1932 in the United Kingdom
UK-related events during the year of 1932
Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom
Incumbents
Events
Broadcasting House 1 March — Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs .[ 3]
15 March — first BBC radio broadcast from the new Broadcasting House in London;[ 3]
6 April – Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance .[ 3]
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.[ 4]
23 April — new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon ;[ 5] Elisabeth Scott , it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.[ 6]
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 .[ 7]
26 May — the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson House of Lords , establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence .[ 8]
2 July — the exiled former king of Portugal, Manuel II , dies at Fulwell in Middlesex; his body is later returned to Portugal for burial.
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.[ 9]
22 August — first experimental television broadcast by the BBC.[ 5]
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 .[ 10] [ 11]
October
3 October — The Times Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison .[ 12]
7 October — Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra .[ 3] [ 13]
10 October — a mine cage accident at Bickershaw Colliery in the Lancashire Coalfield drowns 19.[ 14] [ 15]
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.[ 16]
14 November — book tokens go on sale in the UK.[ 5]
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
19 December — the BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service , begins broadcasting[ 5] shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station .[ 19]
25 December — King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message [ 3] Sandringham House ; the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling .
Undated
Publications
Births
Elizabeth Taylor Nigel Lawson Phyllida Law Arnold Wesker V. S. Naipaul W. Morgan Sheppard 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 (died 2024)
3 February – Molly Parkin , painter, novelist and journalist
8 February
11 February – Dennis Skinner , politician
12 February – Richard Rougier , judge (died 2007)
13 February
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)[ 23]
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
26 April – Michael Smith , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000 in Canada)
4 May – Ivor Wood , television animator (died 2004)
6 May – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath , peer and landowner (died 2020)
7 May – Jenny Joseph , poet (died 2018)
9 May
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[ 24]
30 May
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
25 June
26 June – John Wall , inventor (died 2018)
27 June
4 July – Matt Crowe , Scottish football (soccer) player (died 2017)
6 July – Phyllida Law , actress
8 July
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
26 July – Neil McCarthy , actor (died 1985)[ 26]
28 July – Russell Johnston , politician (died 2008)
6 August
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
27 August – Lady Antonia Fraser , writer
31 August – Roy Castle , entertainer (died 1994)
1 September – Raymond Durgnat , film critic (died 2002)
4 September
7 September – Malcolm Bradbury , author and academic (died 2000)
9 September – Alice Thomas Ellis , writer (died 2005)
11 September
21 September – Shirley Conran , author and journalist (died 2024)
22 September
25 September – Terry Medwin , footballer (died 2024)
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 (died 2024)
9 October – Colin Clark , film-maker (died 2002)
10 October – Harry Smith , footballer (died 2016)
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
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)
22 April – Edward Taylor Scott , newspaper editor/proprietor (drowned in yachting accident) (born 1883(
26 April – William Lockwood , cricketer (born 1868)
13 June – Alexander Bethell , admiral (born 1855)
2 July – Manuel II of Portugal , exiled monarch (born 1889)
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
References
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