Prize laureate (born 1857) 15 March – Nevil Sidgwick, chemist (born 1873) 19 April – Steve Conway, singer (born 1920) 21 April – Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1889) 6 July – Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, pacifist (born 1878) 6 September – Gertrude Lawrence, actress (born 1898) 29 September – John Cobb, racing car and motorboat driver (born 1899) 30 September – Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, businessman and politician (born 1879) 23 October – Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, politician (born 1857) 28 October – Billy Hughes, Welsh-descended Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862) 15 December – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (born 1860) 19 December – Colonel Sir Charles Arden-Close, cartographer (born 1865) See also 1952 in British music 1952 in British television 1952 in Northern Ireland 1952 in Scotland 1952 in Wales List of British films of 1952 References Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom