title: 1926 in British television
text: # 1926 in British television
  
  This is a list of British television related events in 1926.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 26 January – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates his pioneering greyscale mechanical television system (which he calls a "televisor") at his London laboratory for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 25 January – Richard Davies, Welsh actor (died 2015)
  * 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comedy actor (died 1988)
  * 8 May – David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster
  * 13 May – Eric Morecambe, comedy performer (died 1984)
  * 21 October – Leonard Rossiter, comedy actor and writer (died 1984)
  * 31 October – Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, television presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)
  * 30 November – Sydney Lotterby, comedy producer (died 2020)
  * 19 December – Stephen Lewis, comedy actor (On the Buses) (died 2014)
  