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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 20th April

Year	Event	Reference
1982	An all-female band rang 10,440 Pudsey Surprise Royal at Lydney, Glos. in 6 hours and 18 minutes. It was not only the longest length in the method, but also the longest by a band of all women.	nv
1983	The first peal of half-lead spliced Surprise on handbells was one of Superlative and Bristol Maximus at Langley, Berks by Oxford Diocesan Guild ringers.	nv

Birthdays for 20th April

1909	Harold Sherratt born
1941	Henry G Chandler born

First pealers for 20th April

1891	First peal rung by Bertie Cowling. Recorded peal total is 25.
1891	First peal rung by James Holden. Recorded peal total is 1.
1893	First peal rung by Walter Filmore. Recorded peal total is 4.
1893	First peal rung by John [Yateley] Hilton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1893	First peal rung by William Tice. Recorded peal total is 2.
1893	First peal rung by Benjamin Robotham. Recorded peal total is 2.
1895	First peal rung by Charles F Walden. Recorded peal total is 2.
1898	First peal rung by John W Jackson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1901	First peal rung by George Baddeley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1901	First peal rung by Jacob Handcock. Recorded peal total is 4.
1901	First peal rung by James Pierpoint. Recorded peal total is 2.
1901	First peal rung by James Wildblood. Recorded peal total is 12.
1901	First peal rung by Charles Pendlebury. Recorded peal total is 1.
1901	First peal rung by Walter Sear. Recorded peal total is 59.
1903	First peal rung by Alfred Dodson. Recorded peal total is 7.
1904	First peal rung by Arthur Ainge. Recorded peal total is 12.
1907	First peal rung by John Farmer. Recorded peal total is 9.
1907	First peal rung by Ernest Parker. Recorded peal total is 43.
1907	First peal rung by J Sully. Recorded peal total is 6.
1907	First peal rung by G [Carhampton] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by William [Todmorden] Midgley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by William Henry Stansfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by Herbert Stevenson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by Ernest Sutcliffe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907	First peal rung by Frank Montford. Recorded peal total is 4.
1907	First peal rung by Thomas W Peake. Recorded peal total is 5.
1907	First peal rung by Wilmot Taylor. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Archie Mitchison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Ernest Aldridge. Recorded peal total is 6.
1908	First peal rung by George [Hampton Bishop] Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 6.
1908	First peal rung by John [Hampton Bishop] Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Richard Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 7.
1908	First peal rung by Edward Rickitt. Recorded peal total is 27.
1908	First peal rung by Bernard W Pettitt. Recorded peal total is 65.
1908	First peal rung by Edmund G Bates. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Jesse Couchman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by Frank [Farningham] Mason. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by George [Cardiff] Vinnicombe. Recorded peal total is 4.
1908	First peal rung by Frank W Buckland. Recorded peal total is 51.
1908	First peal rung by Frank Malin. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by Leonard Rolfe. Recorded peal total is 3.
1908	First peal rung by Robert H Young. Recorded peal total is 76.
1908	First peal rung by George [Anstey] Simpson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William Hollingworth. Recorded peal total is 52.
1912	First peal rung by William [Freiston] Bradley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1912	First peal rung by Joseph Burchnall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1912	First peal rung by Harry [Freiston] Mitchell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by F Philip Cheetham. Recorded peal total is 11.
1916	First peal rung by Frederick Coward. Recorded peal total is 5.
1916	First peal rung by William D Heelis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920	First peal rung by Annie M Dale. Recorded peal total is 10.
1920	First peal rung by Doris Dale. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by G [Ashton under Lyne] Barlow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Percival H Stafford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1922	First peal rung by George [Caerleon] Watts. Recorded peal total is 6.
1923	First peal rung by Norah M Randles. Recorded peal total is 499.
1928	First peal rung by John B Howes. Recorded peal total is 7.
1929	First peal rung by Harry Dobell. Recorded peal total is 4.
1929	First peal rung by Joseph [Heanor] Johnson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1929	First peal rung by Walter Pollard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Bernard Adams. Recorded peal total is 4.
1930	First peal rung by George Case. Recorded peal total is 39.
1930	First peal rung by Charles Dryland. Recorded peal total is 6.
1930	First peal rung by Thomas Guest. Recorded peal total is 10.
1930	First peal rung by John F [Dodleston] Hughes. Recorded peal total is 27.
1930	First peal rung by Herbert Roberts. Recorded peal total is 3.
1930	First peal rung by John T Tilston. Recorded peal total is 18.
1931	First peal rung by Charles Bransom. Recorded peal total is 5.
1931	First peal rung by Reginald Brockett. Recorded peal total is 7.
1932	First peal rung by Albert G Passey. Recorded peal total is 2.
1932	First peal rung by John H Thomas. Recorded peal total is 12.
1932	First peal rung by Alfred T Tomkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Ernest J Tomkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Percy L Tomkins. Recorded peal total is 2.
1932	First peal rung by Walter Leach. Recorded peal total is 3.
1933	First peal rung by Leslie [Newmarket] Warner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Douglas D Jaycock. Recorded peal total is 3.
1933	First peal rung by P Jaycock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Ronald [Hitcham] Walker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1933	First peal rung by William C Woodley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1937	First peal rung by G Arthur Bell. Recorded peal total is 29.
1938	First peal rung by Stanley G Bunch. Recorded peal total is 4.
1938	First peal rung by Victor Wilkinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Robert W Hazell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by George Newell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Archie Tuck. Recorded peal total is 3.
1940	First peal rung by George T Bussey. Recorded peal total is 5.
1940	First peal rung by Thomas Cooper. Recorded peal total is 85.
1940	First peal rung by George Corbett. Recorded peal total is 7.
1940	First peal rung by George T Ross. Recorded peal total is 2.
1940	First peal rung by Alfred S Tompkins. Recorded peal total is 2.
1946	First peal rung by Arthur Snape. Recorded peal total is 4.
1946	First peal rung by E John Baxter. Recorded peal total is 3.
1946	First peal rung by Francis R Goddard. Recorded peal total is 20.
1946	First peal rung by Herbert G Goddard. Recorded peal total is 166.
1946	First peal rung by Desmond G Mayell. Recorded peal total is 249.
1947	First peal rung by Harry N Vaughan. Recorded peal total is 40.
1947	First peal rung by Kenneth G Spavins. Recorded peal total is 16.
1947	First peal rung by Wilfred Surridge. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948	First peal rung by Harold Banwell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948	First peal rung by L G Edwards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948	First peal rung by J Webber. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Leonard Henrys. Recorded peal total is 3.
1950	First peal rung by Brian A Tomlinson. Recorded peal total is 541.
1952	First peal rung by John [Almeley] Newman. Recorded peal total is 12.
1954	First peal rung by David C [Bowdon] Brown. Recorded peal total is 2.
1955	First peal rung by Sheila Banwell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1955	First peal rung by Marion MacFarlane. Recorded peal total is 3.
1956	First peal rung by Dennis J Cross. Recorded peal total is 3.
1957	First peal rung by Albert E Woods. Recorded peal total is 4.
1960	First peal rung by M Elaine Lee. Recorded peal total is 136.
1960	First peal rung by Ian Potts. Recorded peal total is 2.
1960	First peal rung by Christine Livsey. Recorded peal total is 4.
1960	First peal rung by E Michael Quinn. Recorded peal total is 35.
1960	First peal rung by Gordon Rumney. Recorded peal total is 29.
1963	First peal rung by Norman Keene. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by Donald H A Drayton. Recorded peal total is 6.
1963	First peal rung by C David Everett. Recorded peal total is 11.
1963	First peal rung by Arthur Hunwick. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by Valerie J Howard. Recorded peal total is 1310.
1963	First peal rung by George H Austin. Recorded peal total is 65.
1964	First peal rung by Ronald Loxley. Recorded peal total is 4.
1964	First peal rung by Stanley Livesley. Recorded peal total is 14.
1964	First peal rung by Edmund Rothwell. Recorded peal total is 42.
1965	First peal rung by Janet Luckhurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by Roy C Groom. Recorded peal total is 19.
1965	First peal rung by Stephen J Hammond. Recorded peal total is 9.
1967	First peal rung by Dianne Knight. Recorded peal total is 18.
1968	First peal rung by Edward J Futcher. Recorded peal total is 1286.
1968	First peal rung by R Anne Wellen. Recorded peal total is 38.
1968	First peal rung by Julia C Greenhalf. Recorded peal total is 1.
1973	First peal rung by Alan J Steel. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by David [Locking] Baker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Andrew F Mitchell. Recorded peal total is 60.
1974	First peal rung by Jennifer E Mitchell. Recorded peal total is 45.
1974	First peal rung by Anne M Brooks. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Matthew P Sargeant. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Patrick L J Matthews. Recorded peal total is 34.
1974	First peal rung by Nigel Brookes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1976	First peal rung by Robin P D Middleton. Recorded peal total is 125.
1979	First peal rung by Julia M Forster. Recorded peal total is 77.
1980	First peal rung by Susan E Bryce. Recorded peal total is 457.
1980	First peal rung by Jane S Eades. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by Lisa Rouse. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by Janet Farrow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Elizabeth [North Hinksey] Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Julie McNaughton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Katrina Rook. Recorded peal total is 4.
1981	First peal rung by Ray Rook. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First peal rung by Sally A Schupke. Recorded peal total is 352.
1985	First peal rung by Frances A Shekelton. Recorded peal total is 15.
1985	First peal rung by Diane E Holyhead. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First peal rung by Roger H M Price. Recorded peal total is 7.
1986	First peal rung by Patricia Lubbock. Recorded peal total is 58.
1986	First peal rung by Sarah C Woodcock. Recorded peal total is 12.
1986	First peal rung by John Horton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by David J [Longbridge Deverill] Marsh. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Julia C Taylor. Recorded peal total is 6.
1987	First peal rung by Elizabeth J [Ealing] Jones. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987	First peal rung by William K Hamilton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Benjamin J Farnsworth. Recorded peal total is 25.
1991	First peal rung by Andrew Darby. Recorded peal total is 6.
1991	First peal rung by John H Emmett. Recorded peal total is 3.
1991	First peal rung by Beryl B Worsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Fiona M Brown. Recorded peal total is 4.
1991	First peal rung by Robert J Newton. Recorded peal total is 4.
1991	First peal rung by Timothy J Ellis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Philip N Baker. Recorded peal total is 5.
1992	First peal rung by Peter J [Cirencester] Harris. Recorded peal total is 38.
1992	First peal rung by Clive Devon-Haynes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First peal rung by Sue Andrews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Stephanie Shillito. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Anita H Perryman. Recorded peal total is 19.
1996	First peal rung by Helen L Vicary. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First peal rung by Alison M Hall. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First peal rung by Chloe J Lissimore. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First peal rung by Albert Lowery. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First peal rung by Jenny Morris. Recorded peal total is 26.
2002	First peal rung by Paul J Chandler. Recorded peal total is 49.
2002	First peal rung by Christopher C P Woodcock. Recorded peal total is 1204.
2003	First peal rung by Rosemary Davison. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First peal rung by Charles Hutton. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by Luke Daniel. Recorded peal total is 14.
2012	First peal rung by Thomas A Alspaugh. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First peal rung by Steve Chevis. Recorded peal total is 1.
2025	First peal rung by Charles W J Macrorie. Recorded peal total is 2.

First peals in towers for 20th April

1885	First peal on the bells at Havant, St Faith, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 51.
1895	First peal on the bells at Timberland, St Andrew, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 32.
1901	First peal on the bells at Church Lawton, All Saints, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 106.
1901	First peal on the bells at Gosforth, All Saints, Northumberland. Recorded peal total is 157.
1907	First peal on the bells at Kempsford, St Mary, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1908	First peal on the bells at Bloxham, Our Lady of Bloxham, Oxfordshire. Recorded peal total is 70.
1908	First peal on the bells at Farningham, SS Peter & Paul, Kent. Recorded peal total is 43.
1908	First peal on the bells at Hampton Bishop, St Andrew, Herefordshire. Recorded peal total is 17.
1908	First peal on the bells at Peterchurch, St Peter, Herefordshire. Recorded peal total is 58.
1912	First peal on the bells at Stow, St Mary, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 70.
1926	First peal on the bells at North Lopham, St Nicholas, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 149.
1930	First peal on the bells at Dodleston, St Mary, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 21.
1933	First peal on the bells at Newmarket, St Mary the Virgin, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 27.
1955	First peal on the bells at Bassingbourn, SS Peter & Paul, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 35.
1955	First peal on the bells at Owston Ferry, St Martin, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 39.
1963	First peal on the bells at Hempstead, St Andrew, Essex. Recorded peal total is 12.
1976	First peal on the bells at Carlton, St Mary, Bedfordshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1981	First peal on the bells at North Hinksey, Oxford, St Laurence, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal on the bells at North Molton, All Saints, Devon. Recorded peal total is 3.
1991	First peal on the bells at Broomfield, All Saints, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 11.
2003	First peal on the bells at Greyabbey, St Saviour, Down. Recorded peal total is 49.

First peals in method for 20th April

1950	First tower bell peal of Solihull Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 12.
1957	First tower bell peal of Leominster Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First tower bell peal of Flamstead Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 3.
1961	First tower bell peal of Sussex Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 14.
1964	First tower bell peal of Ilminster Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1976	First tower bell peal of Bodicote Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First tower bell peal of Quasimodo Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 8.
1981	First tower bell peal of Assheton Little Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First tower bell peal of Kingsbury Little Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Bishop Auckland Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First tower bell peal of Edgbaston Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First tower bell peal of Epiacum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First tower bell peal of Curium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1988	First tower bell peal of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Castleblayney Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First tower bell peal of Routenburn Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Rickmansworth Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Buckden Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Hamer Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Barton Seagrave Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First tower bell peal of North Mymms Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1997	First tower bell peal of Isleham Fen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Muncoy Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Thorney Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First tower bell peal of Hillingdon Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
2005	First tower bell peal of Varicella Zoster Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
2006	First tower bell peal of Church Stretton Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Zoar Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of High Halden Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Knowle Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2013	First tower bell peal of Long Sutton Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Oakbank Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Hill 60 Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Willey Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Anemone Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Double Norwich Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Jones Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.