| This list was initially compiled from the peal reports published in 1994 and 1995 and contained about 350 composers' names at that time. I updated it recently by doing a quick trawl through the top 6 societies from peals.co.uk for 2005-2007 (about 3,000 peals), which has added approximately another 60 names. Finally, I've merged it with the information in Tony Smith's admirable Index to Compositions in The Ringing World, giving around 800 names. |
| I'm unable to discover the full names of the following composers. They appear in Tony's list as composers of touches and quarter peals, but they may also have composed peals for all I know. I've given the Ringing World reference of a representative composition in case this jogs anyone's memory. |
| Composition | Composer | RW Ref | |
| 1260 Union Triples | J | Bines | 97/1029 |
| 1344 3-Spliced Plain & Little Major | A E | Brown | 78/0934 |
| 1319 Grandsire Cinques | K | Brown | 94/1122 |
| 1344 Plain Bob Triples | I | Calvert | 71/0178 |
| 120 5-Spliced Doubles | J | Davey | 50/0446 |
| 720 Plain Bob Minor | ? | Dixon | 68/0240 |
| 1979 Grandsire Caters | H V | Frost | 79/1072 |
| 1952 Plain Bob Major | G J | Gammon | 52/0046 |
| 1984 Plain Bob Major | J L | Hayns | 80/0237 |
| 1277 Grandsire Caters | G | Hollis | 78/0922 |
| 720 Dixon's Bob Minor | J | Hollis | 81/0826 |
| 1260 Stedman Triples | S | Jones | 50/0798 |
| 720 Wadenhoe Slow Course Minor | S G | Miles | 81/0677 |
| 1265 Plain Bob Major | D | Newis | 76/0680 |
| 1967 Duffield Major | J E | Newman | 68/0516 |
| 120 Erin Doubles | E S | Powell | 41/0166 |
| 720 Plain Bob Doubles | A R | Price | 96/0365 |
| 1260 Grandsire Triples | H A | Price | 63/0360 |
| 120 Stedman Triples | D J | Roberts | 67/0004 |
| 1040 Plain Bob Major | F W | Rogers | 72/0020 |
| 1985 3-Spliced Surprise Caters | A | Rowe | 85/0736 |
| 1313 Double Norwich Court Bob Caters | E | Sutton | 81/0243 |
| 252 Stedman Triples | H | Turner | 57/0155 |
| 1280 Plain Bob Major | M V | White | 75/0172 |
| touches Stedman Triples | E V | Williams | 77/0922 |
| 142 Stedman Triples | W | Wolstencroft | 53/0197 |
| 720 Plain Bob Minor | H F | Wood | 51/0764 |
| 1260 Grandsire Triples | C H | Woodbury | 73/0846 |
| The following composers are recorded in Tony's index as having produced peals; again the Ringing World reference is to a representative composition only. |
| Composition | Composer | RW Ref | |
| 5039 Grandsire Caters | J E | Arnold | 47/0563 |
| M G | Barker | (not in APS) | |
| J H | Barrett | (not in APS) | |
| 5040 Grandsire Triples | ? | Bruerton | 51/0048 |
| 5040 Stedman Triples | T | Carter | 41/0287 |
| 5040 Stedman Triples | S G | Chaplin | 84/0699 |
| 5280 Grandsire Major | W | Eversfield | 68/0355 |
| 5056 Humberstone Delight Major | T E | Harold | 55/0286 |
| 5088 St Wolstans Delight Major | T E | Harrold | 54/0672 |
| 5152 Double Norwich Court Bob Major | R | Hasted | 70/0064 |
| 5040 Plain Bob Major | N D | Hughes | 85/0716 |
| 5056 Plain Bob Major | J A | Lambert | 55/0268 |
| 5111 Grandsire Caters | D C | Oates | 87/0696 |
| 5088 Plain Bob Major | E A | Ridgeway | 75/0355 |
| 5040 Grandsire Triples | G H | Ridout | 41/0190 |
| 5376 Plain Bob Major | R J | Stevens | 78/0952 |
| 5040 Stedman Triples | B H | Swinson | 41/0057 |
| 5184 Withyham Surprise Major | M J | Thomas | 73/0804 |
| 5040 Little Bob Royal | C | Wallater | 58/0632 |
| 5040 Plain Bob Major | B M | Wheeler | 87/0592 |
| 5040 Swindon Surprise Royal | D G | Wilford | 65/0444 |
| I believe the following list to be correct, with the caveat that many of the names in it are based on my memories of obsessively reading the Ringing World over the past 45 years. If you spot any errors (especially where there are alternative spellings for Christian names, such as Anthony/Antony) or if can supply any of the missing names above, or any post-1999 names, please mail me. |
| Roger Bailey January 2008 (last updated March 2008) |
| Chris | Adams | J Alan | Ainsworth | Andrew F | Alldrick | Richard I | Allton | |||
| John | Anderson | Richard J | Angrave | Benjamin | Annable | Toby | Arkless | |||
| Stuart | Armeson | Kenneth | Arthur | Neil R | Aspland | E Maurice | Atkins | |||
| J David | Atkinson | Norman W | Attaway | Gary J | Audley | Samuel M | Austin | |||
| David P | Bagley | Leslie F | Bailey | Nigel J | Bailey | Roger | Bailey | |||
| George | Baker | Roger | Baldwin | Denis A | Bales | Michael | Bangham | |||
| A Colin | Banton | Alan M | Barber | John W | Barker | Roger | Barnes | |||
| Edwin A | Barnett | Dale | Barton | William | Barton | William E | Bason | |||
| Geoffrey | Baulcomb | David R | Baxter | Denis A | Bayles | David W | Beard | |||
| Joseph St J | Beaumont | Vernon B | Bedford | Stephen B | Bell | Peter G | Bellamy-Knights | |||
| James W | Belshaw | Roland | Beniston | Ernest | Bennett | Frank | Bennett | |||
| Mark C | Bennett | Neil | Bennett | Peter J R | Bevis | Patrick J | Bird | |||
| Anthony | Bishop | Frank T | Blagrove | Ian S G | Blagrove | Fred | Bone | |||
| Peter | Border | Charles M S | Botting | M John | Bradford | Graham M | Bradshaw | |||
| Jeffrey | Brannan | Jack | Bray | Geoffrey | Bridges | Thomas | Brook | |||
| Patrick L H | Brooke | William A | Brotherton | David C | Brown | Robert D S | Brown | |||
| Robin | Brown | Michael S | Bruce | Edward F P | Bryant | Andrew M | Bull | |||
| H Earle | Bulwer | Alan S | Burbidge | James A | Burford | Brian L | Burrows | |||
| James E | Burton | Philip A | Burton | Richard H | Burton | Shirley | Burton | |||
| Alan A J | Buswell | Peter R | Butler | William | Butler | Ian | Butters | |||
| Derek | Butterworth | Alex F | Byrne | George H | Campling | Martin J | Cansdale | |||
| David G | Carling | Denis R | Carlisle | Anthony R | Carter | Donald B | Carter | |||
| John | Carter | Richard P J | Carter | Harold G | Cashmore | Alan | Cattell | |||
| William A | Cave | J Edward | Cawser | Robert G | Chadburn | Norman | Chaddock | |||
| Steven D | Chandler | Harold | Chant | Dennis A | Chapman | Patrick I | Chapman | |||
| Tom | Chapman | Cornelius | Charge | Nicholas J | Chesson | John E | Chilcott | |||
| Michael V | Chilcott | Peter J | Church | Robin R | Churchill | Rupert A | Clarke | |||
| James | Clatworthy | Antony W T | Cleaver | Richard J | Clements | Stephen A | Coaker | |||
| Graham J N | Colborne | Julian | Coleman | Murray A | Coleman | Stephen J | Coleman | |||
| Charles T | Coles | A Terence | Collins | Timothy F | Collins | Benjamin D | Constant | |||
| Henry | Cooper | Philip A | Corby | Andrew J | Corrigan | Graham P | Cottle | |||
| W John | Couperthwaite | Andrew J | Cowie | Richard J | Cowley | Anthony J | Cox | |||
| John | Cox | Anthony J | Crabtree | Andrew G | Craddock | Arthur | Craven | |||
| W Eric | Critchley | James S | Croft | William S | Croft | William Doubleday | Crofts | |||
| Richard G | Crosland | George H | Cross | Oliver D | Cross | George | Crute | |||
| Neil G | Curnow | Henry | Dains | Philip J | Daniel | Frank E | Darby | |||
| John E | David | Charles D P | Davies | Geoffrey | Davies | Mark B | Davies | |||
| Nicholas J | Davies | Philip G K | Davies | R Adrian | Davies | Owen | Davis | |||
| Richard F | Deal | Jonathan H B | Deane | Ian L | Dear | George W | Debenham | |||
| Frederick | Dench | Robert E J | Dennis | David R | Dewar | Frederick H | Dexter | |||
| Noel J | Diserens | John A | Dodd | Geoffrey | Dodds | C Barrie | Dove | |||
| Brian | Downes | Geoffrey R | Drew | Albert G | Driver | Graham A | Duke | |||
| Matthew J L | Durham | Philip J | Earis | Mark R | Eccleston | David A | Edwards | |||
| G Ronald | Edwards | Richard H | Edwards | Thomas | Edwards | David B | Ellery | |||
| John | Elliott | Alan J | Ellis | Peter G C | Ellis | William | Elson | |||
| Peter J | England | Christopher H | Enzor | R Mark | Esbester | Aubrey G | Eveleigh | |||
| George E | Evenden | David C | Everett | David R | Fallick | Andrew M | Farmer | |||
| F Gordon | Faulks | Simon F | Feather | George E | Feirn | Martin D | Fellows | |||
| Kenneth W H | Felstead | Stephen | Fenwick | J Henry | Fielden | John H | Fielden | |||
| Ian R | Fielding | John R | Fisher | Paul J | Flavell | Christopher | Forster | |||
| Michael | Foulds | Edward | Francis | George | Francis | John H R | Freeborn | |||
| George R | Freebrey | Alan | Freke | David W | Friend | Denis A | Frith | |||
| Roger O | Fry | Christopher B | Fynes | Ian M | Gardiner | Philip W | Gay | |||
| Simon J | Gay | James | George | Philip | George | Monty W | Gilbert | |||
| Clement | Glenn | Edwin R | Goate | Edward C | Gobey | F Nolan | Golden | |||
| John M | Goldthorpe | Len | Goodall | Thomas W | Goodyer | Al | Gorithm | |||
| Philip J | Gorrod | Valentine | Gosling | Andrew J | Graham | Colin T | Graham | |||
| Robert P | Graves | Percy | Green | Roger G | Green | York | Green | |||
| York | Green | John W | Griffiths | Thomas W | Griffiths | Richard B | Grimmett | |||
| Frederick W | Grocott | George | Gross | James E | Groves | Lawrence J | Haines | |||
| Henry W | Haley | Robin O | Hall | Gordon A | Halls | Gary R | Harden | |||
| Robert E | Hardy | Brian | Harris | Geoffrey S | Harris | Mark | Harris | |||
| Roy T | Harris | Michael J | Harrison | William | Harrison | John E | Harrold | |||
| S Nicholas | Harrop | Andrew | Haseldine | Charles H | Hattersley | John E | Hawes | |||
| George J | Hawkins | Fred | Hayes | William R | Haynes | George | Hayward | |||
| Graham R | Hayward | Louis | Head | Stuart J | Heath | John E | Heaton | |||
| David | Heighton | Barrie | Hendry | Michael J de C | Henshaw | W Nigel G | Herriott | |||
| James | Hewett | Arthur P | Heywood | James | Higgins | Stephen F | High | |||
| John | Hill | Melvyn | Hiller | Matthew J | Hilling | Thomas J | Hinks | |||
| David | Hoare | Michael E C | Hodge | Fred | Hodgson | Maurice | Hodgson | |||
| Frederick A | Holden | James W | Holdsworth | David A | Holland | Ian M | Holland | |||
| Alexander E | Holroyd | John | Holt | Thomas | Hooley | Roderick R | Horton | |||
| Alfred J | House | David E | House | Andrew | Howard | John | Howes | |||
| Horace | Howlett | Henry | Hubbard | Andrew S | Hudson | William | Hudson | |||
| George | Hughes | Peter D | Hughes | Stella | Hughes | John N | Hughes-D'Aeth | |||
| David G | Hull | Brian B | Hullah | Alec | Humphrey | Simon | Humphrey | |||
| Peter | Humphreys | Alex | Hunt | D John | Hunt | Jas | Hunt | |||
| J M Hadley | Hunter | C James | Hustler | Stuart C W | Hutchieson | John | Hyden | |||
| Richard A G | Inglis | Maurice C | Ingram | Stephen J | Ivin | Fred J | Jackson | |||
| Edward Bankes | James | Henry Law | James | Leos | Janacek | C Edward | Jeffries | |||
| John M | Jelley | John M | Jenkins | Stanley | Jenner | Andy | Jobson | |||
| Graham A C | John | Andrew | Johnson | Henry | Johnson | Derek J | Jones | |||
| Derek P | Jones | Philip H D | Jones | David J | Kelly | Steven P | Kelly | |||
| Antony R | Kench | John R | Ketteringham | Richard M | Kilby | Peter R | King | |||
| Charles H | Kippin | Robert C | Kippin | James | Kirkcaldy | Frank C W | Knight | |||
| A Percival | Knights | Arthur | Knights | Richard F | Knights | Dennis | Knox | |||
| Dennis | Knox | Jeffrey P | Ladd | J Michael | Lakin | John O | Lancashire | |||
| Mark S | Lancefield | Isaac J B | Lates | Donald G | Lawson | Miles W C | Lawson | |||
| Denis N | Layton | A David | Leach | John R | Leary | Robert W | Lee | |||
| Janice | Leeke | Roger | Leigh | Roy | LeMarechal | C Kenneth | Lewis | |||
| Edwin H | Lewis | George | Lewis | Arthur F | Lewry | Mark C | Liebenrood | |||
| Edwin J | Lindley | Gabriel | Lindoff | Michael R | Ling | James | Lockwood | |||
| John N | Longridge | John V | Lonsbrough | Michael W | Lowndes | Kevin I | Lucas | |||
| Frank B | Lufkin | Alistair D | Macfadyen | William | Male | Adrian C | Malton | |||
| Audrey | Mann | Martin G | Mansley | George | Marriner | Martyn J | Marriott | |||
| David J | Marshall | Donald R | Marshall | Susan E | Marshall | Charles H | Martin | |||
| Edward W | Martin | John R | Martin | Len | Martin | Paul M | Mason | |||
| George W | Massey | Daniel T | Matkin | Michael | Maughan | Ian C | Maycock | |||
| Andrew C D | Mayes | John R | Mayne | John | McDonald | Reginald T | McKenzie | |||
| Hamish M | McNaughton | Michael E C | Mears | Malcolm C C | Melville | Christopher F | Mew | |||
| C Montague | Meyer | William | Micklewright | Charles | Middleton | Henry G | Miles | |||
| Donald L | Mills | Ian G | Mills | Clive J | Mobbs | Colin C | Monson | |||
| John W | Moorhouse | Adrian M | Moreton | Wilfrid F | Moreton | Julian | Morgan | |||
| Ernest | Morris | John L | Morris | Leslie W G | Morris | Morris J | Morris | |||
| Donald F | Morrison | Paul N | Mounsey | Brian V | Mountjoy | Peter S | Muchlinski | |||
| Christopher L D | Munday | Peter J | Munday | Graham L | Nayler | Paul | Needham | |||
| John | Nelms | Nigel J | Newton | Robert H | Newton | Donald H | Niblett | |||
| Peter D | Niblett | John | Nichol | John | Nicholl | Eric | Nixon | |||
| John | Noonan | Ian | North | Owen T | Northwood | Anthony A | Nunn | |||
| C Mark G | Ockelton | Richard C | Offen | Derek | Ogden | Maurice | Onions | |||
| Christopher T | Osenton | Charles W | Ottaway | Michael E | Ovenden | Raymond | Overy | |||
| Terence G | Page | James | Pagett | Michael J | Palmer | Joseph J | Parker | |||
| Joseph W | Parker | Julian C | Parker | Richard J | Parker | Nicholas J | Parkes | |||
| Anthony H G | Parry | David E | Parsons | James | Patrick | Stephanie J | Pattenden | |||
| Alan R | Patterson | Bryan | Pattison | Heather L E | Peachey | Anthony R | Peake | |||
| Diccon G M | Pearce | Richard A | Pearce | Clive R | Pearson | Robert | Peers | |||
| Gerald | Penney | William T | Perrins | Magnus M | Peterson | Timothy G | Pett | |||
| James | Pettit | Stephen D | Pettman | J Barry | Pickup | Michael J | Pickup | |||
| Mike J | Pidd | James | Pigott | Michael | Pilgrim | Alan D | Pink | |||
| David J | Pipe | Roderick W | Pipe | Charles H P | Pipe-Wolferstan | Albert J | Pitman | |||
| Nathan J | Pitstow | John | Pladdys | James | Platt | Michael J | Platt | |||
| Charles F | Pocock | Michael J | Pomeroy | Christopher J | Poole | Simon J | Poole | |||
| Jonathan S N | Porter | Christopher | Povey | Michael G | Powell | Harry | Poyner | |||
| Jeremy R | Pratt | Daniel | Prentice | Brian D | Price | Charles | Price | |||
| Frank C | Price | John R | Pritchard | William | Pye | Peter C | Randall | |||
| George H | Randles | Charles | Ravenscroft | Alan G | Reading | Lucinda J C | Reeve | |||
| Simon C | Reeve | John | Reeves | Mark W | Regan | John | Regin | |||
| Albert A | Relfe | Kenneth J | Rider | John R | Ridley | David F | Riley | |||
| Mark R | Rizzo | Dermot J | Roaf | Robert | Roan | Charles W | Roberts | |||
| Kenneth A | Roe | Christopher H | Rogers | Gwen | Rogers | Stephen A | Rossiter | |||
| David E | Rothera | Kate | Rouse | Christopher I | Rowson | Philip A B | Saddleton | |||
| Andrew J | Salisbury | David G | Salter | Patrick W | Saltmarsh | Brian A | Sanders | |||
| Peter J | Sanderson | Shane A | Saunders | R Roger | Savory | James R S | Sawle | |||
| John | Schofield | Roger N | Scholes | Alan F | Scholfield | Graham N | Scott | |||
| Keith W | Scudamore | Charles J | Sedgley | John | Segar | Charles | Severn | |||
| Brynley A | Shackleton | Frederick | Shallcross | Jonathan D | Shanklin | Christopher J | Sharp | |||
| James | Shaw | Edgar C | Shepherd | Mark A | Shepherd | William | Shepherd | |||
| David J | Sheppard | Peter W J | Sheppard | Marcus C W | Sherwood | Margaret L | Sherwood | |||
| William | Shipway | Edmund | Shuttleworth | Andrew D | Sibson | Derek E | Sibson | |||
| Thomas | Sibson | Nicholas W H | Simon | Alan J | Sinden | Kevin J | Skillings | |||
| G Wilfrid | Slack | Michael | Slaney | John | Smalley | Anthony G | Smith | |||
| Anthony H | Smith | Anthony P | Smith | Arnold J | Smith | David | Smith | |||
| David I | Smith | Howard E J | Smith | Ian V J | Smith | James A | Smith | |||
| John W | Smith | Mark J | Smith | Norman | Smith | Richard A | Smith | |||
| Robert B | Smith | Roger W | Smith | Sean D | Smith | Simon J T | Smith | |||
| Timothy C | Smith | Ronald J | Snack | Peter J | Soar | Thomas E | Sone | |||
| William | Sottanstall | Emma J | Southerington | Geoffrey C | Sparling | Richard F B | Speed | |||
| John E | Spice | Jeremy W | Spiller | Peter J | Staniforth | Christopher P | Starbuck | |||
| Edward C | Steele | Richard C | Stevens | Albert W | Stone | Fergus M S | Stracey | |||
| David W | Struckett | Michael J | Stubbs | David | Sullivan | John H | Sunderland | |||
| Peter V D | Swift | George E | Symonds | Bernard H | Taylor | Catherine R | Taylor | |||
| Edward | Taylor | Eric J | Taylor | Glenn A A | Taylor | Herbert E | Taylor | |||
| James R | Taylor | Trevor | Taylor | Joseph | Tebbs | Gordon K | Terris | |||
| Stephen | Theobald | John | Thomas | Sam | Thomas | William E | Thompsett | |||
| Giles B | Thompson | Nigel | Thomson | William | Thorley | William | Thornley | |||
| John | Thorp | Roy | Threadgold | Maurice J | Thurmott | Thomas | Thurstans | |||
| Samuel | Thurston | Andrew J W | Tibbetts | Richard J W | Tibbetts | Edwin H | Timbrell | |||
| Ernest W | Tipler | Roy D | Tomlin | Michael | Tompsett | James H | Topp | |||
| Peter J | Townsend | Jeffrey R | Tozer | D Paul | Treble | J Armiger | Trollope | |||
| J W Frank | Trotman | Henry J | Tucker | Ernest C S | Turner | Martin J | Turner | |||
| Albert M | Tyler | Andrew N | Tyler | Michael J | Uphill | John | Vicars | |||
| Albert P | Wakley | Albert | Walker | Keith J | Walpole | John S | Warboys | |||
| Paul F | Warren | Frank | Warrington | David A | Warwick | James W | Washbrook | |||
| Peter J | Waterfield | John | Weaver | E John | Wells | Stephen A | Wheeler | |||
| Percy H | Whitaker | James R | White | Walter P | Whitehead | Brian E | Whiting | |||
| Simon A B | Wigg | Andrew W R | Wilby | Michael P A | Wilby | Henry W | Wilde | |||
| James S | Wilde | Peter M | Wilkinson | R William | Willans | George | Williams | |||
| Marcus A G | Williams | Viv | Williams | William | Willson | Amburn | Wilson | |||
| Rognvald St C | Wilson | Peter F | Windley | Alan T | Winter | Michael J | Winterbourne | |||
| Amy | Wood | Andrew | Wood | James | Wood | Sam | Wood | |||
| Stephen H | Wood | Brian J | Woodruffe | Colin | Woods | Christopher W | Woolley | |||
| Robin E H | Woolley | Thomas B | Worsley | John | Worth | Cyril A | Wratten | |||
| Colin G | Wright | Peter C | Wright | Christopher M | Wulkau | Peter J | Wycherley | |||
| Colin J E | Wyld | Stephen A | Yates | Michael J | Young |