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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 26th August

Year	Event	Reference
1718	The Norwich Scholars rang what is generally regarded as the first true peal of Grandsire Triples at St Peter Mancroft. The peal took 3 hours 30 minutes, and the composition was by John Garthon. For many years this peal was disregarded as it was thought to be false, but a copy of the composition was found in one of the manuscript books of Dr Mason in Downing College Library, Cambridge and shown to be true.	G122
1776	The Society of College Youths rang 10,640 Plain Bob Major in 6 hours and 31 minutes at St Mary, Mortlake, Surrey, conducted by James Worster.	CY159
1908	The first peal of Original Major was rung at Ranmoor, Sheffield, conducted by Samuel Thomas.	nv
1921	Arthur T Morris tapped a peal of 5600 changes of London Surprise Major. It raised an intense controversy in The Ringing World that became at times more heated than any other subject in its previous history.	nv
1939	The first peal of Spliced Stedman and Erin Triples was rung at Bushey, Herts, conducted by Harold G Cashmore.	nv

Birthdays for 26th August

1862	Charles [Ealing] Edwards born
1876	Horace A Wright born

First pealers for 26th August

1893	First peal rung by Arthur Hallett. Recorded peal total is 22.
1893	First peal rung by Ralf Shepherd. Recorded peal total is 1.
1895	First peal rung by Ralph Ravenscroft. Recorded peal total is 10.
1903	First peal rung by Percy E Jones. Recorded peal total is 112.
1903	First peal rung by John [Reading] Goodenough. Recorded peal total is 6.
1903	First peal rung by Charles Moulden. Recorded peal total is 9.
1905	First peal rung by Charles Letzer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Bert [Deptford] Miller. Recorded peal total is 6.
1905	First peal rung by Frederick W Richardson. Recorded peal total is 130.
1905	First peal rung by George [Guildford] Nichols. Recorded peal total is 4.
1905	First peal rung by G Coxhead. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Edward C Gobey. Recorded peal total is 345.
1907	First peal rung by John [Bangor] Ward. Recorded peal total is 2.
1908	First peal rung by Maurice Ward. Recorded peal total is 17.
1909	First peal rung by Joseph T Dyke. Recorded peal total is 705.
1909	First peal rung by Hubert A B Plant. Recorded peal total is 1.
1911	First peal rung by David [Bacup] Barnes. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911	First peal rung by Reuben W Etherington. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911	First peal rung by James William Ratcliffe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1916	First peal rung by Charles Ayliffe. Recorded peal total is 7.
1920	First peal rung by Donald Harvey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Philip Downing. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Maud Gough. Recorded peal total is 1.
1922	First peal rung by Harold [Handsworth] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 17.
1922	First peal rung by Harold R Farnsworth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by John P [Haslemere] McDermott. Recorded peal total is 3.
1925	First peal rung by William J Chester. Recorded peal total is 255.
1931	First peal rung by E John Shynn. Recorded peal total is 6.
1933	First peal rung by Charles Lowe. Recorded peal total is 10.
1935	First peal rung by Myrtle Reason. Recorded peal total is 1.
1937	First peal rung by Victor G Oner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Cyril [Llangybi] Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by John Clarkson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Ernest H White. Recorded peal total is 1.
1939	First peal rung by Harold G White. Recorded peal total is 2.
1939	First peal rung by Wilfred P White. Recorded peal total is 1.
1944	First peal rung by Charles W Beecroft. Recorded peal total is 59.
1947	First peal rung by Joseph E Wilson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1949	First peal rung by Stephen J Ivin. Recorded peal total is 1524.
1950	First peal rung by Barbara Hough. Recorded peal total is 12.
1950	First peal rung by John L Hough. Recorded peal total is 10.
1950	First peal rung by J Julian Pawley. Recorded peal total is 83.
1950	First peal rung by Terry Yates. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Dennis W Green. Recorded peal total is 8.
1950	First peal rung by Geoffrey E Larner. Recorded peal total is 9.
1950	First peal rung by Ronald G Larner. Recorded peal total is 6.
1950	First peal rung by George R Powles. Recorded peal total is 4.
1952	First peal rung by Michael Hatchett. Recorded peal total is 2373.
1952	First peal rung by Derek W Stone. Recorded peal total is 21.
1953	First peal rung by Anthony J Sanger. Recorded peal total is 59.
1954	First peal rung by Christine M Ford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1954	First peal rung by Ian H Oram. Recorded peal total is 1246.
1959	First peal rung by Doreen A Morton. Recorded peal total is 14.
1959	First peal rung by Simon G Hooper. Recorded peal total is 1.
1959	First peal rung by Anthea M Morley. Recorded peal total is 12.
1959	First peal rung by Penelope J White. Recorded peal total is 2.
1961	First peal rung by Arthur Dunn-Birch. Recorded peal total is 11.
1961	First peal rung by Leslie Butler. Recorded peal total is 5.
1961	First peal rung by David Oliver. Recorded peal total is 87.
1965	First peal rung by Pauline H Willis. Recorded peal total is 1.
1965	First peal rung by John Laughton. Recorded peal total is 8.
1965	First peal rung by Leonard E Venables. Recorded peal total is 19.
1966	First peal rung by Brenda I Cox. Recorded peal total is 34.
1967	First peal rung by L Lyddon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Alan J Coombs. Recorded peal total is 11.
1967	First peal rung by Henry J Coombs. Recorded peal total is 7.
1967	First peal rung by Robert Perry. Recorded peal total is 1194.
1967	First peal rung by Benedict P Wilde. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by John [Apsley End] Pearce. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Roman E Sadowski. Recorded peal total is 724.
1969	First peal rung by Alison M Hill. Recorded peal total is 3.
1969	First peal rung by Philip R Wild. Recorded peal total is 891.
1970	First peal rung by Michael K Hopkins Till. Recorded peal total is 935.
1970	First peal rung by Graeme P Turner. Recorded peal total is 2.
1971	First peal rung by Alan Davis. Recorded peal total is 3.
1971	First peal rung by Thomas H Kingdon. Recorded peal total is 198.
1971	First peal rung by Leslie Needs. Recorded peal total is 3.
1971	First peal rung by David W Owen. Recorded peal total is 6.
1972	First peal rung by Richard J B Way. Recorded peal total is 9.
1972	First peal rung by Anthony F Andrews. Recorded peal total is 21.
1972	First peal rung by Anthony J Barnfield. Recorded peal total is 17.
1972	First peal rung by Peter W Hill. Recorded peal total is 692.
1972	First peal rung by Paul A Langman. Recorded peal total is 28.
1972	First peal rung by T Leslie Hodge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by W John Hodge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1972	First peal rung by C John Wills. Recorded peal total is 25.
1973	First peal rung by Brenda A Mayle. Recorded peal total is 154.
1974	First peal rung by Geoffrey N D Bruce. Recorded peal total is 2.
1974	First peal rung by Hazel B Baker. Recorded peal total is 97.
1975	First peal rung by David J Mossop. Recorded peal total is 149.
1976	First peal rung by S C James Padfield. Recorded peal total is 2.
1976	First peal rung by Ruth Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Philip W Maughan. Recorded peal total is 4.
1978	First peal rung by Brenda Gooding. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Ross A Litchfield. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Jenny E Rogers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Andrew G Wilmot. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First peal rung by Helen S Hughes. Recorded peal total is 15.
1978	First peal rung by Marian M Millington. Recorded peal total is 2.
1980	First peal rung by Leslie J Ames. Recorded peal total is 2.
1980	First peal rung by Fiona Maybrey. Recorded peal total is 4.
1980	First peal rung by Richard A Shakespear. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Janet M Reineck. Recorded peal total is 8.
1983	First peal rung by Andrew J [Wantage] Parker. Recorded peal total is 22.
1983	First peal rung by Gregory M Venn. Recorded peal total is 9.
1983	First peal rung by David E Webster. Recorded peal total is 4.
1983	First peal rung by Rowena Gay. Recorded peal total is 156.
1985	First peal rung by Christopher J Wilde. Recorded peal total is 7.
1986	First peal rung by David Holdridge. Recorded peal total is 564.
1987	First peal rung by Rachel J Chitham. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989	First peal rung by Lee Southall. Recorded peal total is 191.
1991	First peal rung by L Miranda Buck. Recorded peal total is 41.
1993	First peal rung by David Reynolds. Recorded peal total is 10.
1996	First peal rung by David R Cormie. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by David A R Holland. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Peter J [Eltham] Skinner. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First peal rung by William O Ogunyinka. Recorded peal total is 4.
2013	First peal rung by Louise M Flower. Recorded peal total is 3.
2018	First peal rung by Mark T Elvers. Recorded peal total is 8.

First peals in towers for 26th August

1900	First peal on the bells at Kingswood, St Andrew, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 22.
1905	First peal on the bells at Merrow, St John the Evangelist, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 16.
1925	First peal on the bells at Sudborough, All Saints, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1967	First peal on the bells at Preston next Wingham, St Mildred, Kent. Recorded peal total is 26.
1967	First peal on the bells at West Quantoxhead, St Etheldreda, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 8.
1985	First peal on the bells at Weare Giffard, Holy Trinity, Devon. Recorded peal total is 6.

First peals in method for 26th August

1718	First tower bell peal of Grandsire Triples. Recorded peal total is 23360.
1959	First tower bell peal of Sherborne Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First tower bell peal of Lambeth Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 14.
1963	First tower bell peal of Purbeck Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 13.
1967	First tower bell peal of Verney Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1972	First tower bell peal of Chanctonbury Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1976	First tower bell peal of Ashdon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1976	First tower bell peal of Helmshore Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 8.
1978	First tower bell peal of Agra Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First tower bell peal of Aligarh Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1978	First tower bell peal of Oadby Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1978	First tower bell peal of Portus Adurni Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First tower bell peal of Brierfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1980	First tower bell peal of Teston Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First tower bell peal of Stranton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Anglia Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 68.
1986	First tower bell peal of Mesembryanthemum Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1987	First tower bell peal of Sulphur Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1989	First tower bell peal of Whitemoor Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Diopside Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2003	First tower bell peal of Codsall Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2004	First tower bell peal of Leamington Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Brooksby Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Riverside Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Viewfield Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Derby Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.