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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 18th April

Year	Event	Reference
1737	The Painswick band rang 12,006 changes of Grandsire Caters in 7 hours and 55 minutes. This peal extended their own record, set up just over two years earlier, but was fewer changes than the Norwich peal. See March 1, 1735 and March 8, 1737.	nv
1775	Paul Revere made his ride on this day to warn the rebels of the approach of the English army. See January 1, 1735.	nv
1890	The first recording of bells ever made took place on this day at St Martins-in-the-Fields. The Society of Royal Cumberland Youths rang Stedman Cinques, Treble Twelve, Queens and firing so Mr J H Fosset, of the Edison Phonograph Company, could make some trial recordings on one of the four machines in England at that time.	nv
1894	The record length of Double Norwich Court Bob Major was rung at Romford, Essex by the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths. The 13,440 changes, composed and conducted by George Newson, took 8 hours and 16 minutes to ring. The band had made an attempt the previous month at Brentwood, but lost the peal due to a rope breaking only two minutes from the end. See March 26, 1894 and April 3, 1899.	nv
1900	Herbert E Audsley rang his one-thousandth peal, becoming the twentieth person to achieve this objective. See January 31, 1900, August 18, 1987 and January 10, 1920.	PPR
1916	Sir A P Heywood died. See December 25, 1849.	nv
1927	The Lancashire Association rang 17,824 changes of Oxford Treble Bob Major at Heptonstall in 10 hours and 51 minutes, composed by T B Worsley and conducted by Edward Jenkins. This was the nineteenth time a band had rung more than 15,000 changes and is still the record length in the method.	RW1927/259

Birthdays for 18th April

1882	F Stedman Poole born
1963	Timothy M Younger born

First pealers for 18th April

1881	First peal rung by Frederick G Newman. Recorded peal total is 122.
1890	First peal rung by Albert Liittle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by Thomas [Whitchurch] Owen. Recorded peal total is 3.
1890	First peal rung by William [Tredington] James. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by William [Tredington] Russell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by William [Tredington] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1891	First peal rung by Harry [Barnes] Barrett. Recorded peal total is 44.
1891	First peal rung by George H Daynes. Recorded peal total is 297.
1891	First peal rung by William G Grove. Recorded peal total is 49.
1891	First peal rung by Richard Faux. Recorded peal total is 8.
1891	First peal rung by Thomas Verry. Recorded peal total is 36.
1892	First peal rung by Ernest J Woodley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1892	First peal rung by Charles Giles. Recorded peal total is 235.
1892	First peal rung by John H Maskell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1892	First peal rung by Edward Harris. Recorded peal total is 39.
1892	First peal rung by William Stannett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1892	First peal rung by Evered J Walsom. Recorded peal total is 59.
1892	First peal rung by George W Sorrell. Recorded peal total is 24.
1892	First peal rung by William [Great Baddow] Head. Recorded peal total is 1.
1892	First peal rung by Harry Sharman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1892	First peal rung by Walter [Wombourn] Hammond. Recorded peal total is 2.
1894	First peal rung by Louis Bacon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1894	First peal rung by Charles Scrutton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1898	First peal rung by C Cleveland Ellis. Recorded peal total is 27.
1899	First peal rung by Albert Brooks. Recorded peal total is 47.
1901	First peal rung by Timothy Braddock. Recorded peal total is 2.
1901	First peal rung by H C Nettle. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Jesse J Arbon. Recorded peal total is 10.
1903	First peal rung by James Perry. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by John W Beckwith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1903	First peal rung by Thomas [Leicester] Curtis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1904	First peal rung by L N Corden. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by T Buswell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by Arthur T Collinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by James McCracken. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Walter [Sittingbourne] Dobbie. Recorded peal total is 3.
1910	First peal rung by Walter Moore. Recorded peal total is 2.
1913	First peal rung by Samuel Morris. Recorded peal total is 4.
1913	First peal rung by Harold Oddy. Recorded peal total is 8.
1913	First peal rung by John [Deane] Platt. Recorded peal total is 2.
1913	First peal rung by Arthur Bindley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by John [Scunthorpe] Cuthbert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by William [Overbury] Payne. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Edward H Spice. Recorded peal total is 51.
1914	First peal rung by Alfred Cann. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Frederic Colman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Thomas Hembling. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by William [Laxfield] Hollingsworth. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Frederic Warren. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by John Eric Ellis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Charles [Caldicot] King. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Godfrey L Stafford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1914	First peal rung by Charles Vincent. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Frederick Woods. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by George Gibbard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Amos Gregory. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by John Heritage. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by James Marriott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by John [Launton] Massey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Herbert Timms. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920	First peal rung by Sydney Furze. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by Frank Ruffles. Recorded peal total is 99.
1922	First peal rung by Kathleen Jackson. Recorded peal total is 12.
1922	First peal rung by Frederick Newsome. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by William J L Newton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Alfred Parnell. Recorded peal total is 20.
1922	First peal rung by G Mark Coe. Recorded peal total is 3.
1922	First peal rung by Joseph [Thurlaston] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 56.
1922	First peal rung by Arthur Waters. Recorded peal total is 9.
1922	First peal rung by William L Newton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Albert [Caldicot] Thomas. Recorded peal total is 12.
1925	First peal rung by Cecil M Beckley. Recorded peal total is 5.
1925	First peal rung by Thomas W Hopson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1925	First peal rung by Rowland Huskisson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal rung by Christopher Thomas. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal rung by John [Phillack] Wood. Recorded peal total is 9.
1927	First peal rung by William [Kenwyn] Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by Lance Perrin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal rung by David G Williams. Recorded peal total is 4.
1927	First peal rung by J [Seale] Beagley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by A Court. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by Charles [Seale] Newman. Recorded peal total is 5.
1929	First peal rung by Jack Lintern. Recorded peal total is 13.
1929	First peal rung by Frederick J Pound. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Leonard E A Davies. Recorded peal total is 8.
1931	First peal rung by Henry [Nottingham] Rogers. Recorded peal total is 18.
1931	First peal rung by Sydney Ashworth. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Ernest Parkinson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick [Tipton] Holden. Recorded peal total is 14.
1931	First peal rung by J Dennis Holden. Recorded peal total is 232.
1931	First peal rung by Leonard Holden. Recorded peal total is 8.
1931	First peal rung by Stanley J Worsfold. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by John J L Gilbert. Recorded peal total is 500.
1931	First peal rung by Miss M Higgins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick W Farmer_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Reginald W Rowe. Recorded peal total is 31.
1931	First peal rung by Mildred Turley. Recorded peal total is 84.
1934	First peal rung by Clifford J Pugsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Fred C Boote. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Sidney S Scattergood. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by Anthony A Brackley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Roland W Edwards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by Robert W R Percy. Recorded peal total is 53.
1937	First peal rung by Ron Rayfield. Recorded peal total is 5.
1937	First peal rung by Charles A Savage. Recorded peal total is 3.
1938	First peal rung by James [Yorkshire] Hodgson. Recorded peal total is 5.
1938	First peal rung by Arthur James. Recorded peal total is 10.
1938	First peal rung by William Silverwood. Recorded peal total is 2.
1938	First peal rung by Gordon W Dale. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Frederick J Absolom. Recorded peal total is 3.
1938	First peal rung by Edward G Higgins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Richard T Sargent. Recorded peal total is 3.
1938	First peal rung by Norman J Spokes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by James H G Hume. Recorded peal total is 2.
1938	First peal rung by Ronald H Lawrance. Recorded peal total is 5.
1938	First peal rung by Edward W Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1945	First peal rung by Marjorie E Ward. Recorded peal total is 3.
1945	First peal rung by Robert A Ward. Recorded peal total is 9.
1945	First peal rung by Arthur C Walsh. Recorded peal total is 10.
1948	First peal rung by Charles H Davis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948	First peal rung by Kitchener Hill. Recorded peal total is 3.
1948	First peal rung by Sidney J Daniels. Recorded peal total is 60.
1948	First peal rung by Diana E Rayner. Recorded peal total is 4.
1949	First peal rung by Claire D Causley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1949	First peal rung by Jean S S Durrant. Recorded peal total is 2.
1949	First peal rung by Albert W Knight. Recorded peal total is 18.
1949	First peal rung by Frank Phillips. Recorded peal total is 1.
1949	First peal rung by Clifford [Goathurst] Thomas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1949	First peal rung by Frederick G Burrows. Recorded peal total is 2.
1949	First peal rung by William [Ballylesson] Webb. Recorded peal total is 1.
1949	First peal rung by Kenneth J Edge. Recorded peal total is 2.
1949	First peal rung by Reginald Hill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1949	First peal rung by Kenneth G Spiers. Recorded peal total is 8.
1951	First peal rung by Kenneth Roberts. Recorded peal total is 2.
1952	First peal rung by Michael W Fairey. Recorded peal total is 212.
1952	First peal rung by Alec G Isaacson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1952	First peal rung by Derek Preece. Recorded peal total is 6.
1953	First peal rung by Edgar Thorley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Ian M Holland. Recorded peal total is 1240.
1953	First peal rung by Frederick R Mason. Recorded peal total is 4.
1953	First peal rung by C Michael Orme. Recorded peal total is 1259.
1953	First peal rung by Peter Jarvis. Recorded peal total is 15.
1953	First peal rung by W Reginald Curtis. Recorded peal total is 150.
1958	First peal rung by Peter A Wakeman. Recorded peal total is 8.
1958	First peal rung by A Victor Sheppard. Recorded peal total is 3.
1958	First peal rung by John Welch_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First peal rung by Marcus P Barton. Recorded peal total is 61.
1959	First peal rung by Margaret Godwin. Recorded peal total is 3.
1959	First peal rung by C Roy George. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First peal rung by Keith Morris. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First peal rung by R Pauline Holland. Recorded peal total is 66.
1959	First peal rung by John Robinson. Recorded peal total is 1319.
1959	First peal rung by Douglas H Bott. Recorded peal total is 7.
1959	First peal rung by John Gentleman. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First peal rung by Winifred M Ivings. Recorded peal total is 27.
1959	First peal rung by Ann [Forton] Tyler. Recorded peal total is 4.
1959	First peal rung by Susan J Reed. Recorded peal total is 3.
1960	First peal rung by Percy Squires. Recorded peal total is 9.
1960	First peal rung by Geoffrey C Rix. Recorded peal total is 203.
1960	First peal rung by Alan Gardner. Recorded peal total is 73.
1960	First peal rung by Peter E Corderoy. Recorded peal total is 18.
1960	First peal rung by Leonard F Cox. Recorded peal total is 28.
1960	First peal rung by John H Napper. Recorded peal total is 1034.
1960	First peal rung by J Rodney Pagdin. Recorded peal total is 81.
1963	First peal rung by John E Ellison. Recorded peal total is 6.
1964	First peal rung by Christine J Turner. Recorded peal total is 9.
1964	First peal rung by Clare F Jakeman. Recorded peal total is 73.
1964	First peal rung by James [Northchurch] Lawson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by Sarah Boswell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Jeffrey T Turner. Recorded peal total is 7.
1964	First peal rung by Gillian M Brearley. Recorded peal total is 49.
1964	First peal rung by Juliet S Stoy. Recorded peal total is 59.
1964	First peal rung by L Evans. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Stanley W Illidge. Recorded peal total is 26.
1964	First peal rung by Jack [Chetwynd] Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Gilbert Butler. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by Juliet Stamper. Recorded peal total is 4.
1965	First peal rung by Frank J Lee. Recorded peal total is 44.
1965	First peal rung by Brother Austin_SSF. Recorded peal total is 99.
1965	First peal rung by Christina M Bouldin. Recorded peal total is 5.
1965	First peal rung by Roger C Button. Recorded peal total is 12.
1965	First peal rung by Roderick H Glover. Recorded peal total is 10.
1965	First peal rung by Martin E Harrisson. Recorded peal total is 44.
1965	First peal rung by Patrick A Harrisson. Recorded peal total is 25.
1966	First peal rung by Henry J Rossell. Recorded peal total is 31.
1966	First peal rung by Phil R Huntbach. Recorded peal total is 4.
1966	First peal rung by Kenneth Salisbury. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by Richard L Underwood. Recorded peal total is 248.
1966	First peal rung by Paul C Hassan. Recorded peal total is 7.
1968	First peal rung by Kathryn R Lloyd. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by G Malcolm Hall. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First peal rung by Sylvia N Hall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Brian W Rhodes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by T Roy Hart. Recorded peal total is 32.
1970	First peal rung by Patrick Neill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Margaret S Judge. Recorded peal total is 21.
1970	First peal rung by Andrew Stott. Recorded peal total is 32.
1970	First peal rung by Brian J Owen. Recorded peal total is 763.
1970	First peal rung by Donald C H Owen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Kirsty R Fisher. Recorded peal total is 2.
1970	First peal rung by Paul R Lindly. Recorded peal total is 3.
1970	First peal rung by Malcolm P Taylor. Recorded peal total is 888.
1970	First peal rung by B Anne Poole. Recorded peal total is 31.
1970	First peal rung by Michael J Peet. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Winifred Pretty. Recorded peal total is 3.
1970	First peal rung by Frank Sluter. Recorded peal total is 143.
1971	First peal rung by Clive B Moore. Recorded peal total is 331.
1971	First peal rung by Molly Baverstock. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971	First peal rung by Margaret Coward. Recorded peal total is 5.
1974	First peal rung by B James Carter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Paul R Harris. Recorded peal total is 5.
1974	First peal rung by Julie M Peters. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Ann L Steed. Recorded peal total is 20.
1974	First peal rung by Janet E Towlson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First peal rung by Julia W Lockton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Gillian H Knox. Recorded peal total is 314.
1979	First peal rung by Michael Le-Surf. Recorded peal total is 2.
1980	First peal rung by Jane S Bryant. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by Sally Lees. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Mary [Victoria BC] Barlow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Alan H Batten. Recorded peal total is 2.
1982	First peal rung by Roger Dancey. Recorded peal total is 3.
1982	First peal rung by Faith Magwood. Recorded peal total is 9.
1982	First peal rung by David W Oliver. Recorded peal total is 6.
1989	First peal rung by Jonathan Le Bihan. Recorded peal total is 24.
1991	First peal rung by Darren T Mosley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1995	First peal rung by Keith M Denison. Recorded peal total is 18.
1995	First peal rung by Sheila E Denison. Recorded peal total is 9.
1998	First peal rung by Martin Farrington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by Lesley M Purden. Recorded peal total is 3.
1998	First peal rung by Tina Branscombe. Recorded peal total is 28.
1998	First peal rung by Philip A Burton. Recorded peal total is 74.
1998	First peal rung by Mark P Banner. Recorded peal total is 9.
1998	First peal rung by Leigh A Lawson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1999	First peal rung by Kerry Walsh. Recorded peal total is 3.
2004	First peal rung by Heather Strafford. Recorded peal total is 2.
2009	First peal rung by Jonathan P Daniels. Recorded peal total is 21.
2009	First peal rung by Charlotte G E Meader. Recorded peal total is 2.
2009	First peal rung by Felicity J C Webster. Recorded peal total is 6.
2009	First peal rung by Eleanor G Fiddy. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Peter W Charnley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First peal rung by Andrew S Green. Recorded peal total is 9.
2015	First peal rung by Omer Angel. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Al Rossin. Recorded peal total is 6.

First peals in towers for 18th April

1870	First peal on the bells at Hardwicke, St Nicholas, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 37.
1901	First peal on the bells at Watermoor, Cirencester, Holy Trinity, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 102.
1907	First peal on the bells at Hawarden, St Deiniol, Flintshire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1914	First peal on the bells at Laxfield, All Saints, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 35.
1914	First peal on the bells at Whetstone, St Peter, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 124.
1914	First peal on the bells at Whissendine, St Andrew, Rutland. Recorded peal total is 31.
1920	First peal on the bells at Ashbrittle, St John the Baptist, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 35.
1927	First peal on the bells at Hessett, St Ethelbert, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal on the bells at Llangynwyd, St Cynwyd, Glamorgan. Recorded peal total is 34.
1927	First peal on the bells at Old Brampton, SS Peter & Paul, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 25.
1936	First peal on the bells at Repton, St Wystan, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 55.
1936	First peal on the bells at Wainfleet St Mary, St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 9.
1938	First peal on the bells at Giggleswick in Craven, St Alkelda, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 25.
1949	First peal on the bells at Ballylesson, Drumbo, Holy Trinity, Down. Recorded peal total is 68.
1949	First peal on the bells at Norton juxta Malton, St Peter, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 41.
1959	First peal on the bells at North Wheatley, SS Peter & Paul, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 19.
1968	First peal on the bells at Gaddesby, St Luke, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 15.
1970	First peal on the bells at Askrigg, St Oswald, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 6.
1970	First peal on the bells at Aysgarth, St Andrew, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 7.

First peals in method for 18th April

1897	First tower bell peal of Kent Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 636.
1936	First tower bell peal of Hughenden Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1936	First tower bell peal of Killamarsh Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 8.
1959	First tower bell peal of Ilkeston Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963	First tower bell peal of Penzance Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1965	First tower bell peal of Debenham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1972	First tower bell peal of Exminster Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First tower bell peal of Luffield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Apsley Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1991	First tower bell peal of Rest Dodd Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Grundisburgh Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Hill Brow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Sproxcheston Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Hambleton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First tower bell peal of Leybourne Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1999	First tower bell peal of Ulm Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First tower bell peal of Oxford Treble Bob Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Eliza Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2012	First tower bell peal of St Andrew's Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of White Star Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of The Gloucester Regiment 28th, 61st Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Cottingham Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of 90th Birthday Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Rocket Pole Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.