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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 March

Year	Event	Reference
1728	The College Youths rang the first peal of College Triples on the bells of St Olave, Southwark.	CY14
1761	In pursuit of their desire for a ring of ten, the Leeds, Kent ringers attempted to ring 40,320 Plain Bob Major. A local dignitary had provided them with two trebles to make a ring of eight when they proved they could ring the extent on six, and they hoped he would do the same again if they rang the extent on eight. They had rung just over 17,000 changes when a bell overturned, and they lost the peal. See April 7, 1761.	nv
1783	A band rang 5,220 changes of Old Doubles Caters at Fulham. The method was probably Plain Bob Caters.	nv
1837	Elijah Roberts performed his greatest tapping triumph at the Derby Arms, Liverpool, where he was landlord. In an immense feat of concentration he tapped 19,440 Kent Treble Bob Maximus in 13 hours and 43 minutes. Listeners said they heard him tapping away from before four in the morning till after five in the evening. See May 23, 1807 and January 26, 1865.	RW1911/514
1841	Henry Earle Bulwer born at Cawston, Norfolk. He learnt to ring at Redenhall whilst a curate at Needham, and rang a number of peals whilst there. His practical ringing career virtually finished in 1884 when he became Vicar of Stanhoe, a very isolated village in Norfolk with no bells. He became an expert on the theoretical side of ringing: his achievements include introducing the first new surprise method, keeping the second away from the 7 and 8 in peals, many investigations into Stedman Triples, etc. He was appointed Secretary to the Central Council at its second meeting, a position he retained until his death on May 5, 1902.	nv
1860	The Norfolk ringers rang 10,080 changes of Oxford Treble Bob Major at Redenhall.	nv
1887	A peal of 9,020 Grandsire Cinques was rung at St Martin's, Birmingham, composed by Henry Johnson and conducted by John Buffery. This was the longest peal of Cinques to date, surpassing Annable's peal rung in 1735. See December 15, 1735 and May 29, 1896.	nv
1895	The first peal of Canterbury Pleasure Caters was rung at Chesterfield; no one else has rung one since!	nv
1898	Members of the St Martin's Guild rang 8,888 Stedman Caters on handbells. This was the longest peal of Caters on handbells at that time. See February 23, 1898.	nv
1935	A band with an average age of 22 rang a peal of four-spliced Surprise Major, composed and conducted by Ernest C S Turner.	nv
1991	The longest peal of Grandsire Triples rung took place at Hawkshead, Cumbria, conducted by Revd K M Price. The 20,160 changes, or four peals rung consecutively, took 10 hours and 38 minutes. The band had assembled from eight different counties, one as far south as Surrey.	nv

Birthdays for 23rd March

First pealers for 23rd March

1897	First peal rung by William W Fox. Recorded peal total is 39.
1899	First peal rung by J W [Ashton] Holme. Recorded peal total is 2.
1901	First peal rung by Ralph Coles. Recorded peal total is 128.
1907	First peal rung by George Holifield_jun. Recorded peal total is 211.
1907	First peal rung by J T [Talgarth] Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by William D Griffiths. Recorded peal total is 34.
1907	First peal rung by Henry [Talgarth] Harrison. Recorded peal total is 4.
1907	First peal rung by William Pritchard. Recorded peal total is 21.
1914	First peal rung by Joseph [Brierley Hill] Slater. Recorded peal total is 2.
1919	First peal rung by Harry Brewer. Recorded peal total is 2.
1919	First peal rung by John Brewer. Recorded peal total is 3.
1920	First peal rung by George A J Burr. Recorded peal total is 1.
1920	First peal rung by Frederick G Phyall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Albert D Collins. Recorded peal total is 165.
1929	First peal rung by William [Blakenhall] Smith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1929	First peal rung by Leonard C Dowdeswell. Recorded peal total is 11.
1929	First peal rung by Cyril Carnall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Harold Denman. Recorded peal total is 477.
1929	First peal rung by James Smith_jun. Recorded peal total is 4.
1929	First peal rung by Alfred B King. Recorded peal total is 8.
1929	First peal rung by Charles [Almeley] Webb. Recorded peal total is 2.
1929	First peal rung by Eric R Webb. Recorded peal total is 13.
1935	First peal rung by Thomas R Mogg. Recorded peal total is 11.
1946	First peal rung by Mrs K F J Parr. Recorded peal total is 6.
1946	First peal rung by Hilda M Stobbs. Recorded peal total is 7.
1946	First peal rung by G Stanley Brewin. Recorded peal total is 13.
1946	First peal rung by Horace Myatt. Recorded peal total is 13.
1946	First peal rung by Donald L Walton. Recorded peal total is 4.
1946	First peal rung by Herbert [Snaith] Cooper. Recorded peal total is 12.
1946	First peal rung by Thomas W Tune. Recorded peal total is 11.
1946	First peal rung by Kathleen F J Parr. Recorded peal total is 32.
1949	First peal rung by Colin D Mann. Recorded peal total is 11.
1954	First peal rung by Josie Botting. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957	First peal rung by J Barry Pickup. Recorded peal total is 1339.
1957	First peal rung by Alan J Haines. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957	First peal rung by John H L Blick. Recorded peal total is 3.
1957	First peal rung by Alan J Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1957	First peal rung by Arthur W Crozier. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957	First peal rung by Frank Cuss. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First peal rung by Gerald A Bacon. Recorded peal total is 78.
1960	First peal rung by Janet Rowe. Recorded peal total is 8.
1960	First peal rung by Peter Sloman. Recorded peal total is 51.
1961	First peal rung by Christopher K Cooper. Recorded peal total is 454.
1963	First peal rung by Valerie Humphrys. Recorded peal total is 5.
1963	First peal rung by Alan [Clent] Roberts. Recorded peal total is 621.
1964	First peal rung by Alan B Rothwell. Recorded peal total is 7.
1968	First peal rung by Margaret Evans. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Christopher J Baker. Recorded peal total is 7.
1968	First peal rung by John [Alton] Hall. Recorded peal total is 27.
1968	First peal rung by Elizabeth M Hall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Valerie A [Great Addington] Hall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Angela B J Harlow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Jennifer E Elmes. Recorded peal total is 75.
1971	First peal rung by Robin J M Bavin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971	First peal rung by Peter L Bunn. Recorded peal total is 5.
1971	First peal rung by Thomas Hooley. Recorded peal total is 174.
1971	First peal rung by Christopher Norton. Recorded peal total is 3.
1971	First peal rung by C Mark G Ockelton. Recorded peal total is 397.
1974	First peal rung by Anthony F Lock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by David J Payne. Recorded peal total is 6.
1974	First peal rung by Catherine J Chambers. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Sally A Hewitt. Recorded peal total is 6.
1974	First peal rung by J Nigel Wilkinson. Recorded peal total is 67.
1974	First peal rung by Barbara E Wooding. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Jane M Singleton. Recorded peal total is 6.
1974	First peal rung by Michael B Smith. Recorded peal total is 11.
1974	First peal rung by Susan M Hopkin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Kevin Lay. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Diana M Parrott. Recorded peal total is 20.
1974	First peal rung by Susan E Tompsett. Recorded peal total is 24.
1974	First peal rung by Sarah B Ewbank. Recorded peal total is 294.
1974	First peal rung by Margaret A Wells. Recorded peal total is 16.
1974	First peal rung by Eric A J Wilkins. Recorded peal total is 8.
1974	First peal rung by Roy Bull. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by George [Blakesley] Walker. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Frederick Pembleton. Recorded peal total is 280.
1974	First peal rung by Anne Boddington. Recorded peal total is 25.
1975	First peal rung by Reginald J Summers. Recorded peal total is 21.
1977	First peal rung by Rosemary J Blunt. Recorded peal total is 12.
1980	First peal rung by Henry Brugsch. Recorded peal total is 3.
1980	First peal rung by William L Engelhardt. Recorded peal total is 5.
1981	First peal rung by Christopher Baird. Recorded peal total is 7.
1981	First peal rung by Michael Whalley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Karen E [Kingsbury] White. Recorded peal total is 4.
1984	First peal rung by Robert B S Oakeshott. Recorded peal total is 285.
1985	First peal rung by William J Avenell. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First peal rung by David M [Chelford] Ellis. Recorded peal total is 9.
1985	First peal rung by Graham D Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1985	First peal rung by Carole A Stevens. Recorded peal total is 9.
1987	First peal rung by Philip Davison. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Glenn Barnett. Recorded peal total is 3.
1991	First peal rung by Diana R Hallchurch-Green. Recorded peal total is 51.
1991	First peal rung by Philip G Brown. Recorded peal total is 3.
1991	First peal rung by David W [Hook Norton] Clarke. Recorded peal total is 4.
1991	First peal rung by Erica M Pritchard. Recorded peal total is 5.
1991	First peal rung by Kevin J Pritchard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Margaret J Tilley. Recorded peal total is 9.
1991	First peal rung by Richard J Tilley. Recorded peal total is 13.
1995	First peal rung by Charles H Isitt. Recorded peal total is 21.
1996	First peal rung by Matthew J Gilbert. Recorded peal total is 10.
1996	First peal rung by Bill Carcary. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First peal rung by Audrey O'Leary. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Ron E Vears. Recorded peal total is 2.
1997	First peal rung by Greg Beeston. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First peal rung by Robert M Moody. Recorded peal total is 36.
2002	First peal rung by James R C Knowles. Recorded peal total is 4.
2003	First peal rung by Ruth Fauchon. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by Morley Bray. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by Kirby E Russell. Recorded peal total is 13.
2008	First peal rung by Raymond Kefford. Recorded peal total is 3.
2008	First peal rung by James N Griffin. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by R D Chris Lawton. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First peal rung by Brendan Lally. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Laura Amor. Recorded peal total is 3.
2019	First peal rung by Francis L Herne. Recorded peal total is 2.

First peals in towers for 23rd March

1728	First peal on the bells at Southwark, St Olave, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 14.
1851	First peal on the bells at Kirton in Holland, SS Peter & Paul, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 34.
1901	First peal on the bells at Abergavenny, St Mary, Monmouthshire. Recorded peal total is 201.
1901	First peal on the bells at Disley, St Mary the Virgin, Cheshire. Recorded peal total is 93.
1901	First peal on the bells at Fenton, Stoke on Trent, Christ Church, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 16.
1907	First peal on the bells at Berkswell, St John the Baptist, Warwickshire. Recorded peal total is 10.
1907	First peal on the bells at Cowesby, St Michael, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 4.
1907	First peal on the bells at Talgarth, St Gwendoline, Brecknockshire. Recorded peal total is 57.
1912	First peal on the bells at Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth, St Mary, Devon. Recorded peal total is 8.
1929	First peal on the bells at Rushmere St Andrew, St Andrew, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 44.
1935	First peal on the bells at East Bedfont, St Mary the Virgin, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 8.
1956	First peal on the bells at Sevenhampton, St James, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 1.
1963	First peal on the bells at Middle Woodford, All Saints, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 3.
1968	First peal on the bells at St Dominick, St Dominica, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 13.
1974	First peal on the bells at Broadwell, St Paul, Gloucestershire. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal on the bells at Tugby, St Thomas a Becket, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal on the bells at Funtington, St Mary, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 6.
2008	First peal on the bells at Lansdown, Bath, St Stephen, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 14.

First peals in method for 23rd March

1728	First tower bell peal of Single College Differential Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
1783	First tower bell peal of Old Double Caters. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First tower bell peal of Canterbury Pleasure Bob Caters. Recorded peal total is 3.
1950	First tower bell peal of Solihull Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 4.
1955	First tower bell peal of Aldridge Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1957	First tower bell peal of Allendale Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 16.
1965	First tower bell peal of Griffin Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 14.
1974	First tower bell peal of Healey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1974	First tower bell peal of Nailsea Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First tower bell peal of Prestbury Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Kirkburton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First tower bell peal of Shipway Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Wordsworth Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987	First tower bell peal of Titanic Cinques. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First tower bell peal of Royal Maundy Alliance Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
1990	First tower bell peal of Christ's College Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1991	First tower bell peal of Strathpeffer Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First tower bell peal of Veteranorum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1995	First tower bell peal of Courtleigh Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Dearne Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Juin Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1998	First tower bell peal of Ynysangharad Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First tower bell peal of Quidditch Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2004	First tower bell peal of Voskelly Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of West Hill Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Needlegate Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Quill Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2007	First tower bell peal of Danville Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of St Thomas's Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Yatesby Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Hobbs Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Magna Carta Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2013	First tower bell peal of St Clement's College Bob Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.