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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Brand Jo Brand], comedian [http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2005/08/23/jo_brand_lifestyle_feature.shtml]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brealey Louise Brealey], journalist & actress (pathologist Molly Hooper in the BBC Series, Sherlock)
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[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/jan/22/louise-brealey-molly-sherlock-interview]
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of "Pilgrim's Progress" [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan John Bunyan], author of "Pilgrim's Progress" [http://www.sounddoctrine.net/Classic_Sermons/John%20Bunyan/grace_abounding.html]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere], American revolutionary [http://www.oldnorth.com/history/bellringing.htm]
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Shanklin Jon Shanklin], discovered the hole in the ozone layer in 1985
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden Donald Sinden], actor (email from Bryan McCahey)
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright & comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Wood Victoria Wood], playwright & comedian [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqq6DOMCto4]
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brealey Louise Brealey], journalist & actress (pathologist Molly Hooper in the BBC Series, Sherlock)
 
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2012/jan/22/louise-brealey-molly-sherlock-interview]
 
  
Jon Shanklin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Shanklin], discovered the hole in the ozone layer in 1985
 
  
 
== People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==
 
== People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only ==

Revision as of 09:05, 5 April 2013

The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:

Kate Barker, economist [1]

John Betjeman, poet (email from Bryan McCahey)

Jo Brand, comedian [2]

Louise Brealey, journalist & actress (pathologist Molly Hooper in the BBC Series, Sherlock) [3]

John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress" [4]

Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [5]

John Harrison, clockmaker, "Longitude". [6]

Derek Hatton, politician (email from Geoff Sparling)

Philip Hollobone, MP [7]

Robin McKinley, author [8]

Timmy Mallett, television performer [9]

Norma Major, wife of former Prime Minister [10]

Frank Muir, entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)

Monty Noble, Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)

Maggie Philbin, television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)

Paul Revere, American revolutionary [11]

Jon Shanklin, discovered the hole in the ozone layer in 1985

Donald Sinden, actor (email from Bryan McCahey)

Alan Titchmarsh, celebrity gardener [12]

Victoria Wood, playwright & comedian [13]


People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only

Evan Davis, economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC [14]

Adrian Scarborough, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [ [15]

Gwen Taylor, actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [16]

Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [17]

Jamie de Courcey, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [18]

Lyndsey Marshal, actress in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [19]

Seamus Whitty, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [20]