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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 31st August

Year	Event	Reference
1857	This rhyme is on a board in the five-bell tower of St John the Evangelist, Ryhall, Rutland:er comes into this placeleasure for to take,ings a bell to him we telllaw with him we make.every time he turns a belle light or darken shall pay without delayence unto the Clark.s Holmes 1715	BR150
1886	A peal of Grandsire Caters at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh was recorded as the first ten-bell peal in Scotland.	nv
1904	Alfred Lawson, the owner of Mears and Stainbank, died.	Bell Foundry Poster
1912	Members of the Winchester Diocesan Guild rang, in the belfry of Holy Trinity, Guildford, a handbell peal of 19,738 Stedman Caters in 9 hours and 32 minutes. The peal, composed by Gabriel Lindoff and conducted by Alfred H Pulling, was the greatest number of changes ever rung by one set of ringers. They intended to go for 22,222 changes, but brought it round at the shorter length due to the lateness of the hour. See June 1 and August 5, 1912. This was only the fifth peal to exceed ten thousand changes to be rung in hand.	BN1912/155
1918	Bertram Prewitt was killed in action in France, aged 39. A conductor and handbell ringer of outstanding skill, he was one of the band formed by William Pye, and rang in many of his famous peals, including the 18,027 Stedman Caters at Loughborough. (See April 12, 1909.) During his relatively short ringing life he achieved nearly a thousand peals, an extraordinary number at that time. See October 12, 1878.	nv

Birthdays for 31st August

First pealers for 31st August

1893	First peal rung by Cyril Herbert. Recorded peal total is 74.
1879	First peal rung by Henry J Tucker. Recorded peal total is 185.
1889	First peal rung by James Smith_sen. Recorded peal total is 17.
1897	First peal rung by Edgar H G Tingey. Recorded peal total is 25.
1899	First peal rung by William T Tucker. Recorded peal total is 258.
1903	First peal rung by H Drake. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by Thomas [Cardiff] Cox. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Thomas Collier. Recorded peal total is 2.
1912	First peal rung by Ernest J Butler. Recorded peal total is 265.
1912	First peal rung by George W Playle. Recorded peal total is 7.
1912	First peal rung by Ernest [Bentley] King. Recorded peal total is 1.
1913	First peal rung by P Sturgeon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1915	First peal rung by John Kearon. Recorded peal total is 5.
1923	First peal rung by Fred Blacklidge. Recorded peal total is 43.
1927	First peal rung by Horace P Giles. Recorded peal total is 4.
1929	First peal rung by Everard Davenport. Recorded peal total is 3.
1929	First peal rung by John [Leyton] Bullen. Recorded peal total is 3.
1931	First peal rung by William [Newport] Hall. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick Prouse. Recorded peal total is 7.
1932	First peal rung by Herbert H Alexander. Recorded peal total is 141.
1946	First peal rung by Robert H Begrie. Recorded peal total is 44.
1946	First peal rung by Hazel Cooke. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946	First peal rung by Miss K Pitchforth. Recorded peal total is 2.
1946	First peal rung by Arnold G Bown. Recorded peal total is 4.
1946	First peal rung by H Bown. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946	First peal rung by H Cox. Recorded peal total is 1.
1946	First peal rung by Francis J White. Recorded peal total is 21.
1948	First peal rung by Dennis R Airey. Recorded peal total is 27.
1949	First peal rung by Stanley D Sutton. Recorded peal total is 21.
1954	First peal rung by Harold E Clayton. Recorded peal total is 22.
1955	First peal rung by Bridget Heighton. Recorded peal total is 13.
1955	First peal rung by Robert C Kippin. Recorded peal total is 2654.
1957	First peal rung by Cyril E Densham. Recorded peal total is 1.
1957	First peal rung by John G Cull. Recorded peal total is 25.
1957	First peal rung by John F M Maybrey. Recorded peal total is 117.
1958	First peal rung by Laurence Kindle. Recorded peal total is 1.
1958	First peal rung by Reginald Lucas. Recorded peal total is 2.
1959	First peal rung by Ruth M Foreman. Recorded peal total is 360.
1960	First peal rung by Doris M Smith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1960	First peal rung by Clive R Calton. Recorded peal total is 444.
1961	First peal rung by Frank H King. Recorded peal total is 193.
1961	First peal rung by Pamela E Key. Recorded peal total is 26.
1962	First peal rung by Janet D Phillips. Recorded peal total is 10.
1963	First peal rung by Robert G Oakley. Recorded peal total is 7.
1966	First peal rung by Annette [Higham on the Hill] Taylor. Recorded peal total is 1.
1966	First peal rung by Richard Huddleston. Recorded peal total is 2.
1967	First peal rung by Angela M Britton. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by Peter Goodyear. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by William [Compton Bishop] Warren. Recorded peal total is 8.
1968	First peal rung by Martin R Kitson. Recorded peal total is 261.
1968	First peal rung by Catherine [Stapleford] Pedley. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by William H Pedley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Maurice Laborda. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Julie A Haseldine. Recorded peal total is 1125.
1970	First peal rung by Adrian D Tyler. Recorded peal total is 35.
1971	First peal rung by David J Hamby. Recorded peal total is 83.
1974	First peal rung by Nicholas J Fulford. Recorded peal total is 24.
1974	First peal rung by Nigel Turner. Recorded peal total is 1.
1974	First peal rung by Simon C Milliken. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First peal rung by Mervyn Short. Recorded peal total is 4.
1975	First peal rung by Margaret Arrowsmith. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First peal rung by Norman J Arrowsmith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1975	First peal rung by Malcolm Gittoes. Recorded peal total is 11.
1975	First peal rung by John B Shallcross. Recorded peal total is 145.
1977	First peal rung by Julian B Earl. Recorded peal total is 2.
1979	First peal rung by Gwyn Howells. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by William L Robinson. Recorded peal total is 3.
1979	First peal rung by Marianna Tegeltia. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First peal rung by Rhys P Williams. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First peal rung by Timothy J Jefferis. Recorded peal total is 6.
1982	First peal rung by Patrick Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1984	First peal rung by David A [Harby] Smith. Recorded peal total is 2.
1985	First peal rung by Alistair B Christison. Recorded peal total is 11.
1986	First peal rung by Louise Hart. Recorded peal total is 25.
1986	First peal rung by David J Hewlett. Recorded peal total is 12.
1986	First peal rung by Helen E Plater. Recorded peal total is 2.
1988	First peal rung by Paul E Rayner. Recorded peal total is 7.
1988	First peal rung by Hannah M Turvey. Recorded peal total is 1.
1989	First peal rung by Julian B L Goodridge. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Pip N Jones. Recorded peal total is 1.
1991	First peal rung by Richard A Wolfgang. Recorded peal total is 88.
1991	First peal rung by Thomas W Ridgman. Recorded peal total is 44.
1991	First peal rung by Duncan G Mills. Recorded peal total is 1.
1992	First peal rung by L Dawn Ogilvie. Recorded peal total is 10.
1992	First peal rung by Louise A Baskerville. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Joanne C Waldren. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Sheila A Allen. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Andrew J Pointon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1996	First peal rung by Alan A Morris. Recorded peal total is 3.
1996	First peal rung by Andrew M Peters. Recorded peal total is 13.
1996	First peal rung by Stephen M Shanks. Recorded peal total is 8.
1997	First peal rung by Douglas H Johnson. Recorded peal total is 7.
2001	First peal rung by Ray Chalk. Recorded peal total is 3.
2001	First peal rung by Richard T Fenton. Recorded peal total is 4.
2002	First peal rung by Andrew F Parrott. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First peal rung by Paul Platt. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First peal rung by Alan L Matthews. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First peal rung by Lucy Dawson. Recorded peal total is 2.
2002	First peal rung by Stephen Dawson. Recorded peal total is 5.
2002	First peal rung by Clarence Challoner. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First peal rung by David C Challoner. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First peal rung by Christopher J Hough. Recorded peal total is 4.
2007	First peal rung by Roxy E Peach. Recorded peal total is 1.
2014	First peal rung by Anne Toussaint. Recorded peal total is 2.
2014	First peal rung by Neil Toussaint. Recorded peal total is 12.
2015	First peal rung by Benjamin D East. Recorded peal total is 2.
2015	First peal rung by Sadie Slack. Recorded peal total is 2.
2017	First peal rung by Stella Y Warren. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 31st August

1801	First peal on the bells at Hemel Hempstead, St Mary, Hertfordshire. Recorded peal total is 123.
1809	First peal on the bells at Skipton in Craven, Holy Trinity, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 206.
1812	First peal on the bells at Ormskirk, SS Peter & Paul, Lancashire. Recorded peal total is 154.
1886	First peal on the bells at Edinburgh, St Mary, Midlothian. Recorded peal total is 82.
1901	First peal on the bells at Llangattock, St Cattwg, Brecknockshire. Recorded peal total is 26.
1912	First peal on the bells at Beachampton, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 10.
1912	First peal on the bells at Bentley, St Mary, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 21.
1924	First peal on the bells at Bourn, SS Helena & Mary, Cambridgeshire. Recorded peal total is 118.
1927	First peal on the bells at Woughton on the Green, Milton Keynes, St Mary, Buckinghamshire. Recorded peal total is 8.
1937	First peal on the bells at Northrepps, St Mary, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 45.
1948	First peal on the bells at Gainford, St Mary, Durham. Recorded peal total is 8.
1955	First peal on the bells at Flitwick, SS Peter & Paul, Bedfordshire. Recorded peal total is 15.
1957	First peal on the bells at Milnthorpe, St Thomas, Westmorland. Recorded peal total is 9.
1957	First peal on the bells at Wittersham, St John the Baptist, Kent. Recorded peal total is 31.
1987	First peal on the bells at Southwick, St James-without-the-Priory-Gate, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 10.
1997	First peal on the bells at Newmarket, Mindinho-le-Tower, Suffolk. Recorded peal total is 287.
2003	First peal on the bells at Ayston, St Mary the Virgin, Rutland. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First peal on the bells at Taney, Christ Church, Dublin. Recorded peal total is 7.

First peals in method for 31st August

1923	First tower bell peal of Canterbury Pleasure Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1935	First tower bell peal of Beaconsfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1967	First tower bell peal of Hastings Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
1968	First tower bell peal of Petworth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 19.
1970	First tower bell peal of Aldwickbury Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1977	First tower bell peal of Prince Consort Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First tower bell peal of Firwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1979	First tower bell peal of Salterforth Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1982	First tower bell peal of Adderbury Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1983	First tower bell peal of Ozone Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 14.
1985	First tower bell peal of Whitfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1986	First tower bell peal of Sailly-Saillisel Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1988	First tower bell peal of River Glen Surprise Maximus. Recorded peal total is 3.
1990	First tower bell peal of Gallipoli Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 10.
1993	First tower bell peal of Dalmuir Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Xenocryst Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 9.
1996	First tower bell peal of Woodmancote Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1999	First tower bell peal of Millhouse Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2001	First tower bell peal of Odyssey Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
2001	First tower bell peal of Potterspury Hybrid Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of Empingham Hybrid Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First tower bell peal of Ayston Differential Minimus. Recorded peal total is 1.
2003	First tower bell peal of Firkin Treble Bob Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2004	First tower bell peal of Hooch Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2007	First tower bell peal of Pertwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2008	First tower bell peal of Woolly Jumper Hybrid Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of Leatherhead Alliance Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2009	First tower bell peal of New Romney Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Oatfield Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
2013	First tower bell peal of Xavier Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.