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Events from the year Silver Jubilee of King George V. Political events included a general election in November and changes in the leadership of both the Conservative and Labour parties.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George V
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald (Coalition) (until 7 June), Stanley Baldwin (Coalition) (starting 7 June)
Events
- 1 January – Ramblers' Associationfounded.
- 21 February – the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine is first flown, at Hucknall Aerodrome.[1]
- 26 February – Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar, at Daventry.[2]
- 6 March – Croydon Aerodrome robbery: £21,000 worth of gold is stolen and never recovered.
- 12 March – speed limit in built-up areas reduced to 30 mph.[3]
- 18 March – Britain protests at Germany's introduction of conscription.
- April – reflective cat's-eyes first used on British roads.[3]
- 6 May – silver jubilee celebrations for King George V.[3]
- 11 May – Ewart Astill captains Leicestershire County Cricket Club for the remainder of the season, the first professional cricketer to lead any county on a regular basis since the 19th century.[4]
- 13 May – Arabist, historian and war hero T. E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, is involved in a serious accident while riding his motorcycle near Clouds Hill, his home in Dorset; he dies of his injuries on 19 May, aged 46.
- 14 May – Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win will not be until 29 May 1939.
- 19 May – canonization of Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More by Pope Pius XI. This year also, Bede is sanctified by the Catholic Church.[5]
- 21 May – the funeral of Lady Astor and King Ghazi of Iraqattend.
- 22 May – the government announces plans to triple the size of the German re-armament.
- 23 May – landmark case decided on appeal in the House of Lords, reaffirms the presumption of innocence as the "golden thread" in criminal law.[6]
- 1 June – the driving test becomes compulsory.[2]
- 6 June – Alfred Hitchcock's film of The 39 Steps released in the UK.
- 7 June – Ramsay MacDonald retires; Stanley Baldwin takes over as Prime Minister.[3]
- 18 June – Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.[3]
- 29 June – first portion of Swanscombe skull, belonging to a woman from 400,000 years past, is discovered in north Kent.[7]
- 12 July – rioting breaks out in
- 13 July – official completion of the
- 29 July – T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation, two months after his death resulting from a motorcycle accident.
- 30 July – Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain.[2][3]
- 17 August–24 August – The Deaflympics take place in London.[11]
- 18 August – last service held in Mardale church in the Lake District prior to the village's flooding to create Manchester Corporation's Haweswater Reservoir.[12]
- 3 September – Malcolm Campbell breaks the 300 mph barrier for the first time and sets a new land speed record of 301.337 mph (484.955 km/h) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, driving the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird.[13]
- 11 September – St Leger.
- 12 September – an underground explosion at North Gawber (Lidgett) colliery, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, kills nineteen.[14]
- 30 September – the London and North Eastern Railway begins to run the Silver Jubilee train between London King's Cross and Newcastle, Britain's first streamliner, using Nigel Gresley's LNER Class A4 steam locomotives.
- October – first steel produced from new works at Corby.
- 8 October – Clement Attlee is appointed as interim leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury[15] who has resigned due to a wish to maintain his Christian pacifist principles.
- 21 October – consumer law, decided on appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
- 4 November – opening of International Style.
- 6 November – maiden flight of the Royal Air Force's Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft, at Brooklands.[2]
- 14 November – in the National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority. This election begins the modern tradition of the Speaker of the House of Commons seeking re-election as such rather than under a party label.[16]
- 26 November
- In the Labour Party leadership election, Clement Attlee is confirmed as leader.[3]
- Release of Scrooge, the first all-talking full-length film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Sir Seymour Hicks in the title rôle.[17]
- 10 December
- James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the neutron."[18]
- 1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash at Tatsfield: all eleven on board the flight are killed.
- 12 December – opening of Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in the International style.[19][20][21][22]
- 18 December – foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.
- Undated – Rowntree's of York produce their first Chocolate Crisp bars, which will in 1937 be renamed Kit Kat.
Publications
- Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet.
- Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds.
- Graham Greene's novel England Made Me.
- Georgette Heyer's Regency romance Regency Buck.
- Christopher Isherwood's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains.
- John Masefield's children's fantasy The Box of Delights.
- George Orwell's novel A Clergyman's Daughter.
- Marion Richardson's teaching guides Writing and Writing Patterns.
- Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel Gaudy Night.
- Caroline Spurgeon's study Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us.
- P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.
Births
- 2 January
- Ray Byrom, English footballer (died 2020)
- David McKee, writer and illustrator (died 2022)
- 3 January – David Vine, television presenter (died 2009)
- 18 January – Jon Stallworthy, poet (died 2014)
- 19 January
- Robin Birley, archaeologist (died 2018)
- Bryan Pringle, actor (died 2002)
- 21 January – Andrew Sinclair, polymath (died 2019)
- 24 January
- Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (died 2008)
- Bamber Gascoigne, broadcaster and author (died 2022)[23]
- 25 January – J. G. Farrell, novelist (died 1979)
- 27 January
- Gillian Beer, academic and critic
- D. M. Thomas, novelist, poet and translator (died 2023)
- 28 January – David Lodge, novelist
- 30 January – Stuart Wheeler, financier and political activist (died 2020)
- 5 February – Alex Harvey, Scottish rock musician (died 1982)
- 7 February – Cliff Jones, Welsh footballer
- 9 February
- Paul Flynn, politician (died 2019)
- Roger Needham, computer scientist (died 2003)
- 16 February – Brian Bedford, British actor (died 2016)
- 17 February – Christina Pickles, actress
- 21 February – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (died 1994)[24]
- 27 February – Anne Treisman, psychologist (died 2018)
- 3 March – George Gardiner, politician (died 2002)
- 7 March - Michael Hopkins, architect (died 2023)
- 10 March – Peter Rolfe Vaughan, engineer (died 2008)
- 13 March – David Nobbs, comic writer (died 2015)
- 21 March – Brian Clough, footballer and football manager (died 2004)
- 23 March – Barry Cryer, comedy writer and performer (died 2022)
- 24 March – Mary Berry, food writer and television presenter
- 27 March
- Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean, aristocrat and public servant (died 2018)
- Julian Glover, actor
- 28 March
- Frank Judd, politician (died 2021)
- Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter (died 2023)
- 29 March – Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer (died 1996)[25]
- 5 April
- Donald Lynden-Bell, astrophysicist (died 2018)
- Guy Lyon Playfair, British writer (died 2018)
- 10 April – Tony Zemaitis, guitar maker (died 2002)
- 14 April – Terrance Dicks, television writer (died 2019)
- 19 April – Dudley Moore, comedian, actor and musician (died 2002)
- 25 April – April Ashley, transgender model (died 2021)
- 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet (died 2023)
- 8 May – Jack Charlton, footballer (died 2020)
- 9 May – Roger Hargreaves, children's author (died 1988)
- 11 May – Chris Perrins, English biologist, ornithologist and academic
- 14 May – Mel Charles, Welsh footballer (died 2016)
- 17 May – Dennis Potter, writer (died 1994)
- 23 May
- Juliet Campbell, née Collings, diplomat and academic administrator
- Julian Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell, politician
- 27 May – Roger Owen, British historian (died 2018)
- 28 May
- Anne Reid, actress
- Richard Van Allen, opera singer (died 2008)
- 1 June – Norman Foster, architect and designer
- 2 June – Roger Brierley, actor (died 2005)
- 3 June – Raoul Franklin, physicist and academic (died 2021)
- 5 June – Anne Pashley, track and field sprinter and operatic soprano (died 2016)
- 12 June – Jane Freeman, actress (died 2017)
- 18 June – John Spencer, snooker player (died 2006)
- 19 June – Derren Nesbitt, actor
- 23 June – Keith Burkinshaw, footballer and manager
- 25 June
- Tony Lanfranchi, racing driver (died 2004)
- Charles Sheffield, science fiction author and physicist (died 2002)
- 27 June – Colin Bazley, bishop
- 28 June
- Roy Faulkner, footballer
- John Inman, comic actor (died 2007)
- Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell, rugby union player (died 2006)
- 29 June
- Jill Briscoe, British American author, editor and speaker
- Derek Partridge, actor, television presenter, spokesman and voice-over artist
- 30 June
- 1 July – David Prowse, weightlifter and film performer (died 2020)
- 5 July – Shirley Collins, folk singer
- 7 July – Billy Russell, footballer (died 2022)
- 9 July – Michael Williams, actor (died 2001)
- 11 July – Oliver Napier, politician (died 2011)
- 15 July – William G. Stewart, television producer and presenter (died 2017)
- 16 July – James Bolam, actor
- 19 July – David Parry-Evans, Royal Air Force commander (died 2020)
- 20 July
- Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, real estate developer, art collector and connoisseur of architecture
- Ted Rogers, comedian (died 2001)
- 24 July – Les Reed, songwriter (died 2019)
- 27 July – Billy McCullough, footballer
- 28 July – Simon Dee, television presenter (died 2009)
- 10 August – Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby, British politician and numismatist (died 2018)
- 13 August – Rod Hull, entertainer (died 1999)
- 15 August – Jim Dale, actor and singer
- 5 September – Johnny Briggs, actor (died 2021)
- 6 September – Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish football player and manager (died 1996)
- 18 September – John Spencer, English snooker player (died 2006)
- 20 September – Keith Roberts, science fiction writer (died 2000)
- 21 September – Jimmy Armfield, footballer (died 2018)
- 28 September
- Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
- Alan Shepherd, motorcycle racer (died 2007)
- 29 September
- David Daker, actor
- Bruce Tulloh, long-distance runner (died 2018)
- 30 September – Janet Reger, née Chabinsky, lingerie designer (died 2005)
- 1 October – Julie Andrews, born Julia Wells, singer and actress[26]
- 9 October – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- 10 October – Judith Chalmers, television presenter
- 13 October – Michael Heath, cartoonist
- 17 October – Michael Eavis, founder of Glastonbury Festival
- 20 October – Roy Bailey, folk singer (died 2018)
- 30 October – Michael Winner, film director (died 2013)
- 31 October – David Harvey, economic geographer
- 2 November
- Lucy Barfield, godchild of C. S. Lewis and inspiration for Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia (died 2003)
- Peter Seabrook, gardening writer and broadcaster (died 2022)
- 5 November
- David Battley, actor (died 2003)
- Nicholas Maw, composer (died 2009)
- Lester Piggott, jockey (died 2022)
- 12 November – William Tallon, Steward and Page of the Backstairs, servant of 50 years to the British Royal family (died 2007)
- 13 November – George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 14 November – Michael Busselle, photographer and author (died 2006)
- 15 November – Gillian Reynolds, radio critic
- 18 November – Rodney Hall, English-born Australian author and poet
- 20 November – Bridget Jones, literary academic (died 2000)
- 27 November – Verity Lambert, television producer (died 2007)
- 10 December – Terry Allcock, footballer and cricketer
- 14 December – Jaques Lacan(died 2019)
- 15 December – Jim Iley, football player and manager (died 2018)
- 18 December
- Brian Bamford, golfer (died 2021)
- Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook, aristocrat and food quality campaigner
- Rosemary Leach, actress (died 2017)
- 23 December – Johnny Kidd, English rock and roll singer-songwriter (died 1966)
- 29 December – Jean Denton, politician and racing driver (died 2001)
Deaths
- 7 February – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish-born writer; peritonitis (born 1901)
- 15 February – Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist (born 1850)
- 28 February – Sir Arthur Lowes Dickinson, accountant (born 1859)
- 12 March – Sir Malcolm Smith, politician (born 1856)
- 16 March – John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 27 March – Francis Rattenbury, architect; murdered (born 1867)
- 5 April – Basil Champneys, architect (born 1842)
- 20 April – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, fashion designer (born 1863)
- 18 May – T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), soldier; motorcycle accident (born 1888)
- 6 June – George Grossmith, Jr., musical comedy performer and producer (born 1874)
- 21 August – John Hartley, tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (born 1849)
- 28 September – William Kennedy Dickson, cinematographic pioneer (born 1860)
- 29 September – Winifred Holtby, novelist; Bright's disease (born 1898)
- 20 October – Arthur Henderson, Scottish-born politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1863)
- 20 November – John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, admiral (born 1859)
- 3 December – King Edward VII(born 1868)
- 10 December
- Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet, tank and vehicle designer (born 1892)
- Sir Alfred Sharpe, colonial governor (b. 1853)
- 16 December – Percy Gilchrist, industrialist (b. 1851)
- 30 December – Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, politician and judge (b. 1860)
See also
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