1925 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Events

29 May - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
30 October - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
Work begins on the Royal Tweed Bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
First BBC shortwave transmissions are broadcast from Daventry's Borough Hill.
Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact. ^[1]

7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)
17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (d. 2003)
23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer
22 April - George Cole, actor
3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (d. 2001)
30 July - Alexander Trocchi, writer (d. 1984)
12 August - Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
12 August - Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer
8 September - Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (d. 1980)
23 September - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
13 October - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
31 October - John Anthony Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
27 November - John Maddox, science writer