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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 4th October

Year	Event	Reference
1947	A band from the Lincoln Diocesan Guild rang the longest peal of London Surprise Major to date with one of 14,144 changes at Heydour, Lincs. John Freeman conducted the peal that had been composed by Rev H Law James. This composition was also used when the record on handbells was achieved thirty years later. See November 27, 1977.	nv
1980	The “Christophers” rang a peal of Yorkshire Surprise Royal at Chilvers Coton, Warwicks. See October 6, 1979 and October 3, 1981.	NP

Birthdays for 4th October

First pealers for 4th October

1896	First peal rung by James Heasman. Recorded peal total is 29.
1902	First peal rung by Harry T Burch. Recorded peal total is 6.
1902	First peal rung by R L Manley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1902	First peal rung by William J Manley. Recorded peal total is 15.
1902	First peal rung by Edward G Stocker. Recorded peal total is 18.
1902	First peal rung by James Piggott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by George Greenhill. Recorded peal total is 1.
1904	First peal rung by Harry W Bush. Recorded peal total is 14.
1907	First peal rung by Frederick Knowles. Recorded peal total is 4.
1910	First peal rung by William Davey. Recorded peal total is 3.
1910	First peal rung by Joseph Sandercock. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Harry Percival. Recorded peal total is 4.
1913	First peal rung by William J S Knights. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by William H Worsley. Recorded peal total is 9.
1913	First peal rung by Walter G Chance. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by Walter E Britten. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by Charles Kelly. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by Frederick [Colsterworth] Kelly. Recorded peal total is 3.
1913	First peal rung by Reuben Linney. Recorded peal total is 2.
1919	First peal rung by Thomas Shaw. Recorded peal total is 1.
1923	First peal rung by Eva Lewis. Recorded peal total is 7.
1923	First peal rung by John E S Moreton. Recorded peal total is 120.
1924	First peal rung by George [Buxted] Frost. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Frederick Bond. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by Norman Heeps. Recorded peal total is 3.
1924	First peal rung by Harry Beresford. Recorded peal total is 3.
1924	First peal rung by John G Cartlidge. Recorded peal total is 61.
1924	First peal rung by Henry Berrisford. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by James A Brackley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal rung by John Bennion_sen. Recorded peal total is 2.
1927	First peal rung by William Weetman. Recorded peal total is 5.
1928	First peal rung by Dolly Richards. Recorded peal total is 3.
1930	First peal rung by Edwin C Pitman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Lawrence Greenhow. Recorded peal total is 70.
1930	First peal rung by Horace [Sharow] Benson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by F W Cecil Curtis. Recorded peal total is 9.
1930	First peal rung by Robert Gaul. Recorded peal total is 2.
1930	First peal rung by George J Piper. Recorded peal total is 1.
1930	First peal rung by Alfred J Whittle. Recorded peal total is 4.
1930	First peal rung by Charles W [Peterborough] Woods. Recorded peal total is 58.
1930	First peal rung by William Insley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1923	First peal rung by Dorothy E Beamish. Recorded peal total is 129.
1934	First peal rung by Arthur Ellis. Recorded peal total is 6.
1935	First peal rung by Reginald W Dale. Recorded peal total is 1.
1947	First peal rung by Alexander Page. Recorded peal total is 37.
1947	First peal rung by Albert E Barley. Recorded peal total is 3.
1947	First peal rung by C Frank Butler. Recorded peal total is 3.
1947	First peal rung by William Measures. Recorded peal total is 3.
1947	First peal rung by Harry J [Besthorpe] Hall. Recorded peal total is 17.
1947	First peal rung by Ronald N Marlow. Recorded peal total is 445.
1947	First peal rung by Myrtle Cass. Recorded peal total is 8.
1947	First peal rung by June Dear. Recorded peal total is 2.
1947	First peal rung by Charles H Blake. Recorded peal total is 50.
1947	First peal rung by Frederick Ingall. Recorded peal total is 26.
1948	First peal rung by Robert W Ferris. Recorded peal total is 28.
1948	First peal rung by Edward B McDonald. Recorded peal total is 2.
1948	First peal rung by Anthony W T Cleaver. Recorded peal total is 130.
1949	First peal rung by David G Horn. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by Frederick C Gifford. Recorded peal total is 8.
1952	First peal rung by Jack Heath. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Richard A M [Horton] Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Dennis J F Oakshott. Recorded peal total is 7.
1952	First peal rung by John S Seager. Recorded peal total is 116.
1952	First peal rung by Henry J Comber. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Barbara J Mayers. Recorded peal total is 2.
1952	First peal rung by Bessie Saggers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Hilda M Snowden. Recorded peal total is 18.
1952	First peal rung by Harold W Moore. Recorded peal total is 21.
1954	First peal rung by Raymond H Moyle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1956	First peal rung by Roger W Barker. Recorded peal total is 20.
1958	First peal rung by Albert H Willis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1958	First peal rung by William C Budd. Recorded peal total is 5.
1958	First peal rung by Valerie P Colegrove. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Barbara Matthews. Recorded peal total is 4.
1958	First peal rung by Robin Rose. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Neville A King. Recorded peal total is 32.
1958	First peal rung by Derek Bedford. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Ian C Maycock. Recorded peal total is 363.
1958	First peal rung by Christine Sanders. Recorded peal total is 7.
1958	First peal rung by Stella T Trindall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1960	First peal rung by Patricia J Laycock. Recorded peal total is 36.
1961	First peal rung by Anne Dernley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1961	First peal rung by Anthony Applegarth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First peal rung by John G Beadman. Recorded peal total is 8.
1969	First peal rung by Frederick [Chester] Kelly. Recorded peal total is 6.
1970	First peal rung by John [Newtown Linford] Richardson. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First peal rung by Frederick J Kelley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1971	First peal rung by T Richard Davies. Recorded peal total is 28.
1972	First peal rung by Valerie Hewitt. Recorded peal total is 21.
1975	First peal rung by Philip J Huxley. Recorded peal total is 209.
1975	First peal rung by Rachel L Harrison. Recorded peal total is 13.
1975	First peal rung by Jolyon T Powell Davies. Recorded peal total is 2.
1975	First peal rung by John G [Chobham] Cook. Recorded peal total is 8.
1975	First peal rung by Richard J Eggleton. Recorded peal total is 4.
1975	First peal rung by Erica J Crabtree. Recorded peal total is 25.
1975	First peal rung by Philip F Pope. Recorded peal total is 384.
1975	First peal rung by Ronald H Cooper. Recorded peal total is 2.
1975	First peal rung by Dorothy J Nicholas. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First peal rung by David P Sworder. Recorded peal total is 40.
1980	First peal rung by Mary Blakey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by James A Brown. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by Michael J Ferris. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by David J Lodge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by Robert G Armstrong. Recorded peal total is 27.
1980	First peal rung by Simon W M Thorpe. Recorded peal total is 38.
1980	First peal rung by Sheila M [Melling] Williams. Recorded peal total is 2.
1980	First peal rung by Wendy E Colby. Recorded peal total is 19.
1983	First peal rung by Alison M Woodall. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First peal rung by Ian Duff. Recorded peal total is 663.
1986	First peal rung by Jennifer C Clark. Recorded peal total is 4.
1986	First peal rung by Duncan M Matheson. Recorded peal total is 40.
1986	First peal rung by Lesley M Egden. Recorded peal total is 3.
1986	First peal rung by Nigel J Saunders. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First peal rung by Alan A Eustace. Recorded peal total is 2.
1986	First peal rung by Judith F Venn. Recorded peal total is 15.
1986	First peal rung by Susan J Worth. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal rung by Brian Inglesfield. Recorded peal total is 17.
1989	First peal rung by James Rudge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Janet Underwood. Recorded peal total is 3.
1989	First peal rung by Jonathan G Underwood. Recorded peal total is 11.
1991	First peal rung by Clare L Rudd. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Jennie Higson. Recorded peal total is 337.
1992	First peal rung by M Ann Bailey. Recorded peal total is 3.
1992	First peal rung by Keith F A Copestake. Recorded peal total is 8.
1992	First peal rung by Karl E Loxton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by John A [Yardley] Rhodes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First peal rung by Robert A Verrey. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First peal rung by Lisa A Merriott. Recorded peal total is 11.
1997	First peal rung by Rosalind A Fox. Recorded peal total is 3.
1997	First peal rung by Rosanna K Wragg. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by David J Crocker. Recorded peal total is 57.
1998	First peal rung by Lesley Davies. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First peal rung by William J Morson. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First peal rung by Nicolas S Jolliffe. Recorded peal total is 2.
2006	First peal rung by John Boyle. Recorded peal total is 5.
2006	First peal rung by Pauline Boyle. Recorded peal total is 5.
2006	First peal rung by Linda Pelc. Recorded peal total is 34.
2008	First peal rung by Daniel Godber. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by Carl Wilby. Recorded peal total is 5.
2008	First peal rung by Jocelyn Lock. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First peal rung by Fred [Haughton] Price. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First peal rung by Susan M Gillett. Recorded peal total is 2.
2011	First peal rung by Peter W McKerracher. Recorded peal total is 1.
2018	First peal rung by David Spalding. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 4th October

1814	First peal on the bells at Droitwich, St Andrew, Worcestershire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1884	First peal on the bells at Skirbeck, St Nicholas, Lincolnshire. Recorded peal total is 13.
1890	First peal on the bells at Bushey, St James, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 983.
1890	First peal on the bells at Exeter, St David, Devon. Recorded peal total is 61.
1890	First peal on the bells at Sandhurst, St Michael & All Angels, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 32.
1896	First peal on the bells at Edenbridge, SS Peter & Paul, Kent. Recorded peal total is 205.
1899	First peal on the bells at Merstham, St Katharine, Surrey. Recorded peal total is 37.
1902	First peal on the bells at Blagdon, St Andrew, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 37.
1919	First peal on the bells at Collingtree, St Columba, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 6.
1930	First peal on the bells at Aston Abbots, St James the Great, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1947	First peal on the bells at Ludgershall, St James, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 22.
1947	First peal on the bells at Pylle, St Thomas of Canterbury, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 31.
1952	First peal on the bells at Seighford, St Chad, Staffordshire. Recorded peal total is 24.
1952	First peal on the bells at St Hilary, St Hilary, Glamorgan. Recorded peal total is 15.
1998	First peal on the bells at Ridge, St Margaret, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
2009	First peal on the bells at Moats Tye, St John the Baptist, mobile ring. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in method for 4th October

1930	First tower bell peal of Northumberland Surprise Minor. Recorded peal total is 10.
1951	First tower bell peal of Kensington Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First tower bell peal of Hillmorton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1969	First tower bell peal of Evesham Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 2.
1969	First tower bell peal of Quethiock Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 15.
1970	First tower bell peal of St Nicholas Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 4.
1971	First tower bell peal of Lanchester Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 3.
1975	First tower bell peal of Derventium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First tower bell peal of Easton Neston Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1985	First tower bell peal of Gleneagles Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1986	First tower bell peal of Misbourne Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1990	First tower bell peal of Peatling Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First tower bell peal of Aldenham Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Double Portsmouth Little Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1993	First tower bell peal of Irkutsk Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
1993	First tower bell peal of Mentmore Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Fincastle Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1997	First tower bell peal of Clevancy Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1998	First tower bell peal of Ridge Treble Place Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Rats Castle Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1999	First tower bell peal of Wras Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First tower bell peal of Staverton Treble Bob Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First tower bell peal of Septuaginta Little Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007	First tower bell peal of Ginger Pig Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Knighton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Muttaburrasaurus Landoni Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Prague Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Tickencote Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.