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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 15th April

Year	Event	Reference
1827	10,080 Plain Bob Major was rung at St Michael, Croston in 5 hours and 28 minutes, conducted by Thomas Broderick. The record concludes: "We, the undersigned professors of the art, having assembled for the purpose and heard the whole of the peal, can testify it was a fine struck peal."
1882	The Worcester and Districts Association rang their first peal with one of Kent Treble Bob Major at Bromsgrove, Worcs.	nv
1963	Robert B Smith conducted 11,552 changes of Superlative Surprise Major at St Peter, Ashton-under-Lyne in 6 hours and 52 minutes, surpassing the previous record length rung on January 29, 1927 by 300 changes.	nv
2007	Eight members of the Marchbank family rang a peal with one of Grandsire Triples at Greasley, Notts, conducted by Trevor W Marchbank.	RW2007/469

Birthdays for 15th April

1954	Paul N Mounsey born

First pealers for 15th April

1890	First peal rung by George Pilling. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by Frederick Sanders. Recorded peal total is 4.
1890	First peal rung by James H Banks. Recorded peal total is 70.
1890	First peal rung by O [Helmshore] Eastwood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by R B Howarth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by E Pickup. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by Henry J Steff. Recorded peal total is 30.
1890	First peal rung by A Stiff. Recorded peal total is 1.
1890	First peal rung by W [Helmshore] Stiff. Recorded peal total is 1.
1893	First peal rung by John [Romford] Dale. Recorded peal total is 51.
1893	First peal rung by William Steed. Recorded peal total is 78.
1895	First peal rung by James M Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Albert Rought. Recorded peal total is 78.
1895	First peal rung by John H Preston. Recorded peal total is 24.
1895	First peal rung by John W Steddy. Recorded peal total is 118.
1895	First peal rung by Thomas Tabrett. Recorded peal total is 12.
1895	First peal rung by Herbert J Skelt. Recorded peal total is 149.
1895	First peal rung by Daniel Greening. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Frederick [Holmes Lacy] Johnson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Andrew Layton. Recorded peal total is 33.
1895	First peal rung by Harry C Young. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Bertram Bidnell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by William [Otley] Hunt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Richard Trigg. Recorded peal total is 5.
1899	First peal rung by John Ashford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1899	First peal rung by George [Southampton] Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1899	First peal rung by William Allder. Recorded peal total is 1.
1899	First peal rung by Hugh W Herrington. Recorded peal total is 6.
1899	First peal rung by George W Mee. Recorded peal total is 78.
1899	First peal rung by Edgar Rivers. Recorded peal total is 103.
1899	First peal rung by Alfred R Woollard. Recorded peal total is 2.
1899	First peal rung by William Hine. Recorded peal total is 1.
1899	First peal rung by Frederick Norris. Recorded peal total is 8.
1899	First peal rung by George Sells. Recorded peal total is 12.
1902	First peal rung by C Spreag. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Alfred Osman. Recorded peal total is 14.
1903	First peal rung by B B Baker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by E A Hopkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Richard Gould. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Henry [Wraxall] Windsor. Recorded peal total is 6.
1905	First peal rung by William Allison. Recorded peal total is 9.
1905	First peal rung by Ernest W Smithers. Recorded peal total is 3.
1907	First peal rung by James Bartram. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by James [Eye] Stannard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Alfred Brewer. Recorded peal total is 3.
1914	First peal rung by Thomas W Rowley. Recorded peal total is 10.
1914	First peal rung by Samuel F Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by Joseph Bowerman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by John G Beckford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by Edwin W Cartlidge. Recorded peal total is 3.
1930	First peal rung by G E Rex Chapman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by George W Chapman. Recorded peal total is 2.
1933	First peal rung by Eric Tyas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Charles M Clarke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by William J Coppard. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by A Cramp. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by W Stokes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by G Stubbs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by F [Cottesmore] Walker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by H [Cottesmore] Walker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by J W Walker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by Harold Morwood. Recorded peal total is 29.
1939	First peal rung by Wilfrid F Moreton. Recorded peal total is 1363.
1939	First peal rung by Donald T Meager. Recorded peal total is 17.
1939	First peal rung by Henry Pearson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Ronald H Pearson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Leonard F Stonton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by William Byard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by William R Webster. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Frank N Bastin. Recorded peal total is 8.
1939	First peal rung by William E Pidsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Sidney H Seager. Recorded peal total is 2.
1944	First peal rung by Edward H Preston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by George E Porter. Recorded peal total is 3.
1947	First peal rung by Leslie G Jupp. Recorded peal total is 3.
1947	First peal rung by Charles G Stoner. Recorded peal total is 6.
1947	First peal rung by Clifford Booth. Recorded peal total is 4.
1947	First peal rung by Albert Ellis. Recorded peal total is 5.
1947	First peal rung by Benjamin Stepney. Recorded peal total is 23.
1947	First peal rung by William E Stepney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by John R Flint. Recorded peal total is 7.
1950	First peal rung by Jack Merrifield. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950	First peal rung by David J King. Recorded peal total is 292.
1950	First peal rung by Jacqueline S King. Recorded peal total is 344.
1950	First peal rung by John J Sims. Recorded peal total is 12.
1950	First peal rung by John Beardmore. Recorded peal total is 35.
1950	First peal rung by Arthur Gaunt. Recorded peal total is 9.
1950	First peal rung by John W D Seymour. Recorded peal total is 11.
1950	First peal rung by Clifford Aaron. Recorded peal total is 10.
1950	First peal rung by Thomas S Bowles. Recorded peal total is 21.
1952	First peal rung by Margaret de Jong. Recorded peal total is 4.
1952	First peal rung by David G Thorne. Recorded peal total is 208.
1952	First peal rung by Roger Woodcock. Recorded peal total is 7.
1953	First peal rung by Desmond G Mitchell. Recorded peal total is 5.
1955	First peal rung by Alice E J Lester. Recorded peal total is 128.
1955	First peal rung by Percy Bray. Recorded peal total is 18.
1955	First peal rung by George Wareham. Recorded peal total is 14.
1958	First peal rung by Raymond G Jones. Recorded peal total is 34.
1961	First peal rung by John C Wane. Recorded peal total is 34.
1961	First peal rung by Derek J White. Recorded peal total is 13.
1961	First peal rung by Mary E White. Recorded peal total is 23.
1961	First peal rung by Robert J Wyatt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by David F Jefferies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Derek A Cork. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Christopher H Macve. Recorded peal total is 25.
1961	First peal rung by Ann Hancock. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Cecilia J Bland. Recorded peal total is 8.
1961	First peal rung by Alan R Baldock. Recorded peal total is 1207.
1963	First peal rung by Christopher C Brown. Recorded peal total is 11.
1963	First peal rung by Sheila M Walpole. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by Barry R Eglesfield. Recorded peal total is 329.
1967	First peal rung by Edwin T Dibble. Recorded peal total is 16.
1967	First peal rung by Alan [Tanfield] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 4.
1967	First peal rung by Keith M Talbot. Recorded peal total is 3.
1967	First peal rung by Ann H Whaley. Recorded peal total is 7.
1967	First peal rung by Gale M Starkie. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Valerie A Copleston. Recorded peal total is 3.
1967	First peal rung by David E Potter. Recorded peal total is 693.
1967	First peal rung by Janet A Pullen. Recorded peal total is 4.
1967	First peal rung by David H Ralls. Recorded peal total is 403.
1967	First peal rung by Barbara Hollis. Recorded peal total is 15.
1967	First peal rung by Kevin A Hughes. Recorded peal total is 137.
1967	First peal rung by Richard L Jones. Recorded peal total is 405.
1967	First peal rung by Robert J Kite. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Howard J Payne. Recorded peal total is 5.
1967	First peal rung by Patricia A Winch. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by E Ann Kilgour. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Martin Povey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Anne C Cooke. Recorded peal total is 27.
1969	First peal rung by S Elaine Barrie. Recorded peal total is 2.
1969	First peal rung by Christine M Abbott. Recorded peal total is 2.
1972	First peal rung by Robert H Hume. Recorded peal total is 8.
1972	First peal rung by Margaret H Mees. Recorded peal total is 2.
1972	First peal rung by Sheila F Dalton. Recorded peal total is 34.
1972	First peal rung by Heather S Peattie. Recorded peal total is 10.
1972	First peal rung by John [Fulham] Harvey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by James B Dutton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1972	First peal rung by Robert Nightingale. Recorded peal total is 12.
1972	First peal rung by Jonathan D Shanklin. Recorded peal total is 584.
1972	First peal rung by Malcolm M Brown. Recorded peal total is 13.
1974	First peal rung by Robert J Fearnett. Recorded peal total is 20.
1974	First peal rung by Donald Copeman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1974	First peal rung by Helen L Ashburn. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Ann [Dorset] Smith. Recorded peal total is 5.
1978	First peal rung by Richard J Bates. Recorded peal total is 7.
1978	First peal rung by Garry V Thorp. Recorded peal total is 4.
1978	First peal rung by Stephanie Crossley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978	First peal rung by Ruth Goulding. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by David W Reynolds. Recorded peal total is 5.
1979	First peal rung by Christine E Terry. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979	First peal rung by Sara L Osborne. Recorded peal total is 2.
1983	First peal rung by James R Humphries. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Susannah K Pomphrey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Linda J Prior. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Bridget M Dunn. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First peal rung by Karen L Weatherer. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First peal rung by Robert G Withey. Recorded peal total is 6.
1989	First peal rung by Hazel L Meeking. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Richard Wheeler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Michael R Butcher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Andrew C Pickett. Recorded peal total is 31.
1989	First peal rung by Graham J Wright. Recorded peal total is 971.
1990	First peal rung by Alison L Loydall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1993	First peal rung by Andrew J Monk. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Rosemary Chesshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Ian W Cole. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First peal rung by Adam Colby. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First peal rung by Thomas J A Bishop. Recorded peal total is 23.
2000	First peal rung by Simon Grubb. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First peal rung by Diane M Faux. Recorded peal total is 406.
2000	First peal rung by Nicholas A Faux. Recorded peal total is 16.
2004	First peal rung by Ken J Dyer. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First peal rung by Christopher R Rogers. Recorded peal total is 2.
2004	First peal rung by Daniel P Rogers. Recorded peal total is 3.
2009	First peal rung by Mark E Tittley. Recorded peal total is 18.
2014	First peal rung by Saskia L Frisby. Recorded peal total is 10.
2017	First peal rung by Rachel Attaway. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Peter S J Bailey. Recorded peal total is 2.
2023	First peal rung by Catherine S Knight. Recorded peal total is 3.
2026	First peal rung by Corrie Darling. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 15th April

1754	First peal on the bells at Sheffield, SS Peter & Paul, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 468.
1782	First peal on the bells at Otley, All Saints, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 118.
1845	First peal on the bells at Rickinghall Superior, St Mary, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 46.
1866	First peal on the bells at Hunslet, Leeds, St Mary the Virgin, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 41.
1895	First peal on the bells at Benhilton, Sutton, All Saints, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 54.
1895	First peal on the bells at Holme Lacy, St Cuthbert, Herefordshire. Recorded peal total is 67.
1899	First peal on the bells at Hintlesham, St Nicholas, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 38.
1899	First peal on the bells at Twyford, St Mary the Virgin, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 16.
1939	First peal on the bells at Grayshott, St Luke, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 50.
1950	First peal on the bells at Iffley, Oxford, St Mary, Oxfordshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1989	First peal on the bells at Swerford, St Mary, Oxfordshire. Recorded peal total is 18.
2001	First peal on the bells at Otford, St Bartholomew, Kent. Recorded peal total is 10.

First peals in method for 15th April

1747	First tower bell peal of New Trebles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1754	First tower bell peal of Allwood's Delight. Recorded peal total is 1.
1859	First tower bell peal of Prince Albert Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1952	First tower bell peal of Pontefract Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First tower bell peal of Longney Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1961	First tower bell peal of Norton-le-Moors Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First tower bell peal of St Simon's Bob Caters. Recorded peal total is 4.
1972	First tower bell peal of Hurworth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1977	First tower bell peal of Ashleworth Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First tower bell peal of Brigantia Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Evening Star Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First tower bell peal of Cuba Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1989	First tower bell peal of Kirkton Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Zanthi Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Eskimo Blue Day Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of St Philip's Little Surprise Cinques. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Peonnum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Melrose Abbey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of St David's Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Allwood's Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Chippinghurst Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Quodlibet Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Ramsbury Bitter Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Diamond Jubilee Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2013	First tower bell peal of Ruby Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Hallam Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.