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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 21st April

Year	Event	Reference
1756	Painted in the plaster of the ringing chamber at Ecton, Northants is a picture of six ringers in knee britches, silk stockings and buckled shoes. The inscription notes that on this date: "We the underwritten rang the first six Bell peal 720 upon six bells in this parish." It then gives their names and their heights!	Wall Painting
1794	The local company at Maidstone, Kent rang a 5040 of "New Bob Major Royal". We are not sure what method was actually rung.	nv
1821	James R Haworth born. He was one of the leading College Youths of the nineteenth century, and for many years controlled all the "scroof" (paid ringing) in London.	nv
1839	The Leeds Youths rang their sixth peal of over 10,000 changes in the tower with one of 10,080 Plain Bob Major in 5 hours and 55 minutes. Richard Gibbons was the conductor.	nv
1888	10,304 Plain Bob Major was rung at St Margaret, Leiston, Suffolk, conducted by James Motts in 6 hours and 17 minutes. The footnote records that the average age of the band was only 21, and they were all bachelors!	nv
1888	A 120 of Grandsire Doubles was rung at Harborne, Staffs on handbells by A H Parker (aged 8) 1-2, E Parker 3-4, and A E H Parker (aged 12, conductor) 5-6.	nv
1934	5024 Plain Bob Major at Crayford, Kent by a band of average age of 15 years 14 days. This remained the youngest band to ring an eight-bell peal for forty-seven years.	nv
1943	During the 1939-1945 war a ban was imposed on the ringing of church bells; they were only to be rung in case of invasion. From this day the ban was amended to allow ringing on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day. A month later all restrictions were removed.	nv
1956	John Freeman conducted the first "name" peal of Surprise Maximus at St John, Croydon. The entire band had the first name of John, and the method they rang was Cambridge.	NP

Birthdays for 21st April

1932	Brooke K Lunn born

First pealers for 21st April

1894	First peal rung by John Brockbank. Recorded peal total is 9.
1894	First peal rung by Edward Owen. Recorded peal total is 7.
1894	First peal rung by Frederick R Hounsell. Recorded peal total is 5.
1894	First peal rung by Thomas [Flixton] Harper. Recorded peal total is 2.
1894	First peal rung by J [Flixton] Hunter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1894	First peal rung by James M Ridehalgh. Recorded peal total is 3.
1894	First peal rung by George Shaw. Recorded peal total is 4.
1894	First peal rung by Squire Stott. Recorded peal total is 7.
1902	First peal rung by Frederick N Mason. Recorded peal total is 12.
1902	First peal rung by R McDonald. Recorded peal total is 1.
1902	First peal rung by Charles Summers. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by Frederick Shipp. Recorded peal total is 15.
1904	First peal rung by Samuel J Bird. Recorded peal total is 80.
1904	First peal rung by Frederick [Lewisham] Brett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William H Hewett. Recorded peal total is 555.
1906	First peal rung by Alfred Brook. Recorded peal total is 17.
1906	First peal rung by Harry Foulds. Recorded peal total is 5.
1906	First peal rung by Edward Mallinson. Recorded peal total is 11.
1906	First peal rung by Albert [Calverton] Hancock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1906	First peal rung by William G Rose. Recorded peal total is 5.
1906	First peal rung by Frederick A Tansley. Recorded peal total is 9.
1906	First peal rung by John [Biddulph] Beech. Recorded peal total is 13.
1910	First peal rung by Charles [Woodford] Morse. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Herbert H Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by John [Todmorden] Nash. Recorded peal total is 25.
1913	First peal rung by Gill Sutcliffe. Recorded peal total is 3.
1915	First peal rung by Bernard Allsop. Recorded peal total is 26.
1915	First peal rung by Frederick Dakin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1915	First peal rung by Charles H Poulson. Recorded peal total is 18.
1919	First peal rung by Thomas Love. Recorded peal total is 15.
1919	First peal rung by Cecil J Barker. Recorded peal total is 70.
1919	First peal rung by Ronald Rayner. Recorded peal total is 6.
1919	First peal rung by Arthur Wash. Recorded peal total is 12.
1919	First peal rung by Stanley Wilding. Recorded peal total is 6.
1919	First peal rung by Harry Wiseman. Recorded peal total is 2.
1919	First peal rung by Daniel T Matkin. Recorded peal total is 818.
1923	First peal rung by G William J Button. Recorded peal total is 81.
1923	First peal rung by John Denton. Recorded peal total is 4.
1923	First peal rung by Edward B Coxhead. Recorded peal total is 8.
1923	First peal rung by Geoffrey W Taysom. Recorded peal total is 165.
1923	First peal rung by Frederick Barrett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Thomas W Arrowsmith. Recorded peal total is 14.
1924	First peal rung by Frederick H Crawley. Recorded peal total is 109.
1924	First peal rung by Charles [Sandbach] Mason. Recorded peal total is 6.
1924	First peal rung by Geoffrey H Hodson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Mrs Ruby A Fardon. Recorded peal total is 19.
1924	First peal rung by Frederick Bowden. Recorded peal total is 15.
1924	First peal rung by James A Wisdom. Recorded peal total is 2.
1924	First peal rung by H [Seaford] Burton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by S Foord. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Miss E Packham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by E Piper. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by O [Seaford] Wood. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Douglas Hills. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Albert Gyns. Recorded peal total is 3.
1924	First peal rung by Leslie E [Bramford] Rivers. Recorded peal total is 4.
1924	First peal rung by Bert A J Yeates. Recorded peal total is 2.
1926	First peal rung by William Crowsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by George [Rickmansworth] Foster. Recorded peal total is 4.
1927	First peal rung by T Addison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by L Brown. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by H [Durham] Shipp. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by R H Shipp. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by T Spencer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by T Spencer_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by Thomas Whitehouse. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by H Doel. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Leonard Tubb. Recorded peal total is 12.
1928	First peal rung by George Warren. Recorded peal total is 7.
1928	First peal rung by Harry Warren. Recorded peal total is 9.
1928	First peal rung by John Kimber. Recorded peal total is 2.
1928	First peal rung by Frank [Hughenden] West. Recorded peal total is 59.
1928	First peal rung by Clarence Jones. Recorded peal total is 5.
1928	First peal rung by William [Flamstead] Hayes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by Frank [Flamstead] Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1928	First peal rung by T Slater. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Thomas C Castle. Recorded peal total is 5.
1929	First peal rung by Sidney J Cooper. Recorded peal total is 3.
1929	First peal rung by C Page. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Walter D Pooley. Recorded peal total is 42.
1929	First peal rung by Albert C Rose. Recorded peal total is 3.
1930	First peal rung by Joseph Flavell. Recorded peal total is 15.
1930	First peal rung by Percy Felton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1930	First peal rung by Stuart M Franks. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Albert Hoad. Recorded peal total is 6.
1930	First peal rung by Frederick H Andrews. Recorded peal total is 5.
1930	First peal rung by Edward R Grange. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Ernest A Shipp. Recorded peal total is 55.
1930	First peal rung by Charles W [Gaywood] Woods. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Percy G Harmer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Charles E Udell. Recorded peal total is 5.
1934	First peal rung by Whitted Sparkes. Recorded peal total is 4.
1934	First peal rung by John Bagnall. Recorded peal total is 185.
1934	First peal rung by J Edward Garnett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Ronald Humphries. Recorded peal total is 3.
1934	First peal rung by George A Naylor. Recorded peal total is 200.
1934	First peal rung by Frank E Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Olive Renton. Recorded peal total is 7.
1934	First peal rung by C Jack Gibson. Recorded peal total is 181.
1934	First peal rung by Reginald C Pearce. Recorded peal total is 4.
1934	First peal rung by Robert [Wenhaston] Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Herbert Helliwell. Recorded peal total is 21.
1934	First peal rung by Allan Rushworth. Recorded peal total is 13.
1934	First peal rung by J [Suffolk] Andrews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1935	First peal rung by Harold Boorman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by Albert E Bacon. Recorded peal total is 8.
1937	First peal rung by H Edward Carpenter. Recorded peal total is 2.
1937	First peal rung by Charles M Davies. Recorded peal total is 5.
1937	First peal rung by Donald F Ferguson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1938	First peal rung by Fred Mellor. Recorded peal total is 18.
1939	First peal rung by Harry S Cooper. Recorded peal total is 10.
1939	First peal rung by Lawrence Wood. Recorded peal total is 3.
1945	First peal rung by Irene J Hough. Recorded peal total is 3.
1945	First peal rung by Roland Shelbourne. Recorded peal total is 2.
1946	First peal rung by M William H Gray. Recorded peal total is 10.
1947	First peal rung by Peter D Beedie. Recorded peal total is 57.
1947	First peal rung by Nicholas F D Coleridge. Recorded peal total is 4.
1947	First peal rung by William J Harris. Recorded peal total is 2.
1947	First peal rung by Eira Pugh. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Peter M Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Joan H Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
1949	First peal rung by Christopher Pilbeam. Recorded peal total is 9.
1950	First peal rung by Shirley Wiseman. Recorded peal total is 3.
1951	First peal rung by Michael W Mason. Recorded peal total is 2.
1951	First peal rung by Winifred M White. Recorded peal total is 4.
1951	First peal rung by Albert H [Great Hampton] Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1951	First peal rung by Irene J Cordier. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by William C Ford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Jack A C King. Recorded peal total is 9.
1951	First peal rung by Arthur Clutton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1953	First peal rung by Ernest H Durrant. Recorded peal total is 6.
1953	First peal rung by Elizabeth M Hale. Recorded peal total is 2.
1954	First peal rung by Walter Mason. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by Brian Rothwell. Recorded peal total is 7.
1954	First peal rung by C Sandow Swannell. Recorded peal total is 3.
1955	First peal rung by Ann Culpin. Recorded peal total is 4.
1955	First peal rung by Peter J Lawton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1955	First peal rung by Priscilla L Oakeshott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1955	First peal rung by John F Olney. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by M Hastewell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by V Hastewell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Charles Freeman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by A Harry Salisbury. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by G Barry Brown. Recorded peal total is 329.
1956	First peal rung by Harold Barron. Recorded peal total is 5.
1956	First peal rung by Maurice Brown. Recorded peal total is 2.
1956	First peal rung by Henry F Long. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Joyce Lester. Recorded peal total is 4.
1958	First peal rung by Colin M Tiffin. Recorded peal total is 25.
1958	First peal rung by Roy R Tiffin. Recorded peal total is 35.
1960	First peal rung by Penelope Allen. Recorded peal total is 48.
1961	First peal rung by Brenda Collins. Recorded peal total is 8.
1962	First peal rung by Jean Curtis. Recorded peal total is 4.
1965	First peal rung by Elizabeth Thomas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by D Susan Elliott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by Christine H Hunt. Recorded peal total is 45.
1970	First peal rung by Jacqueline A Daisley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Nigel W [Castle Bromwich] Richards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by Stephen G Walker. Recorded peal total is 19.
1972	First peal rung by Faith V Barton. Recorded peal total is 5.
1974	First peal rung by R David Palmer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Nigel C Smith. Recorded peal total is 746.
1975	First peal rung by Margaret J Bulleid. Recorded peal total is 61.
1976	First peal rung by Christopher M [Battersea] Bennett. Recorded peal total is 30.
1976	First peal rung by Robert J Brown. Recorded peal total is 4.
1976	First peal rung by Lucy Darlow. Recorded peal total is 4.
1977	First peal rung by Grant S Miller. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Philip J Marshall. Recorded peal total is 4.
1977	First peal rung by Martin A Biggs. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Clare Eisner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Iain M Taylor. Recorded peal total is 9.
1979	First peal rung by David Howell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Elaine Wright. Recorded peal total is 4.
1979	First peal rung by Karen L B Spencer. Recorded peal total is 12.
1981	First peal rung by David H [Thurnby] Baker. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First peal rung by Catherine A Cridland. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Susan D Kelk. Recorded peal total is 89.
1985	First peal rung by Rosie H Synge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First peal rung by Lynda A Phillips. Recorded peal total is 8.
1985	First peal rung by Ann M Brown. Recorded peal total is 24.
1986	First peal rung by Susan H Rankine. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986	First peal rung by Clare Ryder. Recorded peal total is 53.
1987	First peal rung by Peter C W Claridge. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First peal rung by Gowen B Ditchburn. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Charles S A Richmond. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Amy C Oultram. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by Simon Curtis Ford. Recorded peal total is 4.
1990	First peal rung by M Glenn Francis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First peal rung by Peter W Alexander. Recorded peal total is 4.
1991	First peal rung by Victor S Coe. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by David G Holdstock. Recorded peal total is 5.
1991	First peal rung by Oliver Haynes. Recorded peal total is 7.
1996	First peal rung by Richard J Tucker. Recorded peal total is 9.
1996	First peal rung by Richard J O Butler. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First peal rung by Fiona Carstairs. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First peal rung by Benedict Baker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First peal rung by Faith J Pearce. Recorded peal total is 192.
2001	First peal rung by Wenjing Zhuang. Recorded peal total is 3.
2001	First peal rung by John R Cook. Recorded peal total is 64.
2001	First peal rung by Caroline M Barnes. Recorded peal total is 4.
2001	First peal rung by Michael J Penney. Recorded peal total is 2.
2001	First peal rung by Ann Rusby. Recorded peal total is 17.
2002	First peal rung by Michael C Loveder. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First peal rung by Paul H Wilkinson. Recorded peal total is 2.
2003	First peal rung by Nicholas J Cant. Recorded peal total is 13.
2003	First peal rung by Pauline Biddlecombe. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Terina S Bielby. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Janette M Swaine. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Christian J Brown. Recorded peal total is 17.
2006	First peal rung by Jenny Millar. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First peal rung by Susan P Manley. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007	First peal rung by Barbara Tuckwell. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007	First peal rung by Helen L Isaac. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First peal rung by Marion C Hollands. Recorded peal total is 3.
2012	First peal rung by Rosemary E Kelsell. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First peal rung by John R Burnett. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First peal rung by Edwin C Matthews. Recorded peal total is 6.
2019	First peal rung by Matthew J Foreman. Recorded peal total is 1.
2024	First peal rung by Marie E Yates. Recorded peal total is 1.
2024	First peal rung by Lewis S Knowles. Recorded peal total is 2.

First peals in towers for 21st April

1771	First peal on the bells at Helmsley, All Saints, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 37.
1772	First peal on the bells at East Hagbourne, St Andrew, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 184.
1772	First peal on the bells at Mitcham, SS Peter & Paul, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 158.
1794	First peal on the bells at Woodstock, St Mary Magdalene, Oxfordshire. Recorded peal total is 60.
1880	First peal on the bells at Southgate, Christ Church, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 239.
1891	First peal on the bells at Stone, Blessed Virgin Mary, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 24.
1892	First peal on the bells at Mickleton, St Lawrence, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 60.
1923	First peal on the bells at Eastrington, St Michael, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 37.
1928	First peal on the bells at Newchurch, All Saints, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 14.
1956	First peal on the bells at Exford, St Mary Magdalene, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 18.
1956	First peal on the bells at Stoke D'Abernon, St Mary, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 64.
1991	First peal on the bells at Blessington, St Mary, Wicklow. Recorded peal total is 3.

First peals in method for 21st April

1794	First tower bell peal of Maidstone New Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1955	First tower bell peal of Greet Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1956	First tower bell peal of Dunmow Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1956	First tower bell peal of Sibsey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1960	First tower bell peal of Northolt Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1966	First tower bell peal of Headstone Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First tower bell peal of Oswald Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 9.
1974	First tower bell peal of Newbury Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First tower bell peal of Wiay Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1984	First tower bell peal of Hunsdon Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1987	First tower bell peal of Berkhamsted Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First tower bell peal of Fairfield Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Dalhousie Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First tower bell peal of Upham Differential Triples. Recorded peal total is 4.
1994	First tower bell peal of Selly Park Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Dunfermline Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1996	First tower bell peal of St Merwenna Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Qawra Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1997	First tower bell peal of Ulrikakaka Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Risdene Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1999	First tower bell peal of Vulcanite Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
2000	First tower bell peal of Hereward Bob Caters. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of East Farndon Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of Crich Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of Ullenwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Elizabeth R Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 5.
2007	First tower bell peal of Byfield Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Leavesden Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2008	First tower bell peal of Pit Bull Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Penhill Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Queenhill Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Redcar Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of Munnings Little Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Tintern Abbey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.