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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 3rd November

Year	Event	Reference
1541	Parliament passed an Act forbidding the exporting of bell metal. So much had accumulated in the country following the Dissolution of the Monasteries that it was being exported and made into cannon abroad.	nv
1803	“The Bury and Norwich Post” for this date reported one of the earliest examples of muffled ringing: “On Sunday evening after the interment of Mr Tallock, one of the Mancroft ringers, a dumb peal of an interesting and musical kind was rung by his brother ringers, which left a solemn and affecting impression on the minds of the numerous hearers who assembled on the occasion.” See January 15,1817.	nv
1920	Four brothers with the surname Gofton rang a peal of London Surprise Major on handbells. This was the first time the method had been rung on handbells by a band of brothers. It was their first attempt at a peal in the method.	RW1920/553

Birthdays for 3rd November

First pealers for 3rd November

1886	First peal rung by William [Lewisham] Bedwell. Recorded peal total is 107.
1890	First peal rung by Robert Harrison_sen. Recorded peal total is 40.
1892	First peal rung by John W Cheal. Recorded peal total is 6.
1892	First peal rung by Edward Comber. Recorded peal total is 6.
1892	First peal rung by Alfred Cripps. Recorded peal total is 53.
1892	First peal rung by Frederick W Cripps. Recorded peal total is 65.
1892	First peal rung by N Steer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1892	First peal rung by W [Lower Beeding] Wadey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1894	First peal rung by George Turl_jun. Recorded peal total is 3.
1894	First peal rung by Charles Fisk. Recorded peal total is 1.
1894	First peal rung by William R Brewis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1894	First peal rung by Christopher Elliot. Recorded peal total is 1.
1894	First peal rung by John [Radcliffe] Crossley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1896	First peal rung by George Clarkson. Recorded peal total is 9.
1896	First peal rung by James Rickman. Recorded peal total is 4.
1896	First peal rung by Richard H Whitford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1898	First peal rung by James J Hole. Recorded peal total is 16.
1898	First peal rung by Arthur [Dunster] Long. Recorded peal total is 6.
1898	First peal rung by Francis Williams. Recorded peal total is 5.
1898	First peal rung by John [Perry Barr] Williams. Recorded peal total is 6.
1900	First peal rung by R D Swift. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by W W Wrigley_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by W Chamming. Recorded peal total is 1.
1900	First peal rung by James Jordan. Recorded peal total is 11.
1900	First peal rung by G Stephens. Recorded peal total is 1.
1902	First peal rung by Thomas [New Mills] Ashton. Recorded peal total is 9.
1902	First peal rung by William Broadhurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by G F Owen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William [Leigh] Banner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1906	First peal rung by John Howells. Recorded peal total is 5.
1906	First peal rung by Frederick M Newman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1906	First peal rung by William Ranford. Recorded peal total is 505.
1906	First peal rung by John Worman. Recorded peal total is 6.
1906	First peal rung by Ernest McWilliam. Recorded peal total is 14.
1906	First peal rung by Harold Boardman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by W [Chastleton] Newman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1912	First peal rung by Frank Turk. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by William Dormer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1917	First peal rung by Mrs E J Wilson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1919	First peal rung by Harry Daffin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1923	First peal rung by Frank J Trappitt. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by Clifford Ellison. Recorded peal total is 35.
1923	First peal rung by Florence Saunders. Recorded peal total is 2.
1923	First peal rung by Samuel Smedley_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by Frederick Selwyn. Recorded peal total is 6.
1923	First peal rung by Geoffrey A [Daresbury] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 3.
1923	First peal rung by Raymond Maltby. Recorded peal total is 5.
1923	First peal rung by Arthur W Robinson. Recorded peal total is 18.
1923	First peal rung by Walter [Denby] Briggs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by Thomas Cresswell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1923	First peal rung by Benjamin Walvin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1923	First peal rung by William Carnwell. Recorded peal total is 109.
1923	First peal rung by William Corfield. Recorded peal total is 13.
1924	First peal rung by Samuel Casley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by William Tarling. Recorded peal total is 2.
1928	First peal rung by J R King. Recorded peal total is 8.
1928	First peal rung by William G Atkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Christopher G Hendry. Recorded peal total is 7.
1928	First peal rung by Charles Croot. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Frederick Hobbs. Recorded peal total is 3.
1928	First peal rung by James Hobbs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by William H [Whaddon] Jones. Recorded peal total is 6.
1928	First peal rung by Herbert F Justice. Recorded peal total is 2.
1928	First peal rung by W George Turner. Recorded peal total is 50.
1928	First peal rung by Frank [Blackwell] Osborne. Recorded peal total is 9.
1928	First peal rung by Wilfred Riley. Recorded peal total is 79.
1928	First peal rung by Arthur S Smithson. Recorded peal total is 63.
1928	First peal rung by John Dryden. Recorded peal total is 6.
1928	First peal rung by Alban J Kendall. Recorded peal total is 4.
1928	First peal rung by George Dolby. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Henry H Parsons. Recorded peal total is 5.
1929	First peal rung by Frederick J Beazer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Roland Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 2.
1929	First peal rung by Charles Harding. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Harold Hinchliffe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Albert Hodgson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1932	First peal rung by Robert Bell. Recorded peal total is 26.
1932	First peal rung by George [Sunderland] Harvey. Recorded peal total is 2.
1934	First peal rung by John H Pagett. Recorded peal total is 34.
1934	First peal rung by George L Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 16.
1934	First peal rung by Harold E Brown. Recorded peal total is 6.
1934	First peal rung by Ernest Glass. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Charles E J Watt. Recorded peal total is 4.
1934	First peal rung by Reginald G Simmonds. Recorded peal total is 56.
1934	First peal rung by Mary Garley. Recorded peal total is 7.
1934	First peal rung by Leslie Askew. Recorded peal total is 2.
1934	First peal rung by Robert [Blackhill] Clark. Recorded peal total is 3.
1936	First peal rung by Clement W Cracknell. Recorded peal total is 11.
1936	First peal rung by Leslie Stimpson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1945	First peal rung by Noel J Diserens. Recorded peal total is 1253.
1945	First peal rung by L Edgar Chapman. Recorded peal total is 5.
1945	First peal rung by Bertram Hubbard. Recorded peal total is 5.
1945	First peal rung by Arthur J Garbett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Thomas Corless. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Henry P Collin. Recorded peal total is 96.
1947	First peal rung by Denis A Frith. Recorded peal total is 698.
1947	First peal rung by John H W Smith. Recorded peal total is 81.
1947	First peal rung by Mary Smith. Recorded peal total is 9.
1947	First peal rung by Joan Wright. Recorded peal total is 13.
1948	First peal rung by E Mary Bliss. Recorded peal total is 37.
1948	First peal rung by Eric J Taylor. Recorded peal total is 323.
1950	First peal rung by Willie G Fall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950	First peal rung by Douglas A French. Recorded peal total is 3.
1950	First peal rung by Ralph L Lowle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Edward C Pardy. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by W H Noel Devonshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1951	First peal rung by Stanley W Hatfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Ralph H Winser. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Jessie Cockburn. Recorded peal total is 2.
1954	First peal rung by Sidney Pugh. Recorded peal total is 9.
1956	First peal rung by Kenneth G Tasker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by Jill Cook. Recorded peal total is 3.
1956	First peal rung by Evelyn Neale. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by Eric G Silvey. Recorded peal total is 9.
1956	First peal rung by Lyn M Breslain. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by John L Sims. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Robert Burns. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by E Keith Jordan. Recorded peal total is 45.
1956	First peal rung by D Joseph Goodman. Recorded peal total is 41.
1956	First peal rung by Edna G Pannell. Recorded peal total is 10.
1956	First peal rung by Barbara Griffin. Recorded peal total is 7.
1956	First peal rung by Frederick W Aldridge. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by Hazel N Craven. Recorded peal total is 7.
1956	First peal rung by John P Hulme. Recorded peal total is 9.
1956	First peal rung by Brian E Jeffrey. Recorded peal total is 106.
1956	First peal rung by Ellen L Bathe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Patricia M Bathe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Stephen Duxbury. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Beryl Matthews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by David A Wills. Recorded peal total is 14.
1956	First peal rung by Joseph J Batchelor. Recorded peal total is 9.
1956	First peal rung by Alan A Croucher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Leona Wilson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1960	First peal rung by O Brenda Carter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Sheila J Staley. Recorded peal total is 40.
1962	First peal rung by Dennis J Murfin. Recorded peal total is 7.
1962	First peal rung by Vaughan A Wilson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1962	First peal rung by John Bruce. Recorded peal total is 10.
1962	First peal rung by Mary N Haslum. Recorded peal total is 4.
1962	First peal rung by Andrew F Howard. Recorded peal total is 87.
1962	First peal rung by Frank M Sheldon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1962	First peal rung by Allan J Tubb. Recorded peal total is 198.
1962	First peal rung by Felicity S Pocock. Recorded peal total is 5.
1962	First peal rung by Julia Larkinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Peter C Randall. Recorded peal total is 6375.
1965	First peal rung by Heather A Dobson. Recorded peal total is 16.
1965	First peal rung by Christopher I Rowson. Recorded peal total is 273.
1966	First peal rung by Roger [Rotherham] Harper. Recorded peal total is 11.
1973	First peal rung by Kevin S Maughan. Recorded peal total is 293.
1973	First peal rung by Stephen T Watts. Recorded peal total is 2.
1973	First peal rung by Yvonne Brown. Recorded peal total is 7.
1973	First peal rung by Lynn J Hall. Recorded peal total is 24.
1973	First peal rung by Paul C Phillips. Recorded peal total is 4.
1973	First peal rung by Clive M Williams. Recorded peal total is 3.
1974	First peal rung by David J Russell. Recorded peal total is 35.
1975	First peal rung by Julian Gibson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Elizabeth Hill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Paul A Knappett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978	First peal rung by Andrew J Hollingshead. Recorded peal total is 91.
1978	First peal rung by Fenella R Albon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Simon J Care. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979	First peal rung by Eric R Hallworth. Recorded peal total is 5.
1979	First peal rung by David H Graves. Recorded peal total is 37.
1979	First peal rung by Richard H Graves. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979	First peal rung by Sarah E Herbert. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First peal rung by Martin Meier. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Allen Nunley. Recorded peal total is 56.
1980	First peal rung by Steven R Costenoble. Recorded peal total is 95.
1980	First peal rung by Jason L A Tillman. Recorded peal total is 12.
1984	First peal rung by Richard R Rolfe. Recorded peal total is 3.
1984	First peal rung by S Robert Rolfe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First peal rung by Allan H Lewis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by W Henry Lewis. Recorded peal total is 4.
1984	First peal rung by Norman C Morris. Recorded peal total is 16.
1984	First peal rung by Alison Sollars. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Michael J Corlett. Recorded peal total is 10.
1985	First peal rung by Paul Male. Recorded peal total is 319.
1985	First peal rung by Audrey E Foulger. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First peal rung by Annette Morley. Recorded peal total is 4.
1990	First peal rung by Andrew D Stoker. Recorded peal total is 8.
1990	First peal rung by Vivienne R D Suttie. Recorded peal total is 5.
1990	First peal rung by Louise Graham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Colin R Hassell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1991	First peal rung by Anne M Weston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Sheila A Weston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by John H [Fawley] Davey. Recorded peal total is 10.
1999	First peal rung by John Graves. Recorded peal total is 26.
2000	First peal rung by Mark D Ganfield. Recorded peal total is 2.
2017	First peal rung by Yuka M Jones. Recorded peal total is 4.
2018	First peal rung by Simon W Hargreaves. Recorded peal total is 1.
2019	First peal rung by Ellen M Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 3rd November

1813	First peal on the bells at Condover, St Andrew, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 30.
1888	First peal on the bells at Brentwood, St Thomas, Essex. Recorded peal total is 167.
1900	First peal on the bells at Stonehouse, Plymouth, St George, Devon. Recorded peal total is 18.
1906	First peal on the bells at Leigh, St Edburga, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 27.
1923	First peal on the bells at Baltonsborough, St Dunstan, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 13.
1923	First peal on the bells at Great Barford, All Saints, Bedfordshire. Recorded peal total is 9.
1923	First peal on the bells at Thurstaston, St Bartholomew, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 36.
1927	First peal on the bells at Farnsfield, St Michael, Nottinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 13.
1928	First peal on the bells at Llantwit Major, St Illtyd, Glamorgan. Recorded peal total is 19.
1934	First peal on the bells at Mudford, Blessed Virgin Mary, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 4.
1934	First peal on the bells at Rodbourne Cheney, Swindon, St Mary, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 53.
1945	First peal on the bells at Broseley, All Saints, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1947	First peal on the bells at Cockerham, St Michael, Lancashire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1962	First peal on the bells at Filton, St Peter, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 16.
1979	First peal on the bells at Houston, St Thomas, Texas. Recorded peal total is 53.
1984	First peal on the bells at Fallowfield, Holy Innocents, Lancashire. Recorded peal total is 77.
1991	First peal on the bells at Hillbrow, Liss, Harcourts, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 11.
2000	First peal on the bells at Shepton Mallet, Summer House Campanile, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 2.
2003	First peal on the bells at Hillandale, Grahamstown, Holy Cross, South Africa. Recorded peal total is 5.

First peals in method for 3rd November

1951	First tower bell peal of Braunstone Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 79.
1955	First tower bell peal of Barham Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 7.
1956	First tower bell peal of Bamborough Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 14.
1956	First tower bell peal of Kelso Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 14.
1973	First tower bell peal of Ketteringham Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 11.
1979	First tower bell peal of Corby Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1981	First tower bell peal of Olympia Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First tower bell peal of Belerium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First tower bell peal of Kingston Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1984	First tower bell peal of Natrium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 19.
1989	First tower bell peal of Castleton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First tower bell peal of Fordingbridge Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1990	First tower bell peal of Belfast Little Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Eastwood Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 5.
1990	First tower bell peal of Emily Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 7.
1990	First tower bell peal of Kingwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1990	First tower bell peal of Upham Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1991	First tower bell peal of Dreadnought Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Dennington Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First tower bell peal of Bingley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First tower bell peal of Misterex Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Queen Eleanor Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 8.
1995	First tower bell peal of Rhondda Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996	First tower bell peal of Hatfield Peverel Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Neutone Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First tower bell peal of Dyfed Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2004	First tower bell peal of Langwith College Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2007	First tower bell peal of New Barge Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Niflheim Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2009	First tower bell peal of Septuagenarian Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
2010	First tower bell peal of All Souls Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Lord Deramore Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2012	First tower bell peal of Ryecroft Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Ferrytown Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.