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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 16th April

Year	Event	Reference
1734	The Rambling Ringers recorded their first peal with one of Plain Bob Major at Bermondsey.	nv
1737	A "friendly" peal of Minor was rung at St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel by three London Youths, one College Youth and two Eastern Scholars. It was "seven complete Surprise six bell peals", and is the earliest peal of Minor I have recorded.	H&A/363
1868	A peal of Grandsire Triples was rung at West Tofts, Norfolk, composed and conducted by R Wilby, the leader of the Cambridge Youths. The Revd A Sutton rang the tenor to the peal, and this was probably the first occasion when an incumbent rang a peal on his own bells.	RW1941/175
2009	A peal of Yorkshire Surprise Major was rung at St Peter, Drayton by a band, all of whom shared the same birthday - April 16th. This was the first time this had been achieved.	RW2009/637

Birthdays for 16th April

First pealers for 16th April

1894	First peal rung by Joseph J Pratt. Recorded peal total is 123.
1888	First peal rung by Frederick J Cullum_sen. Recorded peal total is 34.
1900	First peal rung by J W Peach. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by Harry [Wotton-Under-Edge] Jones. Recorded peal total is 2.
1900	First peal rung by Sidney [Berkeley] Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by Frederick Oakhill. Recorded peal total is 25.
1900	First peal rung by James F Parker. Recorded peal total is 11.
1900	First peal rung by J Charles Eden. Recorded peal total is 6.
1900	First peal rung by Frederick Protherough. Recorded peal total is 33.
1900	First peal rung by Frederick Candy. Recorded peal total is 7.
1900	First peal rung by Charles J Gillett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1900	First peal rung by F Grafton. Recorded peal total is 2.
1900	First peal rung by Arthur G [Chipping Norton] Newman. Recorded peal total is 8.
1900	First peal rung by Alfred Kirk. Recorded peal total is 8.
1900	First peal rung by Edward F [Raunds] Slade. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by Sidney A Wright. Recorded peal total is 41.
1894	First peal rung by William H Joiner. Recorded peal total is 92.
1903	First peal rung by Edwin H Lewis. Recorded peal total is 272.
1903	First peal rung by Harold S T Richardson. Recorded peal total is 190.
1903	First peal rung by Barnard H Tyrwhitt-Drake. Recorded peal total is 94.
1904	First peal rung by John E Harrington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Edgar W Merchant. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by George Polley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William C Parker. Recorded peal total is 44.
1906	First peal rung by Ernest [Great Hampton] Andrews. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by Harry Brownjohn. Recorded peal total is 46.
1906	First peal rung by Edgar Guise. Recorded peal total is 79.
1906	First peal rung by Charles Rawlings. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by Fred Weeks. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by Harry [Walpole] Hill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by James Dalton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by W [Eaton] Jackson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by T Pearson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by G Singletot. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Harry Lawrence. Recorded peal total is 6.
1910	First peal rung by Albert [Buxted] Hunter. Recorded peal total is 4.
1911	First peal rung by Herbert E Fielding. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by James Garlick. Recorded peal total is 5.
1911	First peal rung by Alfred [Oldham] Waites. Recorded peal total is 12.
1913	First peal rung by Cissie Playle. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Henry G Mason. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Henry [Wordsley] Cooper. Recorded peal total is 6.
1921	First peal rung by Cecil Harman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by T Harold Doar. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Georga A Riches. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by Humphrey B Gardner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1921	First peal rung by Arthur C Langford. Recorded peal total is 4.
1921	First peal rung by Ernest V Beagley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by Richard G French. Recorded peal total is 9.
1921	First peal rung by William Goldfinch. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by George Simpson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1922	First peal rung by Elsie E Pettitt. Recorded peal total is 9.
1925	First peal rung by Lionel Clough. Recorded peal total is 79.
1927	First peal rung by Cecil T Neale. Recorded peal total is 4.
1928	First peal rung by Enos Doddington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Jack Gray. Recorded peal total is 2.
1932	First peal rung by Frank E Blackmore. Recorded peal total is 5.
1932	First peal rung by Henry G Keeley. Recorded peal total is 239.
1932	First peal rung by John E Philbrick. Recorded peal total is 11.
1932	First peal rung by Cuthbert W H Powell. Recorded peal total is 127.
1932	First peal rung by Walter G Sartin. Recorded peal total is 4.
1932	First peal rung by Alan D Steel. Recorded peal total is 88.
1932	First peal rung by Gladys Manchip. Recorded peal total is 47.
1932	First peal rung by Joseph T Pack. Recorded peal total is 32.
1932	First peal rung by Hubert Armitage. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Ralph [Longwood] Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1933	First peal rung by Edwin D Humphries. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by F Charles Humphries. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Harold W Humphries. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by John W Rutland. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by W Richard Beesley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1935	First peal rung by Richard Chambers. Recorded peal total is 17.
1935	First peal rung by Frederick [Preston, Suffolk] Day. Recorded peal total is 8.
1935	First peal rung by John B Hall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1935	First peal rung by Harry Hollocks. Recorded peal total is 4.
1935	First peal rung by Frederick O Hunt. Recorded peal total is 9.
1938	First peal rung by Frank Chaplin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Donald Mitson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Frank Sterry. Recorded peal total is 8.
1948	First peal rung by Wilfred Nicholson. Recorded peal total is 17.
1948	First peal rung by Valerie L A Wallis. Recorded peal total is 6.
1955	First peal rung by John W Kinchin. Recorded peal total is 4.
1955	First peal rung by A Harry Wright. Recorded peal total is 1.
1955	First peal rung by Ann Shiels. Recorded peal total is 3.
1955	First peal rung by John Cruickshank. Recorded peal total is 4.
1955	First peal rung by Michael Eason. Recorded peal total is 1.
1955	First peal rung by Vernon Green. Recorded peal total is 655.
1955	First peal rung by Robert Kemp. Recorded peal total is 3.
1955	First peal rung by Michael A Mills. Recorded peal total is 231.
1955	First peal rung by Percy W Mills. Recorded peal total is 40.
1955	First peal rung by Marian H Wood. Recorded peal total is 90.
1958	First peal rung by Alan D Gargrave. Recorded peal total is 5.
1960	First peal rung by John E Camp. Recorded peal total is 85.
1960	First peal rung by Rosalind K Hicks. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963	First peal rung by Roger Howell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963	First peal rung by Barbara Turner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963	First peal rung by John D Evans. Recorded peal total is 2.
1963	First peal rung by Sandra Ford. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963	First peal rung by Gwen Rogers. Recorded peal total is 2022.
1963	First peal rung by Joyce M Clipstone. Recorded peal total is 4.
1963	First peal rung by Brian Yeomans. Recorded peal total is 2.
1965	First peal rung by Alan Denovan. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Harry S Glover. Recorded peal total is 41.
1965	First peal rung by Geoffrey V Morris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by William S Croft. Recorded peal total is 1395.
1968	First peal rung by James W Wheeler. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Frederick W Sherfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Sally E Stacey. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First peal rung by Avis M Thompson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1969	First peal rung by Edwina A Dixon. Recorded peal total is 3.
1969	First peal rung by Andrew F Windridge. Recorded peal total is 5.
1970	First peal rung by Charles A Milward. Recorded peal total is 6.
1974	First peal rung by E Ann Clinton. Recorded peal total is 55.
1974	First peal rung by Richard W Young. Recorded peal total is 119.
1977	First peal rung by Julian P Richardson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1977	First peal rung by Martin B Hough. Recorded peal total is 666.
1977	First peal rung by John C Basher. Recorded peal total is 5.
1978	First peal rung by Paul Geoghegan. Recorded peal total is 6.
1979	First peal rung by Christopher B Edmunds. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by G James Gardiner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979	First peal rung by Karin Lynn. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Daniel R Riddleston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Robert J Penn. Recorded peal total is 52.
1980	First peal rung by Nicholas D L de Keyser. Recorded peal total is 65.
1980	First peal rung by Timothy M W Stansfeld. Recorded peal total is 17.
1982	First peal rung by Justin A Smith. Recorded peal total is 8.
1982	First peal rung by Robert A Dungey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Rhonda Carr. Recorded peal total is 12.
1983	First peal rung by James S Allen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Kiley V S Threadgold. Recorded peal total is 2.
1983	First peal rung by Roger A Mason. Recorded peal total is 22.
1983	First peal rung by David J Hodge. Recorded peal total is 5.
1983	First peal rung by Kevin L W Newport. Recorded peal total is 3.
1983	First peal rung by H David Bellman. Recorded peal total is 9.
1983	First peal rung by Kathleen D Bellman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1983	First peal rung by Katherine J Eagle. Recorded peal total is 308.
1988	First peal rung by Jennie L Care. Recorded peal total is 18.
1989	First peal rung by Michael S Dann. Recorded peal total is 6.
1989	First peal rung by Paul S Murphy. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Jill Weston. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Ean D Whalley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by David M Towers. Recorded peal total is 2.
1994	First peal rung by David J [Brailsford] Baker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by Mary C Cox. Recorded peal total is 8.
1994	First peal rung by Simon R Crouch. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by David C Potter. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Philip M Burton. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Sarah J Freer. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First peal rung by Graham R Hayward. Recorded peal total is 371.
2001	First peal rung by Simon L R Walton. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First peal rung by Andrew Parry. Recorded peal total is 3.
2001	First peal rung by Alan S M Street. Recorded peal total is 5.
2001	First peal rung by Sian E George. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First peal rung by Katherine R Poole. Recorded peal total is 26.
2004	First peal rung by D Robert C Sworder. Recorded peal total is 147.
2006	First peal rung by Matthew D Warburton. Recorded peal total is 129.
2006	First peal rung by Michael F Royalton-Kisch. Recorded peal total is 28.
2009	First peal rung by Sas Watson. Recorded peal total is 9.
2011	First peal rung by Owen Barraclough. Recorded peal total is 2.
2011	First peal rung by Isabel Hitchings. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First peal rung by Nathaniel Hitchings. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First peal rung by Maureen McBane. Recorded peal total is 2.
2011	First peal rung by Gillian Lloyd Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by Benjamin D White-Horne. Recorded peal total is 26.

First peals in towers for 16th April

1737	First peal on the bells at Whitechapel, St Mary Matfelon, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 95.
1816	First peal on the bells at Longton, Stoke on Trent, St John the Baptist, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 51.
1827	First peal on the bells at Shipley, St Paul, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 112.
1898	First peal on the bells at Clifton, St Mary, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 127.
1900	First peal on the bells at Blockley, SS Peter & Paul, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1900	First peal on the bells at Walmer, St Mary, Kent. Recorded peal total is 20.
1903	First peal on the bells at Great Gaddesden, St John the Baptist, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 41.
1904	First peal on the bells at Hartlepool, St Oswald, Durham. Recorded peal total is 122.
1904	First peal on the bells at Upton, Torquay, St Mary Magdalene, Devon. Recorded peal total is 9.
1906	First peal on the bells at Baptist Mills, Bristol, St Werburgh, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1906	First peal on the bells at Eaton, St Denys, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 26.
1906	First peal on the bells at Walpole St Andrew, St Andrew, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 37.
1921	First peal on the bells at Breaston, St Michael, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 23.
1921	First peal on the bells at Pirbright, St Michael & All Angels, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 19.
1928	First peal on the bells at Kingston Deverill, St Mary, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal on the bells at Great Easton, SS John & Giles, Essex. Recorded peal total is 112.
1955	First peal on the bells at Burgh le Marsh, SS Peter & Paul, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 41.
1977	First peal on the bells at Harraby, Carlisle, St Elisabeth, Cumberland. Recorded peal total is 4.
1988	First peal on the bells at Stoke Gabriel, St Gabriel, Devon. Recorded peal total is 5.
2006	First peal on the bells at Hampstead, Christ Church, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 28.
2011	First peal on the bells at Warden Hill, Cheltenham, St Christopher, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 10.

First peals in method for 16th April

1758	First tower bell peal of Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 78.
1964	First tower bell peal of Hounslow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1966	First tower bell peal of Basing Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1966	First tower bell peal of Boreham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First tower bell peal of Chadkirk Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First tower bell peal of Aldermary Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First tower bell peal of Branodunum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1980	First tower bell peal of Vinovia Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Hayes Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Phyllosan Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Finisterre Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1994	First tower bell peal of Cashmore Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1994	First tower bell peal of Eostre Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Epidii Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Cocacola Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Kangaroo Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Dalby Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
2002	First tower bell peal of Nosleepno Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of St Mark Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
2004	First tower bell peal of Zif Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2005	First tower bell peal of Aldergrove Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2005	First tower bell peal of JJLG Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Rotherham Alliance Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Birnbeck Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Sartoria Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of Upper Boddington Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Buntingford Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Kenilworth Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Roker Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.