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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 8th October

Year	Event	Reference
1900	The first non-conducted peal on ten bells was rung on handbells in “The King and Crown”, Leicester. John Lancashire, George Cleal, Samuel Cotton, William Willson and John Buttery rang 5010 Stedman Caters at their sixth attempt.	nv
1981	A peal of 5024 Cambridge Surprise Maximus rung at Hereford was the 2,000th peal of Surprise to be rung on handbells.	nv

Birthdays for 8th October

First pealers for 8th October

1892	First peal rung by Harry Hoskins. Recorded peal total is 233.
1887	First peal rung by William [Kent] Haigh. Recorded peal total is 151.
1900	First peal rung by Arthur Painter. Recorded peal total is 26.
1901	First peal rung by John Deeks. Recorded peal total is 2.
1901	First peal rung by Thomas FitzJohn. Recorded peal total is 45.
1903	First peal rung by Percy Alexander. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by A O Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by Sydney M Toxton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by W R Heaton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1903	First peal rung by John W Tilley. Recorded peal total is 8.
1904	First peal rung by James R Newman. Recorded peal total is 57.
1904	First peal rung by Mark Melia. Recorded peal total is 7.
1907	First peal rung by William R Beard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by Thomas Thorpe. Recorded peal total is 2.
1907	First peal rung by Oliver C W Fryer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by Herbert F Lambert. Recorded peal total is 1.
1907	First peal rung by William J Lovett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Hugh W Gregory. Recorded peal total is 17.
1908	First peal rung by Bertie J Howchin. Recorded peal total is 138.
1910	First peal rung by Charles Errey. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by Hugh Reynolds. Recorded peal total is 22.
1910	First peal rung by Edward Berry. Recorded peal total is 1.
1910	First peal rung by Arthur Cavill. Recorded peal total is 4.
1910	First peal rung by Walter Date. Recorded peal total is 2.
1910	First peal rung by Wallace Manning. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911	First peal rung by William G Webb. Recorded peal total is 2.
1913	First peal rung by Hubert Bowen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by Gilbert R Goodship. Recorded peal total is 148.
1913	First peal rung by Charles H Pullen. Recorded peal total is 37.
1921	First peal rung by Henry T Barnes. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by James Carrott. Recorded peal total is 7.
1921	First peal rung by William G Gigg. Recorded peal total is 187.
1921	First peal rung by Frank Holman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by William T Lucas. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Percy Sugg. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Reginald Sugg. Recorded peal total is 1.
1924	First peal rung by George T Jennings. Recorded peal total is 31.
1927	First peal rung by Percy L Johnson. Recorded peal total is 53.
1927	First peal rung by Fred Fowler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1927	First peal rung by Ethel R Grey. Recorded peal total is 25.
1927	First peal rung by Roger W D Wetenhall. Recorded peal total is 129.
1927	First peal rung by Clarence Law. Recorded peal total is 1.
1929	First peal rung by Ernest W Savage. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by George Batterbee. Recorded peal total is 6.
1931	First peal rung by George W Blowers. Recorded peal total is 2.
1931	First peal rung by Albert W Bugg. Recorded peal total is 3.
1931	First peal rung by John H Pitcher. Recorded peal total is 5.
1931	First peal rung by Fred Rix. Recorded peal total is 15.
1932	First peal rung by C Alfred Levett. Recorded peal total is 93.
1932	First peal rung by Harry Homer. Recorded peal total is 22.
1932	First peal rung by Ronald J C Hagley. Recorded peal total is 54.
1932	First peal rung by George S Joy. Recorded peal total is 1.
1932	First peal rung by F William Leach. Recorded peal total is 4.
1933	First peal rung by Dorothy F Smith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Thomas A E Hebditch. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by John B Shutler. Recorded peal total is 1.
1933	First peal rung by Harry T Vickery. Recorded peal total is 1.
1935	First peal rung by Norman [Wednesbury] Berry. Recorded peal total is 5.
1935	First peal rung by William Mounsey. Recorded peal total is 2.
1938	First peal rung by K Eric Harvey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Reginald G Woodland. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Wilfred Gowing. Recorded peal total is 3.
1938	First peal rung by Frederick W Blatch. Recorded peal total is 8.
1938	First peal rung by Gerald Frost. Recorded peal total is 86.
1947	First peal rung by Dennis Kirk. Recorded peal total is 1.
1948	First peal rung by Peggy Lamb. Recorded peal total is 8.
1949	First peal rung by John Sterry. Recorded peal total is 5.
1949	First peal rung by Fred Cowling. Recorded peal total is 19.
1949	First peal rung by John Campbell. Recorded peal total is 23.
1949	First peal rung by John J Fielding. Recorded peal total is 36.
1949	First peal rung by David R G Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by John Bracken. Recorded peal total is 1.
1950	First peal rung by Jack Shuttleworth. Recorded peal total is 1.
1952	First peal rung by Robert D Stroud. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Harry B Fuller. Recorded peal total is 147.
1953	First peal rung by Henry Ivings. Recorded peal total is 31.
1953	First peal rung by Gordon Peck. Recorded peal total is 1.
1954	First peal rung by George E Howlett. Recorded peal total is 13.
1955	First peal rung by W Rosemarie Chapman. Recorded peal total is 7.
1955	First peal rung by Valerie M Tumber. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First peal rung by K John Panter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1960	First peal rung by Peter A Slight. Recorded peal total is 193.
1960	First peal rung by Andrew S Hudson. Recorded peal total is 259.
1961	First peal rung by Nicholas R J Tumber. Recorded peal total is 8.
1966	First peal rung by Martyn Matthews. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by David C Brown. Recorded peal total is 5536.
1966	First peal rung by W Robert Hare. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Geoffrey J Clark. Recorded peal total is 4.
1975	First peal rung by Peter J Mack. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First peal rung by Paul T Barns. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Paul W Botting. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Jeffery Young. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Michael Denmark. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Andrew N Bowmer. Recorded peal total is 6.
1977	First peal rung by Jane M Bowmer. Recorded peal total is 1.
1977	First peal rung by Colin G Haworth. Recorded peal total is 2.
1978	First peal rung by Derek J Camm. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First peal rung by Sonia C Roche. Recorded peal total is 2.
1983	First peal rung by David E Coleman. Recorded peal total is 65.
1983	First peal rung by Ros Haines. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Shaun Giltrap. Recorded peal total is 5.
1983	First peal rung by Frances Bourne. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Simon J Howell. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First peal rung by Mark A Fewster. Recorded peal total is 4.
1984	First peal rung by Brenda M Greenland. Recorded peal total is 3.
1987	First peal rung by Samantha L Hall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Andrew G Glover. Recorded peal total is 21.
1988	First peal rung by Pat N Storr. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Rachel E Maynard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Pamela Bragg. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Michael A Curnow. Recorded peal total is 3.
1988	First peal rung by Rachel M King. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Jacky Lawton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Sue L Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Frances Cunningham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First peal rung by Andrew R C Kelso. Recorded peal total is 198.
1988	First peal rung by Deborah J Hale. Recorded peal total is 3.
1994	First peal rung by Graham A Johnson. Recorded peal total is 6.
1994	First peal rung by John H Johnson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1994	First peal rung by Lucy C Johnson. Recorded peal total is 5.
1994	First peal rung by Helen E Rudge. Recorded peal total is 3.
1994	First peal rung by Simon C Bickersteth. Recorded peal total is 1.
2000	First peal rung by Zoe J Goodwin. Recorded peal total is 10.
2000	First peal rung by Deborah M Hay. Recorded peal total is 23.
2005	First peal rung by Alexandra J Marchbank. Recorded peal total is 41.
2005	First peal rung by Alastair E MacLachlan. Recorded peal total is 1.
2005	First peal rung by Emma L Baxter. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First peal rung by Edward Donnen. Recorded peal total is 2.
2008	First peal rung by Tom Britten. Recorded peal total is 35.
2011	First peal rung by Patrick W J Deakin. Recorded peal total is 240.
2011	First peal rung by Wendy Gill. Recorded peal total is 7.
2011	First peal rung by Amy L M Hurlock. Recorded peal total is 6.
2011	First peal rung by Anthony P Matthews. Recorded peal total is 28.
2014	First peal rung by Thomas W Johnson. Recorded peal total is 3.
2015	First peal rung by Lisa Clarke. Recorded peal total is 5.
2016	First peal rung by Kevin D Clifton. Recorded peal total is 1.
2017	First peal rung by Sarah Moriarty. Recorded peal total is 2.
2017	First peal rung by Alison N Stevens. Recorded peal total is 15.
2022	First peal rung by Harriet Ward. Recorded peal total is 2.
2023	First peal rung by James T Ellis. Recorded peal total is 6.
2023	First peal rung by Thomas W Green. Recorded peal total is 3.

First peals in towers for 8th October

1781	First peal on the bells at Finchingfield, St John the Baptist, Essex. Recorded peal total is 34.
1786	First peal on the bells at Solihull, St Alphege, Warwickshire. Recorded peal total is 211.
1887	First peal on the bells at Beenham Valence, St Mary, Berkshire. Recorded peal total is 27.
1892	First peal on the bells at Yateley, St Peter, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 48.
1901	First peal on the bells at Rushford, St John the Evangelist, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 1.
1902	First peal on the bells at Bovey Tracey, SS Peter, Paul & Thomas of Canterbury, Devon. Recorded peal total is 27.
1907	First peal on the bells at Camborne, SS Martin & Meriadoc, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 24.
1907	First peal on the bells at Kenwyn, Truro, St Keyne, Cornwall. Recorded peal total is 96.
1927	First peal on the bells at Earl Stonham, St Mary, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 21.
1938	First peal on the bells at Fyfield, St Nicholas, Essex. Recorded peal total is 56.
1960	First peal on the bells at Hillesden, All Saints, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 9.
1960	First peal on the bells at Stoke Doyle, St Rumbald, Northamptonshire. Recorded peal total is 11.
1983	First peal on the bells at Great Bedwyn, St Mary, Wiltshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1989	First peal on the bells at Godmersham, St Lawrence the Martyr, Kent. Recorded peal total is 7.

First peals in method for 8th October

1887	First tower bell peal of Duffield Major. Recorded peal total is 61.
1938	First tower bell peal of Woodston Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1955	First tower bell peal of Sleaford Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1960	First tower bell peal of Sawley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1960	First tower bell peal of Tamworth Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 9.
1969	First tower bell peal of Tuffley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 8.
1971	First tower bell peal of Toft Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 6.
1973	First tower bell peal of Cambridgeshire Court Bob Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1980	First tower bell peal of Palladium Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1983	First tower bell peal of Aldwincle Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Eastwood Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1988	First tower bell peal of Botis Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First tower bell peal of Beeston Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Nunney Castle 4-6-0 Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1995	First tower bell peal of Inworth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First tower bell peal of Qomolangma Feng Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
2000	First tower bell peal of Lufkin Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Llandaff Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Xanthoria Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First tower bell peal of Century Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
2003	First tower bell peal of Withywood Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2006	First tower bell peal of Barrow-upon-Humber Bob Doubles. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Compton Greenfield Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of St Agatha Bob Triples. Recorded peal total is 3.
2012	First tower bell peal of Radlett Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First tower bell peal of Edenham Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Clevedon Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Earl Of Devon Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.