1932 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

Events

* 8 January - The Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorces.
* 26 January - British submarine HMS M2 sinks with all 50 hands.
* 4 February–15 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.
* 1 March - Import Duties Act 1932 re-establishes protective trade tariffs.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 375-376|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 15 March - First broadcast from the newly opened BBC Broadcasting House.
* 6 April - Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.
* 23 April - The Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 10 May - James Chadwick discovers the neutron. [ "The Existence of the Neutron", By J. Chadwick, F.R.S., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 136, p. 692-708]
* 12 July - Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
* 30 July–14 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
* 22 August - First experimental television broadcast by the BBC.
* October
** Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.
** Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
* 30 October - Marches by the unemployed in London lead to several violent clashes with police.
* 14 November - Book tokens go on sale in the UK.
* 10 December
** John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in "The Forsyte Saga". [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1932/ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932] ]
** Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons". [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1932/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932] ]
* 19 December - The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting.
* 25 December - King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message.

Undated

* Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes "The Causes of Evolution" and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "Peril at End House".
* Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel "Sunset Song".
* Stella Gibbons' novel "Cold Comfort Farm".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World".
* John Cowper Powys' novel "A Glastonbury Romance".
* Evelyn Waugh's novel "Black Mischief".

Births

* 29 January
** Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958)
** George Allen, footballer
* 1 February - John Nott, polictian
* 27 February - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
* 25 April - William Roache, actor ("Coronation Street")
* 26 April - Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (doed 2000)
* 8 May - Phyllida Law, actress
* 19 May - Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
* 30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician
* 18 June - Geoffrey Hill, poet
* 22 June - Prunella Scales, actress
* 25 June - Peter Blake, artist
* 29 June - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord
* 6 August - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
* 17 August - V. S. Naipaul, writer
* 20 August - Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
* 4 September - Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
* 7 September - Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000)
* 11 September - Peter Anderson, footballer
* 27 September - Michael Colvin, politician (died 2000)
* 8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
* 10 October - Harry Smith, footballer
* 15 November - Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
* 20 November - Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host
* 21 November - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
* 24 December - Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000)
* 28 December - Roy Hattersley, politician

Deaths

* 21 January - Giles 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)
* 26 April - William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868)
* 6 July - Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859)
* 16 September - Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857)

References

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