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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 7th March

Year	Event	Reference
1749	The Croydon Youths rang 5,040 Bob Major at Croydon.	nv
1819	A peal of 10,080 changes of Bob Major was recorded at Great Baddow in Essex. The account continues: “ . . .. called by Joseph Howard, and ably brought round in five hours and fifty minutes, being the master-piece of the art ever performed in the county.” The band was from Chelmsford.	nv
1895	Leonard Proctor died, aged 79. The Squire of Benington, Herts, he was instrumental in getting the bells of the parish church augmented to eight in 1838. See January 29, 1838. A keen ringer from his boyhood, he built up from amongst his personal servants one of the best bands in the country. After their first peal in 1849, they rang peals of Double Norwich, Kent Treble Bob and Superlative Surprise Major, of which only four peals had been previously rung. His band also rang the third ever peal of London and the first true peal of Cambridge Surprise Major. He joined the Society of Cumberland Youths in 1838 and was a founder member of the Hertford County Association. See January 29, 1816.	RW1982/610
1981	The Ancient Society of College Youths rang three non-conducted peals in a day; Stedman Triples at St Margaret's, Uxbridge; Stedman Caters at Isleworth and Stedman Cinques at St Leonard's, Shoreditch.	nv
1981	A band of ringers, all with the Christian name of David, rang a peal of London Surprise Royal at All Saints, Worcester, conducted by David C Brown. This was the first, and so far, (2002) the only name band to ring a peal of London Surprise Royal. . They had rung four earlier name peals. See March 18, 1967.	NP
1992	Matthew R T Higby at 17 years and 181 days old became the youngest person to ring the 56cwt tenor at Wells Cathedral to a peal.	nv

Birthdays for 7th March

First pealers for 7th March

1893	First peal rung by Henry [Quedgeley] Ford. Recorded peal total is 6.
1903	First peal rung by James Blott. Recorded peal total is 12.
1903	First peal rung by Alfred Bryant. Recorded peal total is 5.
1903	First peal rung by Arthur Daniels. Recorded peal total is 4.
1903	First peal rung by Alfred Pratt. Recorded peal total is 20.
1903	First peal rung by Charles [Clifton] Pratt. Recorded peal total is 3.
1903	First peal rung by Thomas Pateman. Recorded peal total is 8.
1905	First peal rung by E B Barter. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by William Corney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Thomas Meade. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by George Pitman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1905	First peal rung by Thomas [Greinton] Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1908	First peal rung by Alfred Joyce. Recorded peal total is 19.
1908	First peal rung by M Charman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1889	First peal rung by Albert Everett. Recorded peal total is 2.
1911	First peal rung by Charles P Chalk. Recorded peal total is 18.
1911	First peal rung by Harry M Kebby. Recorded peal total is 5.
1911	First peal rung by E Breeze_jun. Recorded peal total is 1.
1912	First peal rung by Edward Roberts. Recorded peal total is 1.
1914	First peal rung by E George Trew. Recorded peal total is 58.
1914	First peal rung by Herbert [Sampford Brett] Groves. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by William J Dickens. Recorded peal total is 1.
1921	First peal rung by Irene L Hastie. Recorded peal total is 37.
1922	First peal rung by Keith White. Recorded peal total is 2.
1924	First peal rung by Henry Parker. Recorded peal total is 340.
1924	First peal rung by John S Royle. Recorded peal total is 26.
1925	First peal rung by William E Robinson. Recorded peal total is 58.
1925	First peal rung by Mrs F Burnett. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Percival Giles. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Frederick Anslow. Recorded peal total is 1.
1925	First peal rung by Albert Heath. Recorded peal total is 4.
1925	First peal rung by John [Bethnal Green] Martin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by James H Parrott. Recorded peal total is 2.
1925	First peal rung by Sidney Penfold. Recorded peal total is 20.
1925	First peal rung by Frederick [Bethnal Green] Smith. Recorded peal total is 4.
1925	First peal rung by Walter W Stevens. Recorded peal total is 3.
1925	First peal rung by Tom Fletcher. Recorded peal total is 1.
1926	First peal rung by Nelson E Elliott. Recorded peal total is 339.
1926	First peal rung by Cecil Nice. Recorded peal total is 177.
1927	First peal rung by Cyril Mathers. Recorded peal total is 4.
1928	First peal rung by Harry [Longton] Hall. Recorded peal total is 15.
1931	First peal rung by Stanley H A Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Frederick A Rye. Recorded peal total is 23.
1931	First peal rung by William A Terry. Recorded peal total is 10.
1931	First peal rung by George Allam. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by John R Gerring. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by Eric J F Hanks. Recorded peal total is 3.
1934	First peal rung by A Hickman. Recorded peal total is 1.
1936	First peal rung by Charles [Cheltenham] Collier. Recorded peal total is 2.
1936	First peal rung by Henry C Adams. Recorded peal total is 11.
1936	First peal rung by John L Hinde. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by Albert E Perkin. Recorded peal total is 2.
1938	First peal rung by Henry N Rogers. Recorded peal total is 1.
1938	First peal rung by John P Sims. Recorded peal total is 9.
1938	First peal rung by Eileen V Westcott. Recorded peal total is 1.
1943	First peal rung by Margaret L Tutt. Recorded peal total is 142.
1949	First peal rung by Donald R Hinksman. Recorded peal total is 7.
1949	First peal rung by William Hinksman. Recorded peal total is 12.
1949	First peal rung by Rowland L Price. Recorded peal total is 25.
1949	First peal rung by Clifford J Wall. Recorded peal total is 5.
1950	First peal rung by David A Edwards. Recorded peal total is 20.
1950	First peal rung by Claire M Isles. Recorded peal total is 3.
1951	First peal rung by John Whitney. Recorded peal total is 1.
1951	First peal rung by John [Swithland] Chambers. Recorded peal total is 7.
1931	First peal rung by Stanley A H Ward. Recorded peal total is 1.
1931	First peal rung by George Allum. Recorded peal total is 1.
1953	First peal rung by Montague J Soper. Recorded peal total is 2.
1953	First peal rung by Martyn Hawkes. Recorded peal total is 153.
1953	First peal rung by Betty Burton. Recorded peal total is 3.
1957	First peal rung by Henry K Harrison. Recorded peal total is 7.
1957	First peal rung by Leslie Harrison. Recorded peal total is 4.
1959	First peal rung by Jennifer M Gambling. Recorded peal total is 7.
1959	First peal rung by Antony R Kench. Recorded peal total is 708.
1959	First peal rung by Yvonne A Tilley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Harry Shilvock. Recorded peal total is 2.
1964	First peal rung by Barbara G Dale. Recorded peal total is 9.
1964	First peal rung by Trevor R Bassett. Recorded peal total is 6.
1964	First peal rung by John W D Miller. Recorded peal total is 11.
1964	First peal rung by Keith R Goddard. Recorded peal total is 1.
1964	First peal rung by Shirley E McGill. Recorded peal total is 3077.
1966	First peal rung by Francis M Byrne. Recorded peal total is 783.
1967	First peal rung by Susan Wilcox. Recorded peal total is 1.
1967	First peal rung by John Capps. Recorded peal total is 2.
1968	First peal rung by Bruce Whatley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1968	First peal rung by Graham A Duke. Recorded peal total is 1797.
1970	First peal rung by Ian W Davies. Recorded peal total is 635.
1970	First peal rung by Eric T Rice. Recorded peal total is 7.
1970	First peal rung by Linda J Baker. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970	First peal rung by Marion A Cass. Recorded peal total is 4.
1970	First peal rung by Ian Messenger. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Ian Earl. Recorded peal total is 1.
1970	First peal rung by Steven J Coleman. Recorded peal total is 17.
1976	First peal rung by Ann P LeMarechal. Recorded peal total is 222.
1977	First peal rung by Richard Sproat. Recorded peal total is 19.
1980	First peal rung by Alison J Iliffe. Recorded peal total is 133.
1981	First peal rung by Paul Cherry. Recorded peal total is 3.
1981	First peal rung by A Jeremy Piercy. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by C Lynne Stretton. Recorded peal total is 30.
1981	First peal rung by Charles J Knight. Recorded peal total is 8.
1981	First peal rung by Peter [Caterham] Jones. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by Catherine A Freeborn. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by Timothy C Hadley. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Andrew Lewis. Recorded peal total is 2.
1981	First peal rung by Nancy P Korendyke. Recorded peal total is 18.
1981	First peal rung by Hugh W Baxter. Recorded peal total is 17.
1981	First peal rung by Mary L Sargeant. Recorded peal total is 1.
1981	First peal rung by Simon W Greaves. Recorded peal total is 3.
1981	First peal rung by Christopher Jenks. Recorded peal total is 3.
1982	First peal rung by Susan A Jenner. Recorded peal total is 12.
1985	First peal rung by D Paul Beard. Recorded peal total is 21.
1987	First peal rung by Kaye F Perryman. Recorded peal total is 43.
1987	First peal rung by Monica J Dixon. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by David R Bardwell. Recorded peal total is 10.
1987	First peal rung by David A James. Recorded peal total is 1.
1987	First peal rung by Alison C Webber. Recorded peal total is 53.
1992	First peal rung by Richard H Laing. Recorded peal total is 66.
1992	First peal rung by Dorothy G Hall. Recorded peal total is 93.
1992	First peal rung by Helen S Cozens. Recorded peal total is 2.
1992	First peal rung by Michael J McTiffin. Recorded peal total is 20.
1992	First peal rung by Victoria A L Turner. Recorded peal total is 38.
1994	First peal rung by Devena P Haggis. Recorded peal total is 7.
2006	First peal rung by Andrew Lord. Recorded peal total is 34.
2007	First peal rung by William D Drury. Recorded peal total is 17.
2009	First peal rung by Lucy C Stewart. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First peal rung by Richard Dooley. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First peal rung by Ian M Parker. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First peal rung by John Westby. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by George E Wrycroft. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First peal rung by Rosanna M Wareham. Recorded peal total is 1.
2020	First peal rung by Simon W Edmonds. Recorded peal total is 1.

First peals in towers for 7th March

1768	First peal on the bells at Isleworth, All Saints, Middlesex. Recorded peal total is 1001.
1777	First peal on the bells at Alton, St Lawrence, Hampshire. Recorded peal total is 99.
1831	First peal on the bells at Leicester, St Mary de Castro, Leicestershire. Recorded peal total is 589.
1874	First peal on the bells at Bridgnorth, St Leonard, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 51.
1904	First peal on the bells at Burgess Hill, St John the Evangelist, Sussex. Recorded peal total is 52.
1905	First peal on the bells at Greinton, St Michael & All Angels, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 4.
1920	First peal on the bells at Whitwell, Reepham, St Michael & All Angels, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 25.
1931	First peal on the bells at Buckland in the Moor, St Peter, Devon. Recorded peal total is 52.
1931	First peal on the bells at Compton Bishop, St Andrew, Somerset. Recorded peal total is 52.
1936	First peal on the bells at Tong, St Bartholomew, Shropshire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1938	First peal on the bells at Plymstock, Plymouth, St Mary & All Saints, Devon. Recorded peal total is 2.
1955	First peal on the bells at Ketteringham, St Peter, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 19.
1964	First peal on the bells at Scalby, St Laurence, Yorkshire. Recorded peal total is 12.
1967	First peal on the bells at Drayton, St Margaret, Norfolk. Recorded peal total is 51.

First peals in method for 7th March

1777	First tower bell peal of Grandsire Doubles. Recorded peal total is 5292.
1956	First tower bell peal of Hungarton Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1962	First tower bell peal of Crowland Delight Minor. Recorded peal total is 2.
1970	First tower bell peal of Cheddar Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 14.
1970	First tower bell peal of Llandaff Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1975	First tower bell peal of Woodley Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
1977	First tower bell peal of Carmarthen Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 7.
1982	First tower bell peal of Richard Harris's Cat Little Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1987	First tower bell peal of Muckhart Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
1994	First tower bell peal of Oakwood Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 2.
1996	First tower bell peal of Himalia Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Clift Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 5.
1997	First tower bell peal of Odsey Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
1997	First tower bell peal of Texarkana Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2001	First tower bell peal of Elton Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2002	First tower bell peal of Orvieto Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 4.
2003	First tower bell peal of Duck End Treble Place Minor. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Jairu Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2007	First tower bell peal of Straker's Passage Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 3.
2009	First tower bell peal of Viney Hill Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2010	First tower bell peal of Bailey Delight Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2011	First tower bell peal of Cocker Hoop Delight Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2012	First tower bell peal of Helpringham Fen Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2013	First tower bell peal of Wainwright Alliance Major. Recorded peal total is 1.
2015	First tower bell peal of Clavis Lodge Surprise Royal. Recorded peal total is 1.
2016	First tower bell peal of Wareside Surprise Major. Recorded peal total is 1.