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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 23rd August

Year	Event	Reference
1788	The second peal of Stedman Caters was rung at St Leonard, Shoreditch by a band of Cumberland Youths. John Reeves composed and conducted it: he had previously called the first peal of it for the College Youths. See May 28, 1787. This peal was, incidentally, William Shipway's first for the Cumberland Youths. See October 25, 1790.	S152
1868	Henry Hubbard rang his last peal at Guisley, Leeds. It was a 5088 of Kent Treble Bob Major, and he conducted the peal. The combined ages of the eight men ringing amounted to 553 years. See August 25, 1807.	nv
1905	For the first peal on the bells of St Helena, Lundy Island, Revd F E Robinson decided to call a peal of Stedman Triples!	nv
1965	The first ten-bell ring in Australia was dedicated at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney by the Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, the Most Revd H R Gough. Mrs Ernest Trigg gave the Taylor ring of ten, with a tenor of 29cwt, in memory of her husband.	nv
1980	The London University Society rang the first peal in China with one of Oxford Treble Bob Major on handbells at Guangdong, conducted by Roger Bailey.	nv
1981	Frank R Morton rang his one-thousandth peal at Pulverbatch, Salop. He was the eighty-first person to achieve this total. Of this number he had conducted 636.	PPR

Birthdays for 23rd August

1940	Valerie J Stone born

First pealers for 23rd August

1894	First peal rung by Joseph W Guttridge. Recorded peal total is 2.
1894	First peal rung by William Ralph. Recorded peal total is 15.
1895	First peal rung by William [Tunbridge] Pollard. Recorded peal total is 3.
1900	First peal rung by Samuel Astbury. Recorded peal total is 4.
1902	First peal rung by Thomas [Harrold] Wright. Recorded peal total is 13.
1912	First peal rung by William [Woolwich] Horsley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by John Root. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by William [Leighton Buzzard] Mead. Recorded peal total is 6.
1913	First peal rung by James S Holmes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1916	First peal rung by Titus Barlow_jun. Recorded peal total is 15.
1919	First peal rung by Reginald Orth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1919	First peal rung by William J Rossiter. Recorded peal total is 6.
1919	First peal rung by Cyril S P Webb. Recorded peal total is 8.
1922	First peal rung by William [Minehead] Male. Recorded peal total is 3.
1923	First peal rung by Cecil Tomes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by E Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by G Meddick. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by T O'Brien. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by J Timblin. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Alfred [Kinver] Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by Ernest A Gillimore. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by S Walter Sibson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Albert E [Thurcaston] Wright. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Frederick J Warr. Recorded peal total is 4.
1930	First peal rung by Cyril A Jones. Recorded peal total is 5.
1931	First peal rung by Charles Sangwin. Recorded peal total is 77.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick Sangwin. Recorded peal total is 44.
1931	First peal rung by John W Sangwin. Recorded peal total is 26.
1934	First peal rung by Frank D Hiscock. Recorded peal total is 2.
1937	First peal rung by Philip A Barnes. Recorded peal total is 221.
1937	First peal rung by Fred Jeffery. Recorded peal total is 34.
1952	First peal rung by Terry Earle. Recorded peal total is 695.
1952	First peal rung by Alan R Syder. Recorded peal total is 294.
1956	First peal rung by Audrey E Goodchild. Recorded peal total is 3.
1958	First peal rung by Hugh E Bishop. Recorded peal total is 36.
1958	First peal rung by Donald A Fraser. Recorded peal total is 5.
1958	First peal rung by Ian J Fraser. Recorded peal total is 15.
1958	First peal rung by Leonard Goodall. Recorded peal total is 553.
1958	First peal rung by Leslie Leonards. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Sylvia Wignall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1958	First peal rung by Rosemary G Hicks. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by W Henry Trewin. Recorded peal total is 23.
1959	First peal rung by Marion Wall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Carol Eldridge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by John Pitfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by E R Garner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal rung by James Hedgcock. Recorded peal total is 1161.
1967	First peal rung by Andrew W E Bainham. Recorded peal total is 31.
1967	First peal rung by David G Jenkins. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Paul A Williams. Recorded peal total is 448.
1967	First peal rung by Hilary M Dickson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Valerie A Rushforth. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Walter J Stubbington. Recorded peal total is 5.
1969	First peal rung by Stuart F Taylor. Recorded peal total is 3.
1969	First peal rung by Brian V Mountjoy. Recorded peal total is 1340.
1969	First peal rung by Penelope Jackson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First peal rung by David G Kealey. Recorded peal total is 38.
1974	First peal rung by John P Hartley. Recorded peal total is 9.
1975	First peal rung by Teresa J Doggett. Recorded peal total is 86.
1975	First peal rung by David B Field. Recorded peal total is 10.
1975	First peal rung by T George Hull. Recorded peal total is 249.
1976	First peal rung by Rachel M Teverson. Recorded peal total is 13.
1977	First peal rung by John B Moroney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by Bryan Williams. Recorded peal total is 70.
1980	First peal rung by Christopher R Edwards. Recorded peal total is 3.
1980	First peal rung by Jackie S Edwards. Recorded peal total is 2.
1982	First peal rung by Claire E Wackett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by Alan J Compson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1986	First peal rung by Sarah A Schofield. Recorded peal total is 10.
1986	First peal rung by Catherine M Jack. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Steven Wilson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Paul J Sandham. Recorded peal total is 7.
1987	First peal rung by Catherine L Hobbs. Recorded peal total is 47.
1987	First peal rung by Andrew Colby. Recorded peal total is 9.
1987	First peal rung by Christopher J M Samson. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987	First peal rung by Sara L G Cottam. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by Anneke I Ryan. Recorded peal total is 7.
1993	First peal rung by Ann Harvey-Cook. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First peal rung by Caroline Sawyer. Recorded peal total is 4.
2003	First peal rung by Patricia A Hedley. Recorded peal total is 3.
2003	First peal rung by Christine L Marshall. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014	First peal rung by Paul H Curtis. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014	First peal rung by Christopher M Boulter. Recorded peal total is 1.
2023	First peal rung by Dexter Deackes. Recorded peal total is 5.
2023	First peal rung by Tim Holland. Recorded peal total is 1.
2023	First peal rung by Harry Longman. Recorded peal total is 1.
2024	First peal rung by Fergus Kettleborough. Recorded peal total is 9.

First peals in towers for 23rd August

1754	First peal on the bells at Tetbury, St Mary, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 98.
1902	First peal on the bells at Leicester, St John the Divine, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 134.
1902	First peal on the bells at Upton on Severn, SS Peter & Paul, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 92.
1905	First peal on the bells at Lundy Island, St Helen, Devon. Recorded peal total is 287.
1913	First peal on the bells at Charlton Mackrell, Blessed Virgin Mary, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 16.
1913	First peal on the bells at Skenfrith, St Bridget, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 7.
1919	First peal on the bells at Southminster, St Leonard, Essex. Recorded peal total is 12.
1924	First peal on the bells at Great Budworth, St Mary & All Saints, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 40.
1931	First peal on the bells at Pyworthy, St Swithun, Devon. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950	First peal on the bells at Fletching, SS Mary & Andrew, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 20.
1955	First peal on the bells at East Woodhay, St Martin, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 45.
1956	First peal on the bells at Whixley, Ascension, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 73.
1958	First peal on the bells at Edgmond, St Peter, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 81.
1958	First peal on the bells at St Juliot, St Juliot, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 3.
1965	First peal on the bells at West Putford, St Stephen, Devon. Recorded peal total is 5.
1984	First peal on the bells at Sampford Courtenay, St Andrew, Devon. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal on the bells at Pen Selwood, St Michael, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 11.

First peals in method for 23rd August

1919	First tower bell peal of Double Surfleet Court Bob Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1955	First tower bell peal of Southrepps Doubles. Recorded peal total is 9.
1958	First tower bell peal of Reverse St. Bartholomew Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First tower bell peal of Cheltenham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1962	First tower bell peal of Twyford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1969	First tower bell peal of Bedwardine Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1969	First tower bell peal of Byron Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1969	First tower bell peal of Lewisham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1976	First tower bell peal of Deane Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1976	First tower bell peal of Walkden Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1979	First tower bell peal of Nideggen Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 33.
1986	First tower bell peal of Cobblers' Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1989	First tower bell peal of Illinium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First tower bell peal of Pasadena Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1993	First tower bell peal of Moricambe Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1994	First tower bell peal of Egleton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1995	First tower bell peal of Gracedieubrook Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of HM & HG Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Raydale Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1997	First tower bell peal of Old Romney Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of West Croydon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First tower bell peal of Heywood Little Treble Place Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Quinine Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2004	First tower bell peal of Ionian Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of SMG250 Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Frilsham Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Thorpe Arnold Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Fastnet Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2013	First tower bell peal of Elford Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of Kilburn Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of Shackleton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.