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Events from the year 1925 in the United Kingdom.

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1 May - Cyprus becomes a Crown Colony.^[1]
29 May - Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.
2 October - Introduction of London's first double decker buses.^[2]
30 October - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.^[2]
3 December - Settlement of last remaining border disputes between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.^[1]
10 December - Austen Chamberlain wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the Locarno Pact.^[3]
16 December - Construction of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey begins.^[4]

7 January - Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (died 1995)
17 February - Ron Goodwin, composer and conductor (died 2003)
21 March - Peter Brook, film director
23 March - David Watkin, cinematographer
2 April - George MacDonald Fraser, author (died 2008)
12 April - Oliver Postgate, animator, puppeteer and writer (died 2008)
22 April - George Cole, actor
3 June - Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow (died 2001)
28 July - John Stonehouse, government minister noted for faking his own death (died 1988)
30 July - Alexander Trocchi, writer (died 1984)
12 August
- Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (died 2004)
- Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (died 1975)
27 August - Nat Lofthouse, footballer
8 September - Peter Sellers, comedian and actor (died 1980)
23 September - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (died 2006)
13 October - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
16 October - Angela Lansbury, actress
17 October - Harry Carpenter, boxing commentator
31 October - John Pople, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
10 November - Richard Burton, actor (died 1984)
11 November - June Whitfield, actress
27 November
- John Maddox, science writer
- Ernie Wise, comedian (died 1999)

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 365–366. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1925
^ "Merseytravel". http://www.merseytravel.net/information_tunnel_history.html. Retrieved 2008-04-07.