died 2011)
- Bernard Crick, political theorist (died 2008)
- James Moore, author (died 2017)
- 17 December – Jacqueline Hill, actress (died 1993)
- 23 December – Hugh Millais, actor and author (died 2009)
- 24 December – Tim Brinton, politician (died 2009)
- 28 December – Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (died 1994)
Deaths
- 12 February – Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (born 1853)
- 21 May – Lord Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1847)
- 16 June – Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (born 1856)
- 24 June – Queenie Newall, archer (born 1854)[16]
- 28 June – Edward Carpenter, English poet (born 1844)
- 5 August – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragist and feminist (born 1847)
- 26 August – Sir Ernest Satow, British diplomat and scholar (born 1843)
- 7 September – Frederic Weatherly, English lyricist (born 1848)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. p. 91. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 371–372. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "Oxford University v Yorkshire in 1929". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ "Exhibition Park: Newcastle City Council". Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 3 June 2013.
- ^ Graham-Dixon, Andrew (11 May 2003). "Rude awakening". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
- ^ Sexton, Jamie. "Drifters (1929)". screenonline. BFI. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ Lawrence, David (1994). Underground Architecture. Harrow: Capital Transport. pp. 68–71. ISBN 1-85414-160-0.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929". Retrieved 28 November 2007.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929". Retrieved 28 November 2007.
- ^ "Glen Cinema". The History of Paisley. Paisley.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Our history". Tesco plc. Archived from the original on 2 May 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
- ^ "Lord Taylor of Blackburn". 26 November 2016 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Newall, Sybil Fenton [Queenie] (1854–1929), archer". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65168. Retrieved 23 April 2019.