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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 5th December

Year	Event	Reference
1863	John Gill Holroyd called a 10,000 of Kent Treble Bob Royal at Bradford, Yorks, in 6 hours and 24 minutes.	BN1883/160
1890	Heywood's transposition of Thurstan's peal of Stedman Triples was rung for the first time, conducted by Benjamin Tugden at Duffield. It was once regarded as the best practical peal in the method, although tastes change with the passage of time.	nv
1931	Celebrations took place in Cambridge for the tercentenary of the birth of Fabian Stedman. Ringers throughout the land had contributed to the restoration of the tower, frame and bells of St. Bene't's, Cambridge.	nv
1936	In the friendly competition with the Cheshire ringers to ring the greatest number of Minor methods to a peal the Lincolnshire group at Algarkirk took the record up to 70 methods. Vernon Taylor was the conductor. See September 5, 1936 and June 12, 1937.	nv
1981	Members of the London County Association rang 13,409 Grandsire Caters at All Saints, Isleworth, in 7 hours and 56 minutes. The peal was composed and conducted by James Belshaw and was specially rung to surpass a previous peal by members of the same association 144 years earlier.	nv

Birthdays for 5th December

1865	John W Jones born

First pealers for 5th December

1885	First peal rung by John [Gloucester] Austin. Recorded peal total is 382.
1885	First peal rung by Richard T Hibbert. Recorded peal total is 295.
1893	First peal rung by Charles E Read. Recorded peal total is 96.
1900	First peal rung by Harry Waygood. Recorded peal total is 5.
1901	First peal rung by John Moth. Recorded peal total is 20.
1903	First peal rung by David D Denman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by George Packham. Recorded peal total is 12.
1903	First peal rung by W Harry Packham. Recorded peal total is 7.
1903	First peal rung by Albert W Clarke. Recorded peal total is 2.
1905	First peal rung by G Copper. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William R Hodder. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by Francis W [Hallow] Neate. Recorded peal total is 25.
1906	First peal rung by Thomas [Bathford] Roberts. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by A Corlin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by B Brewer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Ebenezer A Hull. Recorded peal total is 6.
1908	First peal rung by Frederic C Rice. Recorded peal total is 7.
1908	First peal rung by Thomas Seymour. Recorded peal total is 6.
1908	First peal rung by George [Newport] Roberts. Recorded peal total is 5.
1908	First peal rung by Cecil Groves. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by George W [Kidlington] Beesley. Recorded peal total is 7.
1908	First peal rung by Herbert E Beesley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Victor J F Bennett. Recorded peal total is 90.
1909	First peal rung by William [Rodmell] Green. Recorded peal total is 1.
1909	First peal rung by J B Hawksford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Albert Downes. Recorded peal total is 5.
1922	First peal rung by Edwin Everatt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Alfred Jeffery. Recorded peal total is 6.
1926	First peal rung by Arthur [Cheadle] Plant. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by G Thomas Baker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1930	First peal rung by Reginald G Mockridge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Walter Williams. Recorded peal total is 5.
1931	First peal rung by George H Limmer. Recorded peal total is 48.
1931	First peal rung by George Allard. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Howard N Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Francis L Barnes. Recorded peal total is 5.
1931	First peal rung by John Lampitt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Philip [Babcary] Burton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Cyril Eades. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Edward Eades. Recorded peal total is 2.
1932	First peal rung by Horace Fox. Recorded peal total is 28.
1933	First peal rung by William Catlow. Recorded peal total is 2.
1933	First peal rung by Jackson Pickup. Recorded peal total is 3.
1933	First peal rung by Frank J Green. Recorded peal total is 18.
1933	First peal rung by Harry O Read. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Donald N Jennings. Recorded peal total is 40.
1936	First peal rung by Howard Sams. Recorded peal total is 6.
1936	First peal rung by Charles A Webb. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by Violet M Marsh. Recorded peal total is 3.
1936	First peal rung by Thomas C Tilley. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by Henry McCabe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by John W Benton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by A Gerald Gaunt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948	First peal rung by C John Piper. Recorded peal total is 31.
1949	First peal rung by Harry Blackburn. Recorded peal total is 30.
1949	First peal rung by Ian O Campbell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Stanley W Dash. Recorded peal total is 6.
1950	First peal rung by Peter V Harrup. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950	First peal rung by Ralph Newell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Michael Hollowell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Audrey L Harrison. Recorded peal total is 11.
1953	First peal rung by Peter R Sanders. Recorded peal total is 57.
1953	First peal rung by Ernest E Bray. Recorded peal total is 73.
1953	First peal rung by Eunice D Overend. Recorded peal total is 29.
1953	First peal rung by Malcolm S Owen. Recorded peal total is 4.
1953	First peal rung by Frederick E Day. Recorded peal total is 25.
1953	First peal rung by John F Murfin. Recorded peal total is 647.
1953	First peal rung by Gillian E Brown. Recorded peal total is 10.
1955	First peal rung by Frank A Barrett. Recorded peal total is 99.
1959	First peal rung by Bryn Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First peal rung by Arthur Kinsey. Recorded peal total is 4.
1959	First peal rung by Charles W Glanville. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First peal rung by David Eames. Recorded peal total is 51.
1959	First peal rung by Alan R Knight. Recorded peal total is 6.
1960	First peal rung by A David Leach. Recorded peal total is 210.
1962	First peal rung by Leslie N S Smith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by W Gordon Marsh. Recorded peal total is 74.
1964	First peal rung by Malcolm Ferrier. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Alan A Wild. Recorded peal total is 2.
1965	First peal rung by J Mary Eyres. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Carol A Long. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Catherine A Salter. Recorded peal total is 25.
1968	First peal rung by Harold J Dobbin. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968	First peal rung by Marie Donovan. Recorded peal total is 181.
1969	First peal rung by Nicholas J Webber. Recorded peal total is 9.
1970	First peal rung by James W Yates. Recorded peal total is 122.
1970	First peal rung by Robert G Aitchison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Linda Robson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Margaret Croysdill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Ernest F Putt. Recorded peal total is 8.
1970	First peal rung by Geoffrey J Tyler. Recorded peal total is 148.
1970	First peal rung by Anthony A Allsopp. Recorded peal total is 2.
1970	First peal rung by Michael C Allsopp. Recorded peal total is 8.
1970	First peal rung by Stephen A Allsopp. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970	First peal rung by David A Hiorns. Recorded peal total is 334.
1970	First peal rung by Roger J Knight. Recorded peal total is 87.
1970	First peal rung by Malcolm Quimby. Recorded peal total is 709.
1971	First peal rung by Janet C Cooke. Recorded peal total is 7.
1931	First peal rung by George T Allard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1973	First peal rung by Hugh G Collins. Recorded peal total is 22.
1976	First peal rung by Deidre Horan. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Martyn Harris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by M Andrew Todd. Recorded peal total is 8.
1979	First peal rung by Susan J Longridge. Recorded peal total is 8.
1981	First peal rung by Jacqueline A Hands. Recorded peal total is 37.
1981	First peal rung by Keith J Wallace. Recorded peal total is 4.
1981	First peal rung by Russell J Dumphreys. Recorded peal total is 17.
1981	First peal rung by Georgina L Lewis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Nigel Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Christopher D O'Mahony. Recorded peal total is 952.
1981	First peal rung by Clive Buswell. Recorded peal total is 247.
1983	First peal rung by Rowena L Marshall. Recorded peal total is 425.
1987	First peal rung by Rachel Baxter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Nicola Jakeman. Recorded peal total is 10.
1987	First peal rung by Alan C Driver. Recorded peal total is 5.
1987	First peal rung by James W Jack. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First peal rung by Darren R Moore. Recorded peal total is 498.
1988	First peal rung by J Lynne Williams. Recorded peal total is 12.
1989	First peal rung by Nash L Gooderham. Recorded peal total is 4.
1989	First peal rung by Samantha F Jeff. Recorded peal total is 20.
1989	First peal rung by Ginette S Pardoe. Recorded peal total is 33.
1990	First peal rung by John R Brunsdon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Kevin T Mattock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Anthony J Rowan. Recorded peal total is 230.
1992	First peal rung by Gill Jolly. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Michael A Skinner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Peter D Boniface. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Michael O Esbester. Recorded peal total is 26.
1992	First peal rung by E Gillian Hales. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First peal rung by Michael J Kerton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Helen Scrivener. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Rorick P Houghton. Recorded peal total is 81.
1992	First peal rung by Maureen Lowe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First peal rung by Alistair J E Smith. Recorded peal total is 151.
1993	First peal rung by Emma J Welch. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First peal rung by Mark A Clifford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by Tom Crouch. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First peal rung by Paul A Bradley. Recorded peal total is 79.
1998	First peal rung by Andrew P Brewster. Recorded peal total is 159.
1999	First peal rung by Peter Arkley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First peal rung by Andrew D Belcher. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001	First peal rung by Monica L Churchill. Recorded peal total is 3.
2004	First peal rung by Susan M Tobbell. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Stephanie E Hills. Recorded peal total is 47.
2009	First peal rung by Steve Smith. Recorded peal total is 5.
2012	First peal rung by Alex Hosking. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Nicola Adams. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Stephen J Evans. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Kira Chase. Recorded peal total is 84.
2015	First peal rung by Emily A Kaplan. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 5th December

1823	First peal on the bells at Norwich, St Andrew, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 9.
1891	First peal on the bells at Goring by Sea, St Mary, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 9.
1903	First peal on the bells at Hemingford Abbots, St Margaret of Antioch, Huntingdonshire. Recorded peal total is 39.
1903	First peal on the bells at Winscombe, St James the Great, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 35.
1908	First peal on the bells at Collingham, St Oswald, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 124.
1909	First peal on the bells at Rodmell, St Peter, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal on the bells at Cheddon Fitzpaine, Blessed Virgin Mary, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 4.
1934	First peal on the bells at Ludham, St Catherine, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 5.
1953	First peal on the bells at Lanteglos by Fowey, St Wyllow, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First peal on the bells at Church Gresley, SS George & Mary, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 37.
1964	First peal on the bells at Pluckley, St Nicholas, Kent. Recorded peal total is 24.

First peals in method for 5th December

1935	First tower bell peal of Melbourne Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 21.
1938	First tower bell peal of Loughborough Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1949	First tower bell peal of Leicestershire Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 4.
1953	First tower bell peal of Christleton Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First tower bell peal of Double Glasgow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 11.
1969	First tower bell peal of Turkish Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First tower bell peal of Lockington Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 28.
1983	First tower bell peal of E=mc2 Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1983	First tower bell peal of Galloway Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Real Stedman Minimus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First tower bell peal of Netherstreet Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1986	First tower bell peal of Zephyranthes Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 9.
1987	First tower bell peal of Roker Park Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First tower bell peal of Stepney Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First tower bell peal of Amadeus Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Dane End Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1992	First tower bell peal of Pilais Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Uga Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1995	First tower bell peal of Gunthorpe Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1998	First tower bell peal of Hoath Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Junction 31 Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of Double Cambridge Cyclic Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of Lazyboy Camp Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2003	First tower bell peal of New Deane Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Zzyzx Springs Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2008	First tower bell peal of Bedale Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2008	First tower bell peal of Cymru Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Iceland Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
2009	First tower bell peal of Wolsey Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of Ormerod Road Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of The Ditch Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Little Bytham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Eynesbury Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Great Kingshill Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Sgurr an Lochan Uaine Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of City of Culture Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014	First tower bell peal of Cotterstock Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.