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Bill Butler has agreed to supply his collection of events that happened on this day. These complement the automated extracts from PealBase.

Bill Butler's Events for 24th February

Year	Event	Reference
1736	An early peal of Grandsire Triples at St Martin-in-the-Fields, "Prickt and call'd by John Denmead".	nv
1784	The Trinity Youths rang a double length peal at Lewisham, Kent. Samuel Manley conducted 10,080 Plain Bob Major in 6 hours and 33 minutes.	TYPB
1846	William Snowdon born, the third son of the Revd John Snowdon, Vicar of Ilkley, Yorks. Like his brother, Jasper, he trained as an engineer and, later joined Jasper's practice as a consulting engineer. After Jasper's early death William took over his papers and continued his work on the theory and history of ringing, researching and publishing new titles as well as revising and updating the earlier books. He was a practical ringer but his great contribution to the Exercise was in the maintenance of The Snowdon Series of textbooks. See September 17, 1915.	nv
1872	Charles A Fox conducted 10,176 Kent Treble Bob Major at Earlsheaton, Yorks in 6 hours and 10 minutes.	BN1883/160
1877	A gentleman by the name of George Harrison obtained a special injunction to prevent the bells of St Mark's, Philadelphia from being rung at any time other than the three Sunday services.	nv
1912	A handbell peal in ten Doubles methods was rung on this day by two brothers, John and Thomas Perry, the former ringing the treble, second and third. No conductor was given. Although no mention was made of it in “Odd Changes”, the two had rung a previous peal of Grandsire Doubles ten years earlier. See February 3, 1902.	RW1912/146

Birthdays for 24th February

1875	William H Hollier born

First pealers for 24th February

1945	First peal rung by Robert A Cochrane. Recorded peal total is 13.
1945	First peal rung by Harold A May. Recorded peal total is 250.
1924	First peal rung by William H Coles. Recorded peal total is 104.
1945	First peal rung by Dorothy E Osborne. Recorded peal total is 52.
1930	First peal rung by Cyril J Watts. Recorded peal total is 22.
1951	First peal rung by Edgar Buxton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1951	First peal rung by Harry Rowlands. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Robin [Eastham] Thompson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by William C Ward. Recorded peal total is 4.
1951	First peal rung by James [Great Dalby] Webb. Recorded peal total is 5.
1951	First peal rung by Roy Stevens. Recorded peal total is 5.
1951	First peal rung by Derek A Walsh. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by John Harris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Richard Harris. Recorded peal total is 39.
1953	First peal rung by Leslie Maynard. Recorded peal total is 9.
1953	First peal rung by Rupert Stedman. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953	First peal rung by Arthur E Webb. Recorded peal total is 6.
1954	First peal rung by Michael C Carter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Alan Edwards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Eileen Meadows. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First peal rung by John S Still. Recorded peal total is 2.
1960	First peal rung by June N E Chilton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Frank W E Carter. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Kathleen M Exell. Recorded peal total is 18.
1962	First peal rung by Suzanne Fovargue. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First peal rung by Barry Spring. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First peal rung by Leslie Burrow. Recorded peal total is 3.
1962	First peal rung by James Martin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Christopher E J Rudderham. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First peal rung by Shirley Bolton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1962	First peal rung by Rodney A Yeates. Recorded peal total is 173.
1962	First peal rung by David Breakspear. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First peal rung by Keith Young. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Robert Peers. Recorded peal total is 238.
1960	First peal rung by John F Oultram. Recorded peal total is 167.
1963	First peal rung by Philip J Daniel. Recorded peal total is 21.
1963	First peal rung by David J Etchells. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by Christopher J Head. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Coleen Prictoe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by Sheila [Sydmonton] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Angela J Smart. Recorded peal total is 15.
1966	First peal rung by Julia M Sanders. Recorded peal total is 9.
1968	First peal rung by Helen Spiller. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Walter H Spiller. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Ronald G Pike. Recorded peal total is 23.
1968	First peal rung by Richard D Brain. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Nicholas J R Fardon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Mary B Suthers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Margaret A Chennell-White. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Paul S Gale. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Walter R Gilks. Recorded peal total is 6.
1968	First peal rung by Christopher A Clarke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First peal rung by Robert G Baldock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1971	First peal rung by David J Wooler. Recorded peal total is 25.
1973	First peal rung by Colin Davies. Recorded peal total is 402.
1973	First peal rung by Derek G Gordon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Andrew [Blofield] King. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Patrick L H Brooke. Recorded peal total is 641.
1974	First peal rung by Julian Morgan. Recorded peal total is 687.
1976	First peal rung by David Franklin. Recorded peal total is 228.
1966	First peal rung by Anita E Kirkman. Recorded peal total is 70.
1977	First peal rung by James W Mumford. Recorded peal total is 12.
1979	First peal rung by Graham R J Davis. Recorded peal total is 38.
1982	First peal rung by Paul Verney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by J K Randolph Ellis. Recorded peal total is 7.
1979	First peal rung by Erica M Murray. Recorded peal total is 3.
1973	First peal rung by Linda J Sager. Recorded peal total is 42.
1987	First peal rung by David W R Stevenson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1990	First peal rung by Eric Chater. Recorded peal total is 3.
1990	First peal rung by Paul Timmel. Recorded peal total is 14.
1990	First peal rung by Peter I Haslam. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Grahame Tucker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Margaret Wortham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Daniel P D Braddell. Recorded peal total is 8.
1991	First peal rung by Christopher S Huxley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1991	First peal rung by A Paul White. Recorded peal total is 3.
1992	First peal rung by Helen J Cavanagh. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Helen L Phenix. Recorded peal total is 19.
1996	First peal rung by Martin G R Pearson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Ian W Rodrick. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996	First peal rung by Robin G Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First peal rung by Andrew P Thackeray. Recorded peal total is 289.
2001	First peal rung by Joan Warren. Recorded peal total is 17.
2002	First peal rung by Sarah A Taylor. Recorded peal total is 8.
2004	First peal rung by Roberta T L Fairclough. Recorded peal total is 10.
2004	First peal rung by Clive R Southgate. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by Mark T Weaver. Recorded peal total is 6.
2007	First peal rung by Emma R Greenhill. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Ian W Dodds. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Robert F Short. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Niamh Fairbrother-Browne. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Bernard P Quinn. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 24th February

1730	First peal on the bells at Farnham, St Andrew, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 216.
1784	First peal on the bells at Beighton, Sheffield, St Mary, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 16.
1866	First peal on the bells at Nottingham, All Saints, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 72.
1877	First peal on the bells at Denholme, St Paul, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 42.
1877	First peal on the bells at Harborne, St Peter, Warwickshire. Recorded peal total is 210.
1903	First peal on the bells at Dulverton, All Saints, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 31.
1914	First peal on the bells at Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, St James, Northumberland. Recorded peal total is 16.
1951	First peal on the bells at Mobberley, St Wilfrid, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 21.
1960	First peal on the bells at Sarratt, Holy Cross, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 20.
1962	First peal on the bells at Durston, St John the Baptist, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963	First peal on the bells at Dolton, St Edmund King & Martyr, Devon. Recorded peal total is 4.
1974	First peal on the bells at Ridlington, SS Mary Magdalene & Andrew, Rutland. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal on the bells at Potterton, Butterywells Farm, Aberdeenshire. Recorded peal total is 22.
1995	First peal on the bells at Parc, Bala, Campanile, Merioneth. Recorded peal total is 3.

First peals in method for 24th February

1786	First tower bell peal of Treble Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 6.
1877	First tower bell peal of Woodbine Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 12.
1900	First tower bell peal of St Stephen's Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1911	First tower bell peal of St Clement's College Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 56.
1934	First tower bell peal of Staffordshire Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 47.
1959	First tower bell peal of Adderbury Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1973	First tower bell peal of Otterspool Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1973	First tower bell peal of Over Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 12.
1977	First tower bell peal of Northfield Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 4.
1984	First tower bell peal of Glasow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1990	First tower bell peal of Benhall Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Brightwell Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Carnoustie Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Botcheston Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Parklands Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1995	First tower bell peal of Turks Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996	First tower bell peal of Poyntz on the front Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First tower bell peal of Vertis Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Ovretone Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Frisebie Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Lulsgate Bottom Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001	First tower bell peal of Upcott Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
2001	First tower bell peal of Whitfield Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Whitwick Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Indexer Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2006	First tower bell peal of Hazel Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Dashing Erudition Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Egham Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Fielder Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of Piddle Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of Quinag Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.