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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 28th March

Year	Event	Reference
1750	The Society of Cumberland Youths rang the first peal of New Bob Triples at St Leonard's, Shoreditch. George Partrick was the conductor.	CuY7
1891	Two new trebles, cast by Whitechapel for St Peter, Caversham, were dedicated on this Easter Eve. The opening touch was 720 of Double Norwich Court Bob Major; none of the band, with the exception of Rev G F Coleridge who was a curate here, had rung the method before.	nv
1902	The first peal of Surprise to be rung on handbells by only four people took place on this day, when William Pye conducted 5056 changes of New Cambridge Surprise Major.	nv
1919	George V and Queen Mary visited the Whitechapel Bell Foundry to see the casting of the two new trebles for the eight at Westminster Abbey.	RW2009/347
1936	The first peal in seven Spliced Surprise Major methods was rung at St Mary's, Staines, conducted by E C S Turner.	nv
1977	An arsonist set fire to the church of St Margaret, Downham, Essex with its ground floor ring of six. Although the church was unusable, the tower, frame and bells were saved, the only casualties being the ropes and one ground pulley.	RW1977/306
1981	A peal of Double Darrowby Surprise Major was rung at New Arlesford, Hants. It is an unusual method; the treble dodges eleven times in each dodging position, making each plain course a quarter peal in length, or 1,344 changes long.	nv
1992	Revd Kevin M Price called Parker's Twelve-Part peal of Grandsire Triples twice to make a peal of 10,080 changes at Hawkshead, Cumbria. It took 5 hours and 41 minutes.	RW1992/407

Birthdays for 28th March

1933	Jean Harris born

First pealers for 28th March

1898	First peal rung by W Kill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1898	First peal rung by C Mockford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1898	First peal rung by T Pullen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1898	First peal rung by John B Bates. Recorded peal total is 8.
1898	First peal rung by Bertram Prewett. Recorded peal total is 953.
1898	First peal rung by George Lampitt. Recorded peal total is 6.
1898	First peal rung by George Streets. Recorded peal total is 3.
1898	First peal rung by Frederick Styles. Recorded peal total is 8.
1898	First peal rung by Edward Tolley. Recorded peal total is 8.
1906	First peal rung by George [Ealing] Green. Recorded peal total is 4.
1908	First peal rung by Alfred Abbott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Alfred Rider. Recorded peal total is 8.
1908	First peal rung by Edgar Sharratt. Recorded peal total is 10.
1908	First peal rung by Frank White. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Herbert Carter. Recorded peal total is 6.
1908	First peal rung by Albert J Green. Recorded peal total is 108.
1908	First peal rung by Dennis Hurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Harry Hurst. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Frank [Howden] Hodgson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by John T Moore. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Joe A Sherburn. Recorded peal total is 3.
1910	First peal rung by H [Shipston] Bird. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by E [Shipston] Cook. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by H [Shipston] Line. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Thomas H Irons. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by F E Reed. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by C W Saddington. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by John W L Slack. Recorded peal total is 39.
1910	First peal rung by Arthur Kenworthy. Recorded peal total is 6.
1910	First peal rung by Sidney Aldom. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by William Hulbert. Recorded peal total is 4.
1910	First peal rung by Ernest Cook. Recorded peal total is 5.
1910	First peal rung by Joseph Mower. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by George Nudd. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Herbert Carder. Recorded peal total is 3.
1914	First peal rung by Edwin S Garnet. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by Alec S Miller. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Arch T Miller. Recorded peal total is 2.
1914	First peal rung by Arthur [Mitcham] Walton. Recorded peal total is 3.
1914	First peal rung by Harold J Walton. Recorded peal total is 9.
1914	First peal rung by Thomas W Welbourne. Recorded peal total is 10.
1914	First peal rung by Edmund J Davey. Recorded peal total is 9.
1914	First peal rung by Frederick R Bolton. Recorded peal total is 4.
1914	First peal rung by H Holmes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by N Holmes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by William Margetts. Recorded peal total is 6.
1914	First peal rung by Harry Wooding. Recorded peal total is 56.
1921	First peal rung by William [Ash] Denyer. Recorded peal total is 12.
1921	First peal rung by Henry J Tinsey. Recorded peal total is 4.
1921	First peal rung by Edwin Vickers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Charles F Sayer. Recorded peal total is 165.
1921	First peal rung by Henry J Cloxton. Recorded peal total is 7.
1921	First peal rung by Horace Bosworth. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by George Franklin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Frank W Lack. Recorded peal total is 96.
1921	First peal rung by Donald Smith. Recorded peal total is 3.
1921	First peal rung by Thomas H Townsend. Recorded peal total is 13.
1921	First peal rung by Thomas [Great Staughton] Townsend. Recorded peal total is 13.
1922	First peal rung by George A [Barnwood] Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Percival C Richards. Recorded peal total is 63.
1925	First peal rung by Henry E Little. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Clarence Blackburn. Recorded peal total is 10.
1925	First peal rung by Edward J Avery. Recorded peal total is 36.
1925	First peal rung by Tom Browning. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by H Gilling. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by E Shallish. Recorded peal total is 3.
1926	First peal rung by Brinley J Jones. Recorded peal total is 6.
1926	First peal rung by William H [Llanelly] Saunders. Recorded peal total is 23.
1931	First peal rung by Ernest Tuck. Recorded peal total is 9.
1931	First peal rung by Charles Tremlett. Recorded peal total is 3.
1931	First peal rung by William [Staplegrove] Warren. Recorded peal total is 10.
1931	First peal rung by John R Mattock. Recorded peal total is 6.
1932	First peal rung by Hugh [Llantrisant] Thomas. Recorded peal total is 6.
1932	First peal rung by Kenneth E Birtles. Recorded peal total is 3.
1932	First peal rung by William Horsley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by Henry Payne. Recorded peal total is 10.
1932	First peal rung by Kenneth A Girdler. Recorded peal total is 5.
1932	First peal rung by Arthur E Hunter. Recorded peal total is 10.
1932	First peal rung by Albert Lambkin. Recorded peal total is 18.
1932	First peal rung by Harold O R Schupke. Recorded peal total is 2.
1932	First peal rung by Hugo E Schupke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1934	First peal rung by Burley Walshaw. Recorded peal total is 24.
1936	First peal rung by John H Harrison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Gilbert Howell. Recorded peal total is 3.
1936	First peal rung by Cyril Pettit. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Latimer O Williams. Recorded peal total is 4.
1936	First peal rung by Horace Allen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Joseph Southall. Recorded peal total is 8.
1938	First peal rung by Charles N Edwin. Recorded peal total is 8.
1947	First peal rung by Mollie Marsh. Recorded peal total is 43.
1948	First peal rung by Herbert Cornelius. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948	First peal rung by Bertie Hammond. Recorded peal total is 4.
1948	First peal rung by Charles H J Gravette. Recorded peal total is 13.
1951	First peal rung by John [Darley Dale] Hodgson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1953	First peal rung by Joyce A Fishlock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Richard A E Harbour. Recorded peal total is 4.
1953	First peal rung by James J Griffin. Recorded peal total is 3.
1953	First peal rung by Victor Jellings. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953	First peal rung by Kenneth H J Dyke. Recorded peal total is 5.
1957	First peal rung by Brian T H Dawson. Recorded peal total is 34.
1959	First peal rung by Jennifer S Saunders. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First peal rung by Valerie Green. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Christine Birks. Recorded peal total is 13.
1964	First peal rung by Wanless Dodds. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by J Paul Coad. Recorded peal total is 49.
1966	First peal rung by David J Ley. Recorded peal total is 19.
1967	First peal rung by Martin J Corry. Recorded peal total is 54.
1967	First peal rung by Susan A Dye. Recorded peal total is 79.
1967	First peal rung by Richard J [Bitton] Moore. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Michael J Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 10.
1970	First peal rung by William J Beeching. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Corinne M Dickson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1971	First peal rung by Ian Lockwood. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971	First peal rung by Jonathan D Peters. Recorded peal total is 3.
1971	First peal rung by Ian P Fowler. Recorded peal total is 4.
1973	First peal rung by Elane Robb. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by John F [Rangemore] Clayton. Recorded peal total is 3.
1974	First peal rung by Dawn Grundy. Recorded peal total is 181.
1976	First peal rung by Michael J de C Henshaw. Recorded peal total is 611.
1979	First peal rung by Helen M Martin. Recorded peal total is 3.
1981	First peal rung by Mark D Anderson. Recorded peal total is 4.
1981	First peal rung by Rosemary Werry. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Carol L Dawes. Recorded peal total is 44.
1982	First peal rung by Stuart M Cox. Recorded peal total is 232.
1985	First peal rung by Simon C Cottingham. Recorded peal total is 2.
1986	First peal rung by Paul Crawford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986	First peal rung by Richard Sheeran. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Rachel Webb. Recorded peal total is 12.
1986	First peal rung by John M Wright. Recorded peal total is 45.
1987	First peal rung by David J Gammon. Recorded peal total is 15.
1987	First peal rung by Sarah J Lake. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First peal rung by Mark J Kenyon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by John K Maddams. Recorded peal total is 64.
1987	First peal rung by Jennifer M C Day. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First peal rung by Timothy J Eyles. Recorded peal total is 38.
1987	First peal rung by Anne Lowen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First peal rung by William V L Avery. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Philip M Watson. Recorded peal total is 21.
1992	First peal rung by Evelyn Kirby. Recorded peal total is 12.
1992	First peal rung by Stephen J Bailey. Recorded peal total is 133.
1992	First peal rung by Penny Stoddard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First peal rung by Trevor A Cotterell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First peal rung by Daniel R Courtney. Recorded peal total is 9.
1994	First peal rung by Peter R Nicholas. Recorded peal total is 2.
1994	First peal rung by Ian Wisbey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by Penelope J Hares. Recorded peal total is 9.
1998	First peal rung by Robert J Ingamells. Recorded peal total is 2.
1998	First peal rung by G Roy Wilton. Recorded peal total is 3.
2005	First peal rung by Tony Fuller. Recorded peal total is 5.
2005	First peal rung by Elspeth S Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by Isobel C Barrett. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by A John Stanworth. Recorded peal total is 203.
2006	First peal rung by Kyle Ellis. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Andrew Hardiman. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by James W Perrins. Recorded peal total is 230.
2009	First peal rung by Mathew Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Jill [Brecon] Harris. Recorded peal total is 5.
2009	First peal rung by Emily Jayne Howells. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Mike Lewis. Recorded peal total is 3.
2009	First peal rung by Ken Morgan. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Mark Burt. Recorded peal total is 2.
2009	First peal rung by Louise C Munday. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by Ian G White. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Graham R Munday. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 28th March

1814	First peal on the bells at London, Great Tower Street, All Hallows, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 28.
1851	First peal on the bells at Bristol, St Mark, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 27.
1858	First peal on the bells at Eckington, SS Peter & Paul, Derbyshire. Recorded peal total is 125.
1900	First peal on the bells at Limpsfield, St Peter, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 22.
1908	First peal on the bells at Leckhamstead, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1910	First peal on the bells at Backwell, St Andrew, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 84.
1910	First peal on the bells at Berry Pomeroy, St Mary, Devon. Recorded peal total is 15.
1910	First peal on the bells at Bradpole, Holy Trinity, Dorset. Recorded peal total is 63.
1910	First peal on the bells at Bratton, St James the Great, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 20.
1910	First peal on the bells at Clenchwarton, St Margaret, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 41.
1921	First peal on the bells at Ash, St Peter, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 45.
1921	First peal on the bells at Great Staughton, St Andrew, Huntingdonshire. Recorded peal total is 22.
1931	First peal on the bells at Hodnet, St Luke, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 109.
1932	First peal on the bells at Lanivet, St Ia, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 21.
1932	First peal on the bells at St David's, St David, Pembrokeshire. Recorded peal total is 76.
1950	First peal on the bells at Haselbury Plucknett, St Michael & All Angels, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 32.
1953	First peal on the bells at Barham, St John the Baptist, Kent. Recorded peal total is 5.
1984	First peal on the bells at Churchstow, St Mary, Devon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First peal on the bells at Wotton Underwood, All Saints, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 27.
2004	First peal on the bells at Llanbedrog, St Pedrog, Caernarfonshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First peal on the bells at South Stoneham, Hartley Twelve, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 3.
2016	First peal on the bells at Alexandria, Virginia. Recorded peal total is 11.

First peals in method for 28th March

1750	First tower bell peal of New Double Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
1909	First tower bell peal of Cambridge Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 4324.
1955	First tower bell peal of Umberslade Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1956	First tower bell peal of Ingarsby Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First tower bell peal of Grimsthorpe Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Hafnium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1981	First tower bell peal of Balderton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1981	First tower bell peal of Berkshire Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 4.
1981	First tower bell peal of Double Darrowby Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First tower bell peal of Union Bob Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Clent Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1990	First tower bell peal of Valley Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 6.
1991	First tower bell peal of Pindamonhangaba Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Barnet Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Delaware Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First tower bell peal of Gigantic Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1992	First tower bell peal of Regni Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Burwell Fen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Clitheroe Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
2003	First tower bell peal of Whilton Hybrid Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of Leith Hill Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Newark Place Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Fair Isle Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
2011	First tower bell peal of Chiltern Turbo Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.