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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 14th April

Year	Event	Reference
1884	On this day the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths made an attempt on the record length of Stedman Caters at Fulham, conducted by John Nelms. It came to grief after 6 hours and 33 minutes due to two bells crossing over.	nv
1906	The first peal of Plain Bob Major in Ireland was rung at Arklow, conducted by James W Washbrook.	nv
1928	An attempt to ring 22,096 changes of Double Norwich Court Bob Major at Heptonstall failed after 18,360 changes had been rung.	nv

Birthdays for 14th April

1891	Arnold Austin born

First pealers for 14th April

1894	First peal rung by Reginald Bond. Recorded peal total is 7.
1894	First peal rung by Frederick S W Butler. Recorded peal total is 33.
1894	First peal rung by Henry W Kirton. Recorded peal total is 123.
1894	First peal rung by Robert T Lakin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1894	First peal rung by George [Edenham] Wilson. Recorded peal total is 7.
1894	First peal rung by Horace Adams. Recorded peal total is 14.
1884	First peal rung by John Grater. Recorded peal total is 3.
1884	First peal rung by John Grater_jun. Recorded peal total is 3.
1884	First peal rung by Richard Grater_jun. Recorded peal total is 12.
1898	First peal rung by A A Barber. Recorded peal total is 1.
1898	First peal rung by H Robert Cobbin. Recorded peal total is 17.
1901	First peal rung by W H Bonsey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1901	First peal rung by Samuel Goodwin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by William C Dowding. Recorded peal total is 296.
1903	First peal rung by G Boaden. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by S G Burge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by Henry A Phillips. Recorded peal total is 6.
1903	First peal rung by T [Exton] Phillips. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by W [Exton] Phillips. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Bert Carter. Recorded peal total is 7.
1911	First peal rung by Thomas Busby. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by Ernest Boylin. Recorded peal total is 15.
1913	First peal rung by William Dowler. Recorded peal total is 5.
1914	First peal rung by William A Bolton. Recorded peal total is 8.
1917	First peal rung by Frederick Boreham. Recorded peal total is 21.
1917	First peal rung by Stanley [Lavenham] Smith. Recorded peal total is 6.
1920	First peal rung by May Lowson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920	First peal rung by Samuel [Barton upon Humber] Wood. Recorded peal total is 8.
1923	First peal rung by Arthur A Corbyn. Recorded peal total is 10.
1923	First peal rung by Charles S Spurgeon. Recorded peal total is 6.
1923	First peal rung by Robert A Warman. Recorded peal total is 25.
1923	First peal rung by Harry Tomlinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by George L Grover. Recorded peal total is 131.
1926	First peal rung by Anthony Marvin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Samuel Brett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1928	First peal rung by Alfred T M Perry. Recorded peal total is 16.
1928	First peal rung by E William Richardson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1928	First peal rung by Arthur T [Great Dunmow] Smith. Recorded peal total is 13.
1931	First peal rung by Thomas McHale. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Timothy J Anderson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1931	First peal rung by Wilfred Kitchen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Michael Pullman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1934	First peal rung by Robert Holmes. Recorded peal total is 3.
1934	First peal rung by Joan Pearce. Recorded peal total is 7.
1934	First peal rung by William [Duffield] Baker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1934	First peal rung by Arthur Husbands. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Michael G Wheat. Recorded peal total is 13.
1934	First peal rung by Clifford Williams. Recorded peal total is 5.
1934	First peal rung by Ronald Bowness. Recorded peal total is 15.
1934	First peal rung by Marjorie Holdstock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Edward Latchford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by Albert Ash. Recorded peal total is 2.
1937	First peal rung by Frederick Ware. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by George [Scottow] Bell. Recorded peal total is 11.
1937	First peal rung by Jean Bell. Recorded peal total is 8.
1939	First peal rung by T Leslie Walley. Recorded peal total is 34.
1944	First peal rung by Frederick R Harris. Recorded peal total is 850.
1944	First peal rung by Ronald H Mewies. Recorded peal total is 19.
1948	First peal rung by Raymond Jones. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948	First peal rung by John [Kingsland] Wood. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950	First peal rung by Alan Evans. Recorded peal total is 52.
1950	First peal rung by Martin Irwin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by R Ann Clarke. Recorded peal total is 4.
1951	First peal rung by John [Abson] Ferris. Recorded peal total is 5.
1951	First peal rung by William H Young. Recorded peal total is 2.
1951	First peal rung by Richard Davies. Recorded peal total is 10.
1951	First peal rung by F John Pert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Marie Bailey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by R Michael Barnett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1952	First peal rung by Alan Briscoe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Henry Douglas. Recorded peal total is 5.
1952	First peal rung by Alan V Edwards. Recorded peal total is 5.
1952	First peal rung by Margaret Rushton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by John B [Montmorency] Willis. Recorded peal total is 5.
1952	First peal rung by Leonard J North. Recorded peal total is 57.
1952	First peal rung by Ian P Mcewan. Recorded peal total is 7.
1952	First peal rung by Roy Powell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by John D Nixon. Recorded peal total is 157.
1956	First peal rung by Thomas Taplin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by Alan Sharples. Recorded peal total is 181.
1956	First peal rung by Frederick W Ellis. Recorded peal total is 171.
1956	First peal rung by John E Ewer. Recorded peal total is 165.
1956	First peal rung by Michael D Frost. Recorded peal total is 104.
1956	First peal rung by Gerald Penney. Recorded peal total is 1125.
1956	First peal rung by Michael J Thomas. Recorded peal total is 452.
1962	First peal rung by Elizabeth J Etherington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Edwin J Borley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Lynda J Coope. Recorded peal total is 4.
1962	First peal rung by William [Oldswinford] Butler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Cyril W J Beeching. Recorded peal total is 39.
1962	First peal rung by David L Cawley. Recorded peal total is 70.
1962	First peal rung by Leonard G Gates. Recorded peal total is 5.
1962	First peal rung by John L Gee. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First peal rung by Roger H Steer. Recorded peal total is 3.
1962	First peal rung by A Catherine Rooke. Recorded peal total is 5.
1962	First peal rung by Alan D Elsmore. Recorded peal total is 303.
1962	First peal rung by Bruce Forsyth. Recorded peal total is 9.
1962	First peal rung by Terence B Richardson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Margaret J Hope. Recorded peal total is 49.
1962	First peal rung by Percy Watkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by Helen Dracup. Recorded peal total is 2.
1966	First peal rung by Frank R Rich. Recorded peal total is 2.
1966	First peal rung by Edward C Samways. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by Martin R Bolton. Recorded peal total is 8.
1968	First peal rung by Douglas Carruthers. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968	First peal rung by Ruth Curtis. Recorded peal total is 6272.
1968	First peal rung by John M Ineson. Recorded peal total is 7.
1968	First peal rung by Geoffrey Richardson. Recorded peal total is 13.
1968	First peal rung by John Wightman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1973	First peal rung by Stuart J Flockton. Recorded peal total is 41.
1973	First peal rung by Keith F Chambers. Recorded peal total is 104.
1973	First peal rung by Barbara [Marple] Johnson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Kenneth W Marsh. Recorded peal total is 6.
1975	First peal rung by Frances E Collins. Recorded peal total is 4.
1975	First peal rung by E David Colston. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Clive J Dunbavin. Recorded peal total is 281.
1980	First peal rung by Karen Moore. Recorded peal total is 13.
1982	First peal rung by Darryl M Lidford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1982	First peal rung by David M [Pebmarsh] Turner. Recorded peal total is 12.
1982	First peal rung by Michael J [Kent] Cook. Recorded peal total is 17.
1982	First peal rung by Susan Cook. Recorded peal total is 15.
1982	First peal rung by E Linda Schofield. Recorded peal total is 4.
1982	First peal rung by Laura W Moore. Recorded peal total is 3.
1983	First peal rung by Karen L Wallace. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First peal rung by Andrew M Farmer. Recorded peal total is 1350.
1984	First peal rung by Robert D C Richards. Recorded peal total is 40.
1984	First peal rung by Peter J Aylott. Recorded peal total is 76.
1984	First peal rung by David P Greenaway. Recorded peal total is 19.
1984	First peal rung by Mark R Kingston. Recorded peal total is 85.
1984	First peal rung by Adam P Mead. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First peal rung by Amanda J Thompson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Charlotte Everett. Recorded peal total is 1075.
1985	First peal rung by Susan Brindle. Recorded peal total is 3.
1985	First peal rung by Kate Pickup. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by J Robin Alden. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by Val J Wood. Recorded peal total is 6.
1994	First peal rung by Lynda H Greaves. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First peal rung by Jonathan Western. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007	First peal rung by Michael W C Palmer. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 14th April

1773	First peal on the bells at Eye, SS Peter & Paul, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 139.
1821	First peal on the bells at Rye, St Mary the Virgin, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 65.
1873	First peal on the bells at Kingston upon Hull, Most Holy & Undivided Trinity, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 225.
1875	First peal on the bells at Weybridge, St James, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 45.
1879	First peal on the bells at Henley, St Peter, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 321.
1884	First peal on the bells at Clyst Honiton, St Michael & All Angels, Devon. Recorded peal total is 76.
1884	First peal on the bells at Tamworth, St Editha, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 179.
1903	First peal on the bells at Exton, St Peter, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 10.
1912	First peal on the bells at Wetherden, St Mary, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 18.
1913	First peal on the bells at Great Chishill, St Swithun, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 4.
1923	First peal on the bells at Wheathampstead, St Helen, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 36.
1928	First peal on the bells at West Hatch, St Andrew, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 4.
1956	First peal on the bells at Collingbourne Kingston, St Mary, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 19.
1956	First peal on the bells at Queniborough, St Mary, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 16.
1962	First peal on the bells at Evenlode, St Edward, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal on the bells at Shottesbrooke, St John the Baptist, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 47.
1966	First peal on the bells at Ludgershall, St Mary the Virgin, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 15.
1967	First peal on the bells at Alkham, St Anthony, Kent. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First peal on the bells at Little Bromley, St Mary the Virgin, Essex. Recorded peal total is 3.
2007	First peal on the bells at Stretton on Dunsmore, All Saints, Warwickshire. Recorded peal total is 6.

First peals in method for 14th April

1923	First tower bell peal of Goldsborough Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 22.
1928	First tower bell peal of Berwick Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 9.
1951	First tower bell peal of Rotherham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1956	First tower bell peal of Cobham Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First tower bell peal of St Albans Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 5.
1968	First tower bell peal of Caius Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968	First tower bell peal of Cork Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1969	First tower bell peal of Treales Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1973	First tower bell peal of Feering Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First tower bell peal of Kimcote Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1990	First tower bell peal of Tilburstow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Plimsoll Line Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Three Elms Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Zante Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1997	First tower bell peal of Islands Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Douglas Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Jezebel Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Tickeyhole Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of The Inimitable Gordon Halls Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Victoria Bar Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2007	First tower bell peal of Tilkey Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Freshbrook Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Toccata Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of New Chelsea Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Tretower Castle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.