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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
in the
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George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born duri ...
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Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
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Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...
( Conservative) (until 16 January),
Ramsay MacDonald James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...
(
Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
) (starting 22 January, until 4 November),
Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...
( Conservative) (starting 4 November) *
Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...
** 33rd (starting 8 January, until 9 October) ** 34th (starting 2 December)


Events

* 1 January – Meteorological Office issues its first broadcast Shipping Forecast, at this time called ''Weather Shipping''. * 10 January – British submarine sinks in a collision in the
English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...
– 43 dead. * 15 January – the world's first radio play, ''Danger'' by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the
British Broadcasting Company The British Broadcasting Company Ltd. (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Licensed by the British Genera ...
from its studios in London. * 22 January –
Ramsay MacDonald James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...
becomes the first
Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...
Prime Minister, leading a minority government. This follows
Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...
's resignation after his government loses a
vote of no confidence A motion of no confidence, also variously called a vote of no confidence, no-confidence motion, motion of confidence, or vote of confidence, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility like in government or mana ...
in the debate on the King's Speech. * 23 January –
Margaret Bondfield Margaret Grace Bondfield (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in th ...
becomes the first woman to be appointed a government minister. * 25 January–4 February – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix,
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
and win 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals. * February ** Baldwin establishes the Conservative Consultative Committee, the first organised Shadow Cabinet. **
John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demo ...
, working in
Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
, sends rudimentary
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
pictures over a short distance. * 1 February – the United Kingdom recognises the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. * 5 February – hourly
Greenwich Time Signal The Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones (or "pips") broadcast at one-second intervals by many BBC Radio stations. The pips were introduced in 1924 and have been generated by the BBC since 199 ...
from
Royal Greenwich Observatory The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in G ...
is broadcast for the first time. * 18 February – commissioning of , the
Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
's first purpose-designed
aircraft carrier An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a ...
. * 28 March – first
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broadcast from
Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...
(station 5PY). * 23 April – first broadcast by
King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...
, opening the British Empire Exhibition at
Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 200 ...
. * 26 April ** Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his "
death ray The death ray or death beam was a theoretical particle beam or electromagnetic weapon first theorized around the 1920s and 1930s. Around that time, notable inventors such as Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Harry Grindell Matthews, Edwin R. Scot ...
" in London but fails to convince the
War Office The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...
. ** Footwear retailer Charles Clinkard opens the doors to its first shop, in
Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the a ...
. * May – Royal Fine Art Commission appointed to advise the government on matters concerning the built environment. * 4 May–27 July – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the
Olympics The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
in
Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
and win 9 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze medals. * 30 May –
Russell case The Russell case, also called the Ampthill baby case, was a series of proceedings related to the conception of Geoffrey Russell. It covered two divorce cases and the claim to the British peerage title Baron Ampthill, and the possibility of a v ...
decided on appeal to the House of Lords: Christabel Russell is cleared of adultery on the grounds of being a virgin thus legitimising
her son ''Her Son'' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome and Mercy Hatton. It was based on the 1907 novel ''Her Son'' by Horace Annesley Vachell. Cast * Violet Hopson - Dorothy Fairfax ...
as heir to her separated husband John Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill. * 3 June –
Gleneagles Hotel Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland. It was commissioned by the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1924. The bandleader, Henry Hall (bandleader), Henry Hall, performed at the hotel before the World War II, Second World War d ...
opens in
Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
. * 8 June –
George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Born in Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchester ...
and Andrew Irvine are last seen "going strong for the top" of
Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...
by teammate
Noel Odell Noel Ewart Odell FRSE FGS (25 December 1890 – 21 February 1987) was an English geologist and mountaineer. In 1924 he was an oxygen officer on the Everest expedition in which George Mallory and Andrew Irvine famously perished during their summit ...
at 12:50 PM. The two
mountaineers Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, an ...
are never seen alive again. * 7 July – Harold Abrahams wins 100m gold at the Paris Olympics in a time of 10.6 seconds. * 11 July –
Eric Liddell Eric Henry Liddell (; 16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and Christian missionary. Born in Qing China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended boarding school near London, spending time when p ...
wins 400m gold at the Paris Olympics in a new world record time of 47.6 seconds. * 7 August – Housing (Financial Provisions) Act provides government subsidy for the building of houses to rent, principally by local authorities. * 13 August –
Campbell Case The Campbell Case of 1924 involved charges against a British communist newspaper editor, John Ross Campbell, J. R. Campbell, for alleged "incitement to mutiny" caused by his publication of a provocative open letter to members of the military. The ...
: The government forces charges of incitement to mutiny against communist newspaper editor J. R. Campbell to be dropped leading to its defeat in a vote of no confidence against the MacDonald ministry in the House of Commons. * 27 August – first Southport Flower Show opens. * 30 August – Britain accepts the Dawes Plan for receiving German war reparations. * 14 September – first BBC broadcast from
Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
(station 2BE). * 24 October – the
Foreign Office Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * Unit ...
releases the Zinoviev Letter which is published in the following morning's ''
Daily Mail The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper and news websitePeter Wilb"Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail: The man who hates liberal Britain", ''New Statesman'', 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) publish ...
''. This purports to be a directive from
Grigory Zinoviev Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, . Transliterated ''Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev'' according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch Apfelbaum, – 25 August 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (russian: Ов ...
, head of the Communist International in Moscow, to the
Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPG ...
. * 25 October – authorities of the
British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...
in India arrest
Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose ( ; 23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945 * * * * * * * * *) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperia ...
and jail him for the next two and half years. * 29 October – 1924 general election is won by the
Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...
under
Stanley Baldwin Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...
. Among the new
members of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
is 30-year-old future
Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he ...
, the new Conservative MP for
Stockton-on-Tees Stockton-on-Tees, often simply referred to as Stockton, is a market town in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is on the northern banks of the River Tees, part of the Teesside built-up area. The town had an estimated ...
(born in Chelsea to a British father and an American mother). * 2 November – the ''
Sunday Express The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet i ...
'' becomes the first newspaper to publish a
crossword A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answ ...
. * 22 November –
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster is a Latin Church Roman Catholic diocese centred on Lancaster Cathedral in the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. History The diocese was erected in 1924, taking areas and parishes from the Archdi ...
erected. * 24 December –
1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash The 1924 Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash occurred on 24 December 1924 when de Havilland DH.34 G-EBBX of Imperial Airways crashed at Purley, London, Purley, Surrey, United Kingdom killing all eight people on board. The aircraft was ope ...
: Imperial Airways
de Havilland DH.34 The de Havilland DH.34 was a single engined British biplane airliner built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company in the 1920s. 12 were built, with the DH.34 serving with Imperial Airways and its predecessors for several years. Design and develo ...
''G-EBBX'' crashes at Purley shortly after takeoff from
Croydon Airport Croydon Airport (former ICAO code: EGCR) was the UK's only international airport during the interwar period. Located in Croydon, South London, England, it opened in 1920, built in a Neoclassical style, and was developed as Britain's main air ...
, killing all eight people on board, the new line's first fatal accident, leading to the first UK public inquiry into a civil aviation accident.


Undated

*
Air Raid Precautions Air Raid Precautions (ARP) refers to a number of organisations and guidelines in the United Kingdom dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids. Government consideration for air raid precautions increased in the 1920s an ...
committee set up. * The
Scottish county The shires of Scotland ( gd, Siorrachdan na h-Alba), or counties of Scotland, are historic subdivisions of Scotland established in the Middle Ages and used as administrative divisions until 1975. Originally established for judicial purposes (bei ...
of Linlithgowshire is officially renamed
West Lothian West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its shires of Scotland, historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geogra ...
. * The
London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...
officially names its '' Flying Scotsman''
express train An express train is a type of passenger train that makes a small number of stops between its origin and destination stations, usually major destinations, allowing faster service than Local train, local trains that stop at most or all of the s ...
, although the service between
London King's Cross King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London. It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United King ...
and
Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
over the
East Coast Main Line The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a electrified railway between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. The line is a key transport artery on the eastern side of Great Britain running broa ...
has previously been known by this title, and has operated since 1862. *
Edward Victor Appleton Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He w ...
investigates the Heaviside layer. * Frigidaire becomes the first make of
refrigerator A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so th ...
marketed in the UK. * First
nudist camp A naturist resort or nudist resort is an establishment that provides accommodation (or at least camping space) and other amenities for guests in a context where they are invited to practise naturism – that is, a lifestyle of non-sexual socia ...
established, at Wickford,
Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
. *
Bedgebury National Pinetum Bedgebury National Pinetum at Bedgebury, Kent, in the United Kingdom, is a recreational and conservational arboretum managed by Forestry England that was established as the National Conifer Collection in 1925 and is now recognised as the most ...
established in Kent.


Publications

* Michael Arlen's novel ''The Green Hat''. *
Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...
's novel ''
The Man in the Brown Suit ''The Man in the Brown Suit'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The character Colo ...
''. * E. M. Forster's novel '' A Passage to India''. * Margaret Kennedy's novel '' The Constant Nymph''. * A. A. Milne's poem collection ''
When We Were Very Young ''When We Were Very Young'' is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. It was first published in 1924, and it was illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The book begins with an intro ...
''. * Mary Webb's novel ''
Precious Bane ''Precious Bane'' is a historical romance by Mary Webb, first published in 1924. It won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1926. Synopsis The story is set in rural Shropshire during the Napoleonic Wars. It is narrated by the central charac ...
''. *
P. C. Wren Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522 November 1941) was an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for ''Beau Geste'', a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was ...
's novel ''
Beau Geste ''Beau Geste'' is an adventure novel by British writer P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a rel ...
''.


Births

* 1 January –
John Warner John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 200 ...
, actor (died 2001) * 3 January –
Doug Ellis Sir Herbert Douglas Ellis, (3 January 1924 – 11 October 2018) was an English entrepreneur. He was the chairman of Aston Villa Football Club from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1982 until 2006. Ellis was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours L ...
, entrepreneur and football club chairman (died 2018) * 5 January –
Eric Cheney Eric Cheney (5 January 1924 – 30 December 2001) was an English motorcycle racer, designer and independent constructor. He was known as one of the best motorcycle frame designers of his era, concentrating mainly in the off-road competition afte ...
, motorcycle designer (died 2001) * 7 January – Geoffrey Bayldon, actor (died 2017) * 8 January – Ron Moody, actor (died 2015) * 12 January –
Francis Coleman Francis Coleman (12 January 192410 April 2008) was a conductor and television producer and director. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Coleman began working in an office at the age of fourteen while studying music at ...
, orchestral conductor (born in Canada; died 2008) * 13 January –
Ivor Stanbrook Ivor Robert Stanbrook (13 January 1924 – 18 February 2004) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative party politician and barrister. He represented Orpington as its Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992. Biography and early life Sta ...
, politician (died 2004) * 19 January –
Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
, peer and racing manager (died 2001) * 21 January – Benny Hill, comedian and actor (died 1992) * 22 January – Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, English academic and politician (died 2019) * 23 January –
David Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron David William Anthony Blyth Macpherson, 2nd Baron Strathcarron (23 January 1924 – 31 August 2006), was best known as the "motorcycling peer". He inherited the Barony on his father's death in 1937, but lost his automatic right to a seat in the ...
, hereditary peer and motoring expert (died 2006) * 27 January –
Brian Rix Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, (27 January 1924 – 20 August 2016) was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including ''Dry Rot'', '' Simple Spymen'' and ''One for ...
, farceur and mental disability campaigner (died 2016) * 5 February –
Anthony Besch Anthony John Elwyn Besch (5 February 1924 – 23 December 2002) was an English opera and theatre director. As a young man he worked at Glyndebourne assisting the directors Carl Ebert and Günther Rennert. His first work as an opera director was fo ...
, opera and theatre director (died 2002) * 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster (died 2002) * 14 February – Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, peeress (died 2017) * 24 February –
Lionel Dakers Lionel Frederick Dakers (24 February 1924 – 10 March 2003) was an English cathedral organist who served in Ripon Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral. Background Dakers was born on 24 February 1924 in Rochester, Kent. He studied organ under Haro ...
, organist (died 2003) * 29 February –
Steve Llewellyn Stewart Marshall "Steve" Llewellyn (29 February 1924 – 10 December 2002) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Abertillery RFC, and represe ...
, rugby union player (died 2002) * 2 March – William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, politician (died
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) * 3 March –
John Woodnutt John Edward Arthur Woodnutt (3 March 1924 – 2 January 2006) was an English character actor, often cast in villainous roles. Early life and education The younger son of Harold Frederick Woodnutt and brother of the Conservative MP Mark Woodnutt ...
, actor (died 2006) * 5 March –
Peter Lasko Peter Erik Lasko (5 March 1924 – 18 May 2003) was a British art historian, Professor of Visual Art at the University of East Anglia, from 1965 to 1974, Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, from 1974–85 and a Fellow of the B ...
, German-born art historian (died 2003) * 7 March – Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor (died 2005) * 8 March – Anthony Caro, sculptor (died 2013) * 10 March – Angela Morley, composer and conductor, known as Wally Stott (died 2009) * 12 March –
Mary Lee Woods Mary Lee Berners-Lee ('' née'' Woods; 12 March 1924 – 29 November 2017) was an English mathematician and computer scientist who worked in a team that developed programs in the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Mark 1, ...
, mathematician and computer programmer (died 2017) * 19 March –
Mary Wimbush Mary Wimbush (19 March 1924 – 31 October 2005) was an English actress whose career spanned 60 years. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1969 film ''Oh! ...
, actress (died 2005) * 24 March – Henry Alfred Symonds, soldier (died 1994) * 28 March – Freddie Bartholomew, actor (died 1992) * 30 March – Alan Davidson, food writer (died 2003) * 2 April –
Denis Rooke Sir Denis Eric Rooke (2 April 1924 – 2 September 2008) was an English industrialist and engineer. Early life Denis Eric Rooke was born in New Cross, London, the younger son of Frederick George Rooke, a printer and travelling salesman, and hi ...
, industrialist and engineer (died 2008) * 3 April –
Peter Hawkins Peter John Hawkins (3 April 1924 – 8 July 2006) was a British actor. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he was one of the most sought-after voice artists for radio and television, becoming a regular face and voice around the Soho-based cir ...
, actor, voice artist (died 2006) * 8 April –
Anthony Farrar-Hockley General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley (8 April 1924 – 11 March 2006), nicknamed Farrar the Para, was a British Army officer and a military historian who fought in a number of British conflicts. He held a number of senior commands, ...
, army general and military historian (died 2006) * 12 April ** Walter Hayes, journalist (died 2000) **
F. N. Souza Francis Newton Souza (12 April 1924 – 28 March 2002) was an Indian-American British Asian artist. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay. Souza's style exhibited both decadence and primitivism. Early life and e ...
, Indian-born artist (died 2002) * 13 April – Mary Spiller, horticulturist and teacher (died 2019) * 14 April ** Robert Stewart, textile designer (died 1995) ** Philip Stone, actor (died 2003) **
Mary Warnock Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the ...
, moral philosopher (died 2019) * 15 April ** Rikki Fulton, actor and comedian (died 2004) ** Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016) * 20 April ** Leslie Phillips, comic actor (died 2022) **
Jack Slipper Jack Kenneth Slipper (20 April 1924, in London – 24 August 2005, in Pershore) was a Detective Chief Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police in London. He was known as "Slipper of the Yard" (referring to Scotland Yard). He was mainly know ...
, detective (died 2005) * 22 April –
Peter Cathcart Wason Peter Cathcart Wason (22 April 1924 – 17 April 2003) was a cognitive psychologist at University College, London who pioneered the Psychology of Reasoning. He progressed explanations as to why people make certain consistent mistakes in logical r ...
, psychologist (died 2003) * 23 April –
Norman Painting Norman George Painting (23 April 1924 – 29 October 2009) was an English actor, broadcaster and writer. He played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera ''The Archers'' from the pilot episodes aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in s ...
, actor (died 2009) * 24 April ** Clement Freud, writer, radio personality and politician (died 2009) **
Clive King David Clive King (28 April 1924 – 10 July 2018) was an English author best known for his children's book ''Stig of the Dump'' (1963). He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the last years of the Second World War and then worked for t ...
, writer (died 2018) * 1 May –
Dennis Main Wilson Dennis Geoffrey William Wilson, known as Dennis Main Wilson (1 May 1924 – 20 January 1997) was a British producer of radio and television programmes, mainly for the BBC. Main Wilson has been described by ''Screenonline'' as "arguably the ...
, broadcast comedy producer (died 1997) * 3 May – Ken Tyrrell, racing driver (died 2001) * 7 May –
James Learmonth Gowans Sir James Learmonth Gowans (7 May 1924 – 1 April 2020) was a British physician and immunologist. In 1945, while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he assisted at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary m ...
, immunologist (died 2020) * 10 May – Edward Thomas Hall, scientist (died 2001) * 11 May **
Antony Hewish Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the ...
, radioastronomer, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then " ...
(died 2021) ** Jackie Milburn, footballer (died 1988) * 12 May –
Tony Hancock Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series ''Hancock's Half Hour'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, ...
, comedian (died 1968) * 14 May – Kenneth V. Jones, composer, conductor and music teacher (died 2020) * 17 May –
Francis Tombs, Baron Tombs Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places * Rural M ...
, industrialist and politician (died 2020) * 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer (died 2014) * 20 May –
Peter Shore Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and former UK Cabinet, Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry int ...
, politician (died 2001) * 23 May – Michael McCrum, academic (died 2005) * 24 May – Vincent Cronin, historical writer and biographer (died 2011) * 25 May –
Gordon Smith Gordon Smith may refer to: In politics *Gordon H. Smith (born 1952), former U.S. Senator from Oregon, and current Area Authority for the LDS Church * Gordon Elsworth Smith (1918–2005), Canadian politician * Gordon Smith (academic) (1927–2009), ...
, footballer (died 2004) * 28 May ** Edward du Cann, Conservative politician (died 2017) ** Reginald Eyre, politician (died 2019) * 1 June –
John Tooley Sir John Tooley (1 June 1924 – 18 March 2020)Tooley profile
announcements.telegraph. ...
, opera administrator (died 2020) * 2 June **
Peter Halliday Peter Halliday (2 June 1924 – 18 February 2012) was a Welsh actor. Early life The son of an auctioneer and estate agent, Halliday was brought up in Welshpool in Montgomeryshire, and attended Oswestry School in Shropshire. On leaving school ...
, actor (died 2012) **
Timothy Moxon Timothy Napier Moxon (2 June 1924 – 5 December 2006) was an English-born actor, pilot and restaurateur who is probably best known for playing John Strangways, the character who uttered the first dialogue in the first James Bond film '' Dr. No'', ...
, actor (died 2006) * 3 June – Ken Armstrong, English association football player (died 1984) * 5 June –
Rodney Diak Rodney Diak (15 June 1924 – 6 October 2007) was a British film, television, and theater actor He was well known for a string of hit performances on the West End, including '' Goodnight Mrs. Puffin'' and ''Busybody''. Career Rodney Diak was b ...
, actor (died 2007) * 6 June –
John Ambler John Kenneth Ambler (6 June 1924 – 31 May 2008) was a British businessman married to Princess Margaretha of Sweden. Life and work Ambler was born in Sussex. His parents were Captain Charles Ambler (1896–1954) and Louise Gwendolen Cul ...
, businessman (died 2008) * 8 June – Iain Glidewell, lawyer and judge (died 2016) * 9 June **
Tony Britton Anthony Edward Lowry Britton (9 June 1924 – 22 December 2019) was an English actor. He appeared in a variety of films (including ''The Day of the Jackal'') and television sitcoms (including '' Don't Wait Up'' and '' Robin's Nest'' He is the f ...
, actor (died 2019) **
Donald J. West Donald James West (9 June 1924 – 31 January 2020) was a British psychiatrist, parapsychologist and author. Biography He was born in June 1924 in Liverpool, England, and studied medicine at Liverpool University. He did postgraduate work at Lon ...
, psychiatrist and parapsychologist (died 2020) * 17 June **
Edward Downes Sir Edward Thomas ("Ted") Downes, CBE (17 June 1924 – 10 July 2009) was an English conductor, specialising in opera. He was associated with the Royal Opera House from 1952, and with Opera Australia from 1970. He was also well known for his ...
, orchestral conductor (died 2009) **
Archibald Hall Archibald Thomson Hall, also known as Roy Fontaine (17 June 1924 – 16 September 2002) was a Scottish serial killer and thief. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he became known as the Killer Butler or the Monster Butler after committing crimes while ...
, Scottish murderer (died 2002) * 18 June – Thomas Kerr, aerospace engineer (died 2004) * 21 June –
Wally Fawkes Walter Ernest Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Early hist ...
, English-born Canadian jazz clarinetist and cartoonist * 24 June –
Anthony Barrowclough Sir Anthony Richard Barrowclough (24 June 1924 – 3 June 2003) was a lawyer who served as Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner for England, Scotland and Wales (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsma ...
, lawyer and government ombudsman (died 2003) * 27 June –
Bob Appleyard Robert Appleyard (27 June 1924 – 17 March 2015) was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer. He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. ...
, cricketer (died 2015) * 28 June –
Roy Austen-Smith Air Marshal Sir Roy David Austen-Smith, (28 June 1924 – 27 March 2021) was a Royal Air Force air marshal who served as Commander of British Forces Cyprus. RAF career Educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Austen-Smith joined the Royal Air ...
, Royal Air Force officer (died 2021) * 2 July – Francis Wyndham, English author, literary editor and journalist (died 2017) * 3 July **
Gwen Moffat Gwen Mary Moffat (née Goddard; born 3 July 1924) is a British mountaineer and writer. Climbing career Moffat was an Army driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, stationed in North Wales after the end of the Second World War, when she ...
, climber and writer **
Michael Barrington Michael Barrington (3 July 1924 – 5 June 1988) was a British actor best known for his television work. His best remembered role is as the ineffectual Governor Venables in the BBC sitcom ''Porridge'' which featured Ronnie Barker in the lead r ...
, actor (died 1988) * 4 July **
Eric Cockeram Eric Paul Cockeram (4 July 1924 – 25 December 2021) was a British Conservative Party politician. Life and career Cockeram was born on 4 July 1924. He served in the British Army in the Second World War, taking part in the D-Day landings du ...
, politician (died 2021) **
Roy Gibson Roy Gibson (born 4 July 1924) is a former Director General of ESRO, and the first Director General of ESA, serving from 1975 until 1980. Early years Gibson was born in Manchester on 4 July 1924 and educated at Chorlton High School and at the ...
, Director General of ESRO * 6 July **
Brian Stanbridge Air Vice Marshal Sir Brian Gerald Tivy Stanbridge, (6 July 1924 – 12 February 2003) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. RAF career Stanbridge joined the Royal Air Force in 1942 and saw action in the Second World War as a pilot with No. 31 ...
, air force officer (died 2003) **
Jon Wynne-Tyson Jon Linden Wynne-Tyson (6 July 1924 – 26 March 2020) was an English author, publisher, Walters, Kerry S., Portmess, Lisa, 1999, ''Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer'', SUNY Press, p. 233, . Quaker, activist and pacifist, w ...
, publisher, writer and animal rights campaigner (died 2020) * 7 July ** Gordon Bagier, politician (died 2012) ** Jean Valentine, codebreaker (died 2019) * 8 July – Peter Lovell-Davis, publisher and politician (died 2001) * 10 July – Philip Ward, major-general (died 2003) * 11 July –
Charlie Tully Charles Patrick Tully (11 July 1924 – 27 July 1971) was a Northern Irish football player and manager who played for Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peo ...
, footballer (died 1971) * 12 July **
Eve Branson Evette Huntley Branson (née Flindt; 12 July 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a British philanthropist, child welfare advocate, and the mother of Richard Branson. Life and career Branson was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Dor ...
, philanthropist and child welfare advocate (died 2021) ** Irene Sutcliffe, actress (died 2019) * 14 July –
James W. Black Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational d ...
, Scottish-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accord ...
(died 2010) * 15 July **
Peter Armitage Peter Armitage may refer to: * Peter Armitage (statistician) (born 1924), British statistician * Peter Armitage (actor) Peter James Armitage (23 October 1939 – 30 November 2018) was an English television and stage actor best known for his r ...
, statistician specialising in medical statistics ** David Cox, statistician (died 2022) * 24 July –
Vivean Gray Jean Vivra Gray (20 July 1924 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Vivean Gray, also credited as ''Vivian Gray'' and ''Viven Gray'', was an English television and film actress. She starred in the films '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' a ...
, British-born Australian television and film actress (died 2016) * 24 July –
Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby Edward Henry Kenelm Digby, 12th Baron Digby, (24 July 1924 – 1 April 2018), also 6th Baron Digby in the Peerage of Great Britain, was a British peer and British Army (Coldstream Guards) officer. Early life He was the son of the Edward Digby, ...
, peer and Army officer (died 2018) * 29 July –
Arnold Weinstock Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock, Kt. OMRI, (29 July 1924 – 23 July 2002) was an English industrialist and businessman known for making General Electric Company one of Britain's most profitable companies. The City criticized Weinstock for ...
, businessman (died 2002) * 31 July ** Garard Green, actor (died 2004) ** Mary Holt, politician and judge (died 2021) * 1 August – John Clive Ward, English-born physicist, "father of the British H-bomb" (died 2000) * 4 August – Antony Rowe, rower (died 2003) * 6 August –
Winifred Watkins Winifred May Watkins, FRS (6 August 1924 – 3 October 2003) was a British biochemist and academic. She worked at the Imperial College School of Medicine. Early life Watkins was born on 6 August 1924 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England. Origina ...
, biochemist (died 2003) * 7 August **
Kenneth Kendall Kenneth Kendall (7 August 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as ...
, newsreader and presenter (died 2012) **
Helen Taylor Thompson Helen Margaret Taylor Thompson , née Laurie Walker (7 August 1924 – 6 September 2020) was a British aid worker who co-founded Europe's first AIDS hospice. Life Helen served in Special Operations Executive during World War Two, signing the o ...
, social activist (died 2020) * 10 August –
Nancy Buckingham Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer (born 10 August 1924) is a British writer who co-authored over 45 gothic and romance novels in collaboration with her husband, John Sawyer (4 October 1919 – 19 September 1992). She became the eighth elected Chairman ...
, romance novelist * 12 August –
Derek Shackleton Derek Shackleton (12 August 1924 – 28 September 2007) was a Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire and England cricket team, England bowler (cricket), bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket, but onl ...
, cricketer (died 2007) * 15 August – Robert Bolt, playwright and screenwriter (died 1995) * 20 August – John Ellis Williams, writer (died 2008) * 21 August – Gerald David Lascelles, nobleman and cousin of Queen
Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...
(died 1998) * 24 August ** Alyn Ainsworth, musician, singer and conductor (died 1990) ** Jimmy Gardner, actor (died 2010) * 26 August – John Peake, English field hockey player (died 2022) * 30 August – Peter Parker, businessman and railway executive (died 2002) * 31 August –
George Sewell George Sewell (31 August 19242 April 2007) was an English actor, best known for his television roles, but also active on stage and in films. Early life and career The son of a Hoxton printer and a florist, Sewell left school at the age of 14 a ...
, actor (died 2007) * 3 September –
Bob Coats Alfred William "Bob" Coats (3 September 1924, Southall, West London, England – 9 April 2007, Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex, England) was a British economist, economic historian and historian of economic thought. He made important contributions to th ...
, economic historian (died 2007) * 4 September – Joan Aiken, writer (died 2004) * 10 September –
Elizabeth Killick Elizabeth "Betty" Audrey Killick (10 September 1924 – 7 July 2019) was a British naval electronics engineer who worked on radar and weapons systems for the Ministry of Defence. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected a Fellow of t ...
, naval electronics engineer (died 2019) * 14 September –
Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree Arthur Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (14 September 1924 – 1 April 2009) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Early life and Second World War Paul Dean was born in ...
, politician (died 2009) * 21 September **
Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside Edmund Oslac Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (21 September 1924 – 13 January 2020) was a British hereditary peer, who sat in the House of Lords from 1959 to 1999. Prior to entering the Lords, he served in the Royal Navy and worked for Marconi. ...
, hereditary peer, naval officer and businessman (died 2020) **
David Sylvester Anthony David Bernard Sylvester (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particula ...
, art critic (died 2001) * 22 September ** Charles Keeping, illustrator (died 1988) **
Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldw ...
(née Scott), novelist (died 2019) * 23 September –
Vivien Alcock Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books. Life and career Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West Sussex, England, and her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire when she was ten years o ...
, children's writer (died 2003) * 24 September – Lady Mary Whitley, noblewoman (died 1999) * 30 September ** David Snow, ornithologist (died 2009) ** Peter Yarranton, rugby union player (died 2003) * 7 October –
John Hanscomb John Collins Hanscomb CBE (7 October 1924 – 14 February 2019) was a British Conservative politician from the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.John Nelder John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Contributions Nelder's work was infl ...
, statistician (died 2010) * 17 October – David Butler, academic psephologist (died 2022) * 24 October **
Christine Glanville Christine Glanville (born Nancy Christine Fletcher; 28 October 1924 – 1 March 1999) was an English puppeteer who spent much of her professional life contributing to television series produced by Gerry Anderson. Career Glanville became involv ...
, puppeteer (died 1999) **
Ullin Place Ullin Thomas Place (24 October 1924 – 2 January 2000), usually cited as U. T. Place, was a British philosopher and psychologist. Along with J. J. C. Smart, he developed the identity theory of mind. After several years at the University of Ade ...
, philosopher and psychiatrist (died 2000) * 30 October – Norman Bird, actor (died 2005) * 5 November – John Bowen, playwright and novelist (died 2019) * 6 November – William Auld, poet and esperantist (died 2006) * 9 November – John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne, peer and television producer (died 2005) * 18 November – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish judge (died 2000) * 19 November ** William Russell, actor **
Margaret Turner-Warwick Dame Margaret Elizabeth Turner-Warwick (; 19 November 1924 – 21 August 2017) was a British medical doctor and thoracic specialist. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians (1989–1992) and, later, chairman of t ...
, physician and thoracic specialist (died 2017) * 21 November –
Christopher Tolkien Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) was an English academic editor, becoming a French citizen in later life. The son of author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien edited much of his father' ...
, son and editor of the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...
(died 2020) * 29 November ** Margaret Gelling, toponymist (died 2009) **
Arthur Peacocke Arthur Robert Peacocke (29 November 1924 – 21 October 2006) was an English Anglican theologian and biochemist. Biography Arthur Robert Peacocke was born in Watford, England, on 29 November 1924. He was educated at Watford Grammar School fo ...
, theologian and biochemist (died 2006) * 4 December – Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, public servant and writer (died 2017) * 5 December –
John Keston Francis Douglas Arthur Keston (5 December 1924 – 13 February 2022), generally known as John Keston, was a British-born American stage actor and singer who was best known as a world record-breaking runner. Early life Keston was born in Londo ...
, actor, singer and masters athlete (died 2022) * 30 December – Peter Harding, rock climber (died 2007)


Deaths

* 2 January –
Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould ( ; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 ...
, hymnodist, folklorist and novelist (born 1834) * 15 February –
Lionel Monckton Lionel John Alexander Monckton (18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924) was an English composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century. Life and career ...
, musical comedy composer (born 1861) * 22 March – Sir
William Macewen Sir William Macewen, (; 22 June 1848 – 22 March 1924) was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the ''father of neurosurgery'' and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treat ...
, Scottish surgeon (born 1848) * 27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer (born 1841) * 29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (born 1852) * 21 April –
Marie Corelli Mary Mackay (1 May 185521 April 1924), also called Minnie Mackey, and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli (, also , ), was an English novelist. From the appearance of her first novel ''A Romance of Two Worlds'' in 1886, she became the bestsel ...
, novelist (born 1855) * 4 May – E. Nesbit, children's novelist and Fabian socialist (born 1858) * 8/9 June – lost on Everest ** Andrew Irvine, mountaineer (born 1902) **
George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Born in Cheshire, Mallory became a student at Winchester ...
, mountaineer (born 1886) * 23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk-song collector (born 1859) * 13 July –
Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...
, economist (born 1842) * 14 July –
Isabella Ford Isabella Ormston Ford (23 May 1855 – 14 July 1924) was an English social reformer, suffragist and writer. She became a public speaker and wrote pamphlets on issues related to socialism, feminism and worker's rights. After becoming concerned wi ...
, socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (born 1855) * 3 August –
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in t ...
, novelist (born 1857 in Poland) * 15 August –
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, (16 July 1837 – 15 August 1924) was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1901 to 1913. Background and education Knollys was the son of Sir William Thomas Knol ...
, courtier, Private Secretary to King Edward VII (born 1837) * 22 August –
James Acton James Acton (11 October 1848 – 22 August 1924) was an English first-class cricketer. Acton's batting and bowling styles are unknown. Early life He was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 11 October 1848. Career Acton made two first-cla ...
, cricketer (born 1848) * 27 August – Sir
William Bayliss Sir William Maddock Bayliss (2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924) was an English physiologist. Life He was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire but shortly thereafter his father, a successful merchant of ornamental ironwork, moved his family to a ...
, physiologist (born 1860) * 18 September –
F. H. Bradley Francis Herbert Bradley (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher. His most important work was ''Appearance and Reality'' (1893). Life Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England (now part of the Greater ...
, philosopher (born 1846) * 17 October –
Hector C. Macpherson Hector Carsewell Macpherson (16 October 1851 – 17 October 1924) was a prolific Scottish writer and journalist who published books, pamphlets and articles on history, biography, politics, religion, and other subjects. Biography Early ye ...
, Scottish writer and journalist (born 1851) * 18 October – Sir Percy Scott, admiral (born 1853) * 29 October – Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-born American children's novelist (born 1849) * 10 November – Sir Archibald Geikie, geologist (born 1835) * 12 November –
E. D. Morel Edmund Dene Morel (born Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel Deville; 10 July 1873 – 12 November 1924) was a French-born British journalist, author, pacifist and politician. As a young official at the shipping company Elder Dempster, Morel ob ...
, journalist and politician (born 1873 in France) * 20 November –
Ebenezer Cobb Morley Ebenezer Cobb Morley (16 August 1831 – 20 November 1924) was an English sportsman. He is regarded as one of the fathers of the Football Association (FA) and modern football. Early life Morley was born at 10 Garden Square, Princess Street in ...
, sportsman, "father" of the Football Association (born 1831) * 24 November –
Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort Captain Henry Adelbert Wellington FitzRoy Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort JP, DL (19 May 1847 – 24 November 1924), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1853 and Marquess of Worcester between 1853 and 1899, was a British peer. Background and educati ...
, aristocrat (born 1847) * 26 November –
Sir William Acland, 2nd Baronet Admiral Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet, (18 December 1847 – 26 November 1924) was a Royal Navy admiral. Early life William Acland was the eldest son of Sir Henry Acland, 1st Baronet and Sarah Cotton. Career Acland rose to the ...
, admiral (born 1847) * 31 December – Sir Samuel Knaggs, colonial administrator (born 1856)


See also

* List of British films of 1924


References

{{Year in Europe, 1924 Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom