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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 21st March

Year	Event	Reference
1733	The College Youths rang the first peal of 5094 Double Grandsire Caters at St Brides, Fleet Street. Benjamin Annable conducted it.	CY31
1763	George Meakins conducted a peal of 6072 Double Grandsire Cinques at St Brides, Fleet Street for the College Youths.	CY110
1851	A district band went to Low Moor, Yorks and rang 10,080 Kent Treble Bob Major in 6 hours and 2 minutes, conducted by J Barraclough.	nv
1874	The Devonshire Guild founded.	nv
1927	A ten-year old lad by the name of Robert Stafford rang the treble to a peal of Plain Bob Major at Whitley Bay.	nv
1987	An attempt for 25,000 changes of Stedman Caters at Edenham, Lincs was brought round after 9,928 changes in 5 hours and 45 minutes due to the indisposition of one of the ringers.	nv

Birthdays for 21st March

1886	Horace [Hemel Hempstead] Floyd born

First pealers for 21st March

1896	First peal rung by Louis Attwater. Recorded peal total is 97.
1899	First peal rung by Edward J [Bishopgate] Webb. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Arthur Cooper`. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by Charles [Todmorden] Barker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by Heyworth Barker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by John Crowther. Recorded peal total is 4.
1903	First peal rung by John E Rowland. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Thomas Ascroft. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by William H Ascroft. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by James Chadwick. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Frank Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 2.
1903	First peal rung by Joseph Tattersfield. Recorded peal total is 2.
1904	First peal rung by Percy Bayley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Edward [Gawsworth] Johnson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1904	First peal rung by Samuel Robinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Mark Stanway. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William Riley. Recorded peal total is 42.
1908	First peal rung by John W Russell. Recorded peal total is 11.
1908	First peal rung by William [Dibden] Chambers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by William Chambers_sen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by William [Dibden] Rawlings. Recorded peal total is 4.
1908	First peal rung by William [Dibden] Robson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1908	First peal rung by Albert Cottrell. Recorded peal total is 5.
1908	First peal rung by William F [Reigate] Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1911	First peal rung by William [Oldbury] Ford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by Albert Wagg. Recorded peal total is 4.
1913	First peal rung by Harry Piggins. Recorded peal total is 4.
1914	First peal rung by Victor [Kidlington] Webb. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by W Brantford Webster. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Richard Williamson_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920	First peal rung by E [Chipstable] Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by William [Ludlow] Harris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by Walter E Enticknap. Recorded peal total is 4.
1925	First peal rung by J Richard Chaundy. Recorded peal total is 55.
1925	First peal rung by Harry Blee. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Arthur F Putland. Recorded peal total is 6.
1925	First peal rung by William E Ringrose. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Harry Paul. Recorded peal total is 3.
1927	First peal rung by Robert S Stratford. Recorded peal total is 8.
1928	First peal rung by George [Brierley Hill] Davies. Recorded peal total is 8.
1928	First peal rung by Walter Linter. Recorded peal total is 14.
1931	First peal rung by John D Bell. Recorded peal total is 13.
1931	First peal rung by Charles Boyce. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by George W Hewitt. Recorded peal total is 3.
1931	First peal rung by Ernest Pickles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Harold Pickles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Alan Garner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Herbert Beadle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by W Milton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Reginald C H Connolly. Recorded peal total is 47.
1934	First peal rung by Maggie J Johnson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by Alec Eggington. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Frank [Black Torrington] Jennings. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Harry Morton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Walter Stevens. Recorded peal total is 27.
1939	First peal rung by Jack Appleton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Fred Stenson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Reginald J Wallis. Recorded peal total is 22.
1952	First peal rung by Harry Valters. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Daphne M Weston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Neville Whitney. Recorded peal total is 9.
1952	First peal rung by Marjorie Gorton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by E John Trueman. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953	First peal rung by Pamela Willes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953	First peal rung by Hugh Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Peter R Morris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Betty McKane. Recorded peal total is 3.
1955	First peal rung by Ruth A Carey. Recorded peal total is 13.
1955	First peal rung by Robin A Hodgson. Recorded peal total is 101.
1955	First peal rung by Margaret H Twidale. Recorded peal total is 3.
1959	First peal rung by Roger J Lumley. Recorded peal total is 104.
1960	First peal rung by Michael J [Swindon] Stanley. Recorded peal total is 56.
1963	First peal rung by William J Day. Recorded peal total is 16.
1963	First peal rung by Christine L Mason. Recorded peal total is 7.
1964	First peal rung by Peter Lain. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Mary E Dunbavin. Recorded peal total is 1699.
1965	First peal rung by Barrie Warnes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Edmund A McElroy. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Sarah Scott. Recorded peal total is 2.
1969	First peal rung by John Yeates. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by John E Preston. Recorded peal total is 8.
1970	First peal rung by Margaret Forder. Recorded peal total is 28.
1970	First peal rung by Clive B Allen. Recorded peal total is 14.
1970	First peal rung by Roger Pengelly. Recorded peal total is 12.
1970	First peal rung by Richard S K Salisbury. Recorded peal total is 28.
1970	First peal rung by Graham Hudson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1975	First peal rung by Jonathan C Bradford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First peal rung by Alyson K Frary. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Ian Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Timothy R Shillabeer. Recorded peal total is 5.
1981	First peal rung by J Ann Brassington. Recorded peal total is 10.
1981	First peal rung by Peter J Ablitt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Robin Rowley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Randall R Perrey. Recorded peal total is 7.
1982	First peal rung by Kathleen P Botting. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Pamela K Emy. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986	First peal rung by Lawrence Jordan. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Diane J Reynolds. Recorded peal total is 30.
1986	First peal rung by Alan [Merstham] Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Claire J Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Helen W Webb. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal rung by Stephen Butterfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Mary E Horrocks. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Sharon Bacon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by J Graham Beaumont. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987	First peal rung by Philip M Dunn. Recorded peal total is 42.
1987	First peal rung by Penny J Pidd. Recorded peal total is 70.
1987	First peal rung by Janet L Bly. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by J Peter Rothwell. Recorded peal total is 10.
1987	First peal rung by Helen R Barsby. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal rung by Andrew G Richman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1988	First peal rung by Tanya E Wheeler. Recorded peal total is 46.
1992	First peal rung by Simon J Ridley. Recorded peal total is 603.
1992	First peal rung by Eleanor E Pridgeon. Recorded peal total is 6.
1996	First peal rung by Ian Anderson. Recorded peal total is 8.
1996	First peal rung by Christopher J Wedlake. Recorded peal total is 9.
1998	First peal rung by Yvonne Cairns. Recorded peal total is 23.
1998	First peal rung by Michelle Greener. Recorded peal total is 3.
1998	First peal rung by David C Cragg. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by Ian O Partridge. Recorded peal total is 127.
1998	First peal rung by Adrian S Woodcock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First peal rung by Kathryn M Goodhew. Recorded peal total is 2.
1999	First peal rung by Mark H Harding. Recorded peal total is 9.
1999	First peal rung by Tony J Martin. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First peal rung by Michael J Price. Recorded peal total is 3.
2015	First peal rung by William J Lloyd. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 21st March

1773	First peal on the bells at Kensington, St Mary Abbots, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 287.
1885	First peal on the bells at Harlow, St Mary the Virgin, Essex. Recorded peal total is 47.
1904	First peal on the bells at Gawsworth, St James, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 32.
1908	First peal on the bells at Frensham, St Mary the Virgin, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 118.
1908	First peal on the bells at Llanover, St Bartholomew, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 21.
1908	First peal on the bells at Queensbury, Holy Trinity, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 148.
1920	First peal on the bells at Chipstable, All Saints, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 22.
1923	First peal on the bells at London, Smithfield, St Bartholomew the Great, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 8.
1925	First peal on the bells at Broomfield, St Mary, Essex. Recorded peal total is 26.
1931	First peal on the bells at Henlow, St Mary, Bedfordshire. Recorded peal total is 280.
1936	First peal on the bells at Black Torrington, St Mary, Devon. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal on the bells at St Martin by Looe, St Martin of Tours, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 9.
1953	First peal on the bells at Maiden Bradley, All Saints, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 10.
1970	First peal on the bells at Frampton, St Mary, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 5.
1998	First peal on the bells at Sherford, St Martin, Devon. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in method for 21st March

1733	First tower bell peal of Double Grandsire Caters. Recorded peal total is 4.
1928	First tower bell peal of Lightfoot Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 14.
1948	First tower bell peal of Withyham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 13.
1979	First tower bell peal of Neon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1981	First tower bell peal of Segedunum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First tower bell peal of Little Bectone Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First tower bell peal of Londinium Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First tower bell peal of Prestwick Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First tower bell peal of Chepstow Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Lochranza Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Parisi Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1994	First tower bell peal of Yaiza Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1997	First tower bell peal of Marston Trussell Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Lufkin Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First tower bell peal of Thorverston Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1999	First tower bell peal of Walkden Little Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First tower bell peal of Shipshape Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Waynflete Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Rievaulx Abbey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2010	First tower bell peal of Evening Star Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2013	First tower bell peal of Winchester Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014	First tower bell peal of Gav Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Heckington Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.