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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 22nd April

Year	Event	Reference
1889	William T Pates called his first peal of Grandsire Caters. It was a noteworthy peal, being 15,227 changes in length, taking 9 hours and 43 minutes to ring! It surpassed the Oxford Diocesan Guild's record established the year before, and remained the longest length in the method till the Oxford Guild recaptured the record forty-three years later. It was only the ninth time 15,000 changes had been exceeded. See April 11, 1888 and December 27, 1932.	nv
1889	The Cumberland Association formed.	nv
1912	The first peal of surprise by an all-clerical band was rung on their Gloucestershire tour at the first attempt. They rang Superlative Surprise Major at Prestbury, conducted by Revd H Law James. They lost the attempt to ring the first clerical peal of Stedman Cinques the following day, however.	RW1912/291
1922	The Oxford Diocesan Guild and the Ancient Society of College Youths jointly established a record for the longest peal ever rung to this date. It was 21,363 changes of Stedman Caters, rung at Appleton, Berks in 12 hours and 25 minutes, composed by Henry G Miles and conducted by Herbert Langdon. Although more than three thousand changes longer than William Pye's peal in 1909, it only took seven minutes longer, due to the differing weights of the bells. This peal remained the record length for nearly fifty years. It was only the second time the clock had been rung round. See April 12, 1909 and November 4, 1950.	nv
1984	On Easter Day the new bell tower and ring of fourteen bells at Wellington Cathedral, New Zealand were dedicated.	nv

Birthdays for 22nd April

First pealers for 22nd April

1872	First peal rung by Frederick [Alburgh] Smith. Recorded peal total is 61.
1893	First peal rung by George M Rashbrook. Recorded peal total is 58.
1899	First peal rung by Edward Vine. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Harry [Thornham Magna] Moss. Recorded peal total is 6.
1906	First peal rung by James [Newton Longville] Dickens. Recorded peal total is 2.
1909	First peal rung by William [Burgess Hill] Ashdown. Recorded peal total is 11.
1909	First peal rung by James Parsons. Recorded peal total is 15.
1910	First peal rung by T Sarginson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by Herbert [Condover] Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by James H Lees. Recorded peal total is 23.
1911	First peal rung by Joseph Ormerod. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911	First peal rung by T A Howse-Smith. Recorded peal total is 20.
1911	First peal rung by Frederick Parr. Recorded peal total is 26.
1911	First peal rung by Walter Ayre. Recorded peal total is 939.
1911	First peal rung by Charles Arbon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by A T [Chesterton] Shelton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by O W M Shelton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Frank Neal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1918	First peal rung by David Atkinson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1918	First peal rung by Joseph Atkinson. Recorded peal total is 23.
1919	First peal rung by Joe Greenwood. Recorded peal total is 45.
1920	First peal rung by Harry H Mance_jun. Recorded peal total is 10.
1920	First peal rung by Gilbert Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Percy Crouch. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by Reginald Maile. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by William [Petham] Thompson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1922	First peal rung by Thomas [Coseley] Reynolds. Recorded peal total is 3.
1922	First peal rung by William [Bonvilston] Coles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Alfred Hannington. Recorded peal total is 110.
1922	First peal rung by Frederick J Hannington. Recorded peal total is 33.
1922	First peal rung by Alfred Hannington_sen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by William Samuel. Recorded peal total is 4.
1922	First peal rung by Edward [Bonvilston] Thomas. Recorded peal total is 6.
1922	First peal rung by Stanley Isaacs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Thomas [Bitteswell] Cooper. Recorded peal total is 5.
1922	First peal rung by Maurice Watts-Read. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by J [Consett] Oliver. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by George Foddy. Recorded peal total is 6.
1928	First peal rung by Ralph Foddy. Recorded peal total is 9.
1929	First peal rung by Laurence England. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Charles Pryke. Recorded peal total is 17.
1930	First peal rung by Richard Hansell. Recorded peal total is 10.
1930	First peal rung by Harry Short. Recorded peal total is 31.
1930	First peal rung by Hubert Waters. Recorded peal total is 10.
1931	First peal rung by George Collier. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Thomas H Theobald. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Harry [Milton Clevedon] Haynes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by William Higdon. Recorded peal total is 7.
1932	First peal rung by Percy Hill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by James W Berry. Recorded peal total is 9.
1933	First peal rung by C William Nutt. Recorded peal total is 70.
1935	First peal rung by George Johnson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1935	First peal rung by Frank Mason. Recorded peal total is 7.
1935	First peal rung by Leslie J Hawkins. Recorded peal total is 8.
1936	First peal rung by James W Spillett. Recorded peal total is 5.
1936	First peal rung by C Edward Jeffries. Recorded peal total is 455.
1936	First peal rung by Andrew C Sinfield. Recorded peal total is 301.
1937	First peal rung by G R Browning. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by L S Howard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by L S Wensley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Joseph Willows. Recorded peal total is 6.
1939	First peal rung by Gladys Willars. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Harold Drake. Recorded peal total is 6.
1939	First peal rung by Alan E [Chiddingfold] Brown. Recorded peal total is 4.
1939	First peal rung by Mrs W Massey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Harry Scotcher. Recorded peal total is 3.
1939	First peal rung by Bertie Edwards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Harry Strangward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by S Ronald Fethers. Recorded peal total is 2.
1940	First peal rung by Sydney Alderman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by Arthur R Burgess. Recorded peal total is 2.
1944	First peal rung by Frederick E Manns. Recorded peal total is 5.
1944	First peal rung by William A Theobald. Recorded peal total is 460.
1946	First peal rung by Albert H Drayton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1946	First peal rung by Thomas J Hill. Recorded peal total is 17.
1946	First peal rung by Thomas W Vickery. Recorded peal total is 3.
1946	First peal rung by Frederick Welch. Recorded peal total is 43.
1946	First peal rung by Reginald Welch. Recorded peal total is 17.
1949	First peal rung by Stanley Anderton. Recorded peal total is 145.
1949	First peal rung by George [Bolton] Oliver. Recorded peal total is 2.
1949	First peal rung by Robert Brice. Recorded peal total is 12.
1949	First peal rung by George K Westlake. Recorded peal total is 4.
1949	First peal rung by Thomas E Wood. Recorded peal total is 41.
1950	First peal rung by George E Hancock. Recorded peal total is 113.
1950	First peal rung by Keith Burbidge. Recorded peal total is 4.
1950	First peal rung by John H Manktelow. Recorded peal total is 2.
1950	First peal rung by Daphne L R Turk. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950	First peal rung by John [Litton] Bartlett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Richard Duddin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Charlie Ford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Gordon Ford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by S John Withey. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950	First peal rung by Thomas G Hayes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by William J Ridgman. Recorded peal total is 352.
1951	First peal rung by George S Hill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by John R Chapman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Edmund E Edwards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Jesse Thornett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Barrie Wheeler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957	First peal rung by Heather Stewart. Recorded peal total is 8.
1957	First peal rung by Alan A J Buswell. Recorded peal total is 118.
1957	First peal rung by Jill Creasy. Recorded peal total is 3.
1958	First peal rung by H Padbury. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by T Padbury. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by S Michael J Young. Recorded peal total is 17.
1961	First peal rung by James W Tyler. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Maurice J Rose. Recorded peal total is 423.
1961	First peal rung by Alan Balding. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Janet C M Pyke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by James G Brocklehurst. Recorded peal total is 10.
1961	First peal rung by Elsie M Burton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by John H Taylor. Recorded peal total is 280.
1964	First peal rung by Timothy J Samuelson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1965	First peal rung by Clive A Thrower. Recorded peal total is 119.
1967	First peal rung by Jonathan P Hill. Recorded peal total is 66.
1967	First peal rung by Timothy W Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 304.
1967	First peal rung by Ian P Sawford. Recorded peal total is 16.
1967	First peal rung by Anne Trinder. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Maurice W Thompson. Recorded peal total is 30.
1967	First peal rung by Malcolm Barden. Recorded peal total is 128.
1967	First peal rung by Sandra M Pearce. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Jenny A Green. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968	First peal rung by Roger G Green. Recorded peal total is 605.
1968	First peal rung by Michael J Eastman. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First peal rung by Jill P Gordon. Recorded peal total is 5.
1968	First peal rung by John H Naysmith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Janet Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First peal rung by Helen [Wakefield] Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1972	First peal rung by Timothy N Hughes. Recorded peal total is 4.
1972	First peal rung by Charles B Way. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by Maureen Cherryman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by Neil Hutchinson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by Rosemary Ashworth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by Stuart Holroyd. Recorded peal total is 21.
1972	First peal rung by Fiona G Trueman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1972	First peal rung by Sarah E Hutchinson. Recorded peal total is 257.
1976	First peal rung by John M Gatrill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Stuart E Curl. Recorded peal total is 5.
1978	First peal rung by Philip H A Austin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Andrew R C Bennett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by James E Hawkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Graham D H Kilgour. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Frederick Sellars. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by David Snowdon. Recorded peal total is 36.
1978	First peal rung by Isobel D Tennant. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978	First peal rung by June M Brown. Recorded peal total is 32.
1978	First peal rung by Christine J Nicol. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Nicola J Turner. Recorded peal total is 5066.
1979	First peal rung by Mark J Callow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Alison J Luxton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Sheena Cagienard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Matthew Dudley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Tony Hickman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Colin J T Shepherd. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by M Anne Wright. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Sarah North. Recorded peal total is 3.
1982	First peal rung by C John Shannon. Recorded peal total is 3.
1983	First peal rung by Joy Hammond. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Neil Plastow. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986	First peal rung by Simon J Milford. Recorded peal total is 14.
1987	First peal rung by Jane Barnacott. Recorded peal total is 58.
1988	First peal rung by Michael Lees. Recorded peal total is 6.
1988	First peal rung by Nicholas Bulmer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Karen Attenborough. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Russell J Collingham. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989	First peal rung by David W T Sibson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Richard [Weston] Clements. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989	First peal rung by Andrew F Ling. Recorded peal total is 8.
1989	First peal rung by Andrew K Watts. Recorded peal total is 4.
1989	First peal rung by Nicholas J Basson. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First peal rung by Pauline Underwood. Recorded peal total is 4.
1989	First peal rung by Richard A H Brown. Recorded peal total is 26.
1989	First peal rung by Barry Herron. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Nicola M Lee. Recorded peal total is 17.
1989	First peal rung by Rachel J Parsons. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First peal rung by Rachel M Rathbone. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989	First peal rung by Diane E Sprague. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Alun L Jones. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Rachel Mason. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Christina Tribble. Recorded peal total is 4.
1993	First peal rung by Paul A Bugby. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First peal rung by Daniel J Blackmore-Squires. Recorded peal total is 4.
1995	First peal rung by Nigel W [Maiden Bradley] Richards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by James F MacDonald. Recorded peal total is 3.
2000	First peal rung by Ann Heron. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Dianne Martin. Recorded peal total is 111.
2000	First peal rung by Fay Nicholls. Recorded peal total is 2.
2000	First peal rung by Martin Thorne. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Mike Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by Jennifer C N Davies. Recorded peal total is 45.
2006	First peal rung by Emma L Douglas. Recorded peal total is 91.
2006	First peal rung by Jason R Busby. Recorded peal total is 35.
2006	First peal rung by Debbie Hill. Recorded peal total is 12.
2006	First peal rung by Tansley C Grace. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Matthew J Bayley. Recorded peal total is 18.
2012	First peal rung by Benjamin J H Legg. Recorded peal total is 8.
2014	First peal rung by Vernon L Hunt. Recorded peal total is 1.
2017	First peal rung by Rebecca J Sharp. Recorded peal total is 1.
2017	First peal rung by Anna M Perrins. Recorded peal total is 9.
2023	First peal rung by Ellis Whitehouse. Recorded peal total is 2.
2023	First peal rung by Dylan M Smith. Recorded peal total is 5.

First peals in towers for 22nd April

1764	First peal on the bells at Grantham, St Wulfram, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 234.
1764	First peal on the bells at Ripon, SS Peter & Wilfrid, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 156.
1860	First peal on the bells at Minsterworth, St Peter, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 23.
1893	First peal on the bells at Bushley, St Peter, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1908	First peal on the bells at Long Sutton, St Mary, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 89.
1911	First peal on the bells at Bromley Common, St Luke, Kent. Recorded peal total is 135.
1911	First peal on the bells at Worplesdon, St Mary, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 28.
1922	First peal on the bells at Bonvilston, St Mary the Virgin, Glamorgan. Recorded peal total is 22.
1922	First peal on the bells at Kemerton, St Nicholas, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 9.
1922	First peal on the bells at Longhope, All Saints, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1929	First peal on the bells at Ulceby, St Nicholas, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 60.
1932	First peal on the bells at Milton Clevedon, St James, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 3.
1937	First peal on the bells at Willersey, St Peter, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1939	First peal on the bells at Nassington, St Mary the Virgin & All Saints, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1944	First peal on the bells at Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, St Paul, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 17.
1956	First peal on the bells at Wisbech St Mary, St Mary, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1967	First peal on the bells at Harefield, St Mary the Virgin, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 88.
1968	First peal on the bells at Stanbridge, St John the Baptist, Bedfordshire. Recorded peal total is 4.
1973	First peal on the bells at Hebburn, St Andrew's Centre, Durham. Recorded peal total is 6.
1989	First peal on the bells at Sheldon, St Giles, Warwickshire. Recorded peal total is 4.
2000	First peal on the bells at Appleton, Balscote Ring, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 7.
2001	First peal on the bells at Mynyddislwyn, St Tudor, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 17.
2001	First peal on the bells at Walsoken, Coleridge Campanile, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 119.
2006	First peal on the bells at Tewkesbury, Bellflowering, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First peal on the bells at Shapwick, St Bartholomew, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 3.
2016	First peal on the bells at Clapham, St James, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
2017	First peal on the bells at Bowerchalke, Holy Trinity, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in method for 22nd April

1764	First tower bell peal of Ripon's Delight Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First tower bell peal of Lavenham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1954	First tower bell peal of Evington Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1955	First tower bell peal of Wearmouth Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 10.
1961	First tower bell peal of Carlton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First tower bell peal of Nottingham Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1961	First tower bell peal of St George's Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First tower bell peal of Edenham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1965	First tower bell peal of Ditcheat Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1965	First tower bell peal of Mauretania Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 18.
1972	First tower bell peal of Moorgate Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978	First tower bell peal of Loidis Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Araucaria Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Droxford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First tower bell peal of Ytterbium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 81.
1986	First tower bell peal of Strontium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1987	First tower bell peal of Bromine Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First tower bell peal of Blackburn Place Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First tower bell peal of Wolverhampton Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Emma Louise Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Fargo Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First tower bell peal of Old Superlative Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1995	First tower bell peal of Moorfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First tower bell peal of Kallimay Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First tower bell peal of Bishop Stopford Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Fettes Treble Place Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Stirling Treble Place Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Ullesthorpe Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Kilmahog Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Nike Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of Koppa Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Catton Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.