List of founders

Name	Founding	Group	Location	Bells	Bells Dated	Rings
Robert Hendley	1480–1500		Gloucester	23	1450–1500	20
Richard I Brasyer	1424–1482	Norwich	Norwich	23	1424–1499	18
Watts (generic)	1590–1613	Leicester	Leicester	22	1590–1601	17
Edward Tooke	1671–1679	Norwich	Norwich	22	1671–1679	15
John Thornton	1708–1720		Sudbury	22	1711–1720	14
R C	1450	Nottingham	Nottingham	22	1370–1499	16
Michael Darbie	1650–1682		it: SE England	22	1650–1675	13
Thomas Bullisdon	1495–1515	London	London	22	1499–1515	17
R Beconsall (or Ralph Brooke?)	1571–1624		it: Sussex & Hants	22	1572–1624	20
York foundry		York	York	21	1410–1594	14
Nottingham foundry		Nottingham	Nottingham	21	1399–1649	19
Edward Newcombe	1570–1616	Leicester	Bedford, Leicester	21	1589–1619	17
John Kebyll	1460–1485	London	London	21		16
Richard Holdfield	1595–1612		Cambridge	21	1595–1612	14
Thomas Bond	1905–1938	Burford	Burford	21	1908–1937	14
Edward Neale	1641–1685	Burford	Burford	20	1650–1683	14
Thomas II Hedderly	1778–1784	Nottingham	Nottingham	20	1778–1784	13
John Dawton	1624–1637	Salisbury	Salisbury	20	1626–1637	17
Robert Burford	1392–1418	London	London	20	1400–1418	17
Charles Pannell & Co	1820–1856	West Country	Cullompton	19	1847–1855	7
Ellis II & Henry III Knight	1656–1677	Reading	Reading	19	1656–1677	13
Gillett, Bland & Co	1879–1884	Gillett	Croydon	19	1879–1883	5
Robert I Austen	1618–1648	West Country	Compton Dundon	19	1618–1648	18
Henry I Bond & Son(s)	1851–1905	Burford	Westcot(-61), Burford(62-)	19	1868–1904	13
John III [C] & Fitzantony II Pennington	1765–1767	Pennington	Lezant	18	1765–1767	7
Osborn & Dobson	1803–1806			18	1803–1808	6
Osborn & Arnold	1772–1778		St Neots	18	1773–1778	10
William Hatch	1639–1664	Kent	Ulcombe	18	1640–1663	14
William Whitmore (of Worcs, Watford)	1624–1657		Worcs, Watford	17	1624–1656	9
William Seller	1635–1688	York	York	17	1662–1687	15
John II Pennington ('IP')	1665–1682	Pennington	Monmouth	17	1669–1682	11
Newcombe & Watts		Leicester		17	1561–1609	13
Richard Mellours	1470–1508	Nottingham	Nottingham	17	1480–1520	17
John Magges	1437–1470	Norwich	Norwich	17	1450–1499	12
Miles II Graye	1634–1665		?	17	1636–1664	10
John Dier	1577–1602		Hitchin; it: Essex	17	1579–1600	14
William Dawe	1381–1418	London	London	17	1380–1420	15
Richard II Belyetere	1440–1464	Worcester	Worcester	17	1420–1460	11
William & Henry III Bagley	1703–1708	Bagley		17	1703–1708	5
Thomas Hilton	1774–1810		Wath	17	1780–1810	12
John Woolley	1520–1548	Nottingham	Nottingham	16	1525–1599	13
William Warre	1589–1618		Leigh	16	1590–1618	14
John Rufford	1350–1380		Toddington	16	1350–1399	15
Robert Norton	1435–1499	West Country	Exeter	16	1420–1460	16
Robard Gurney	1649–1673	Bury St Edmunds	Bury St Edmunds	16	1663–1672	11
George Chandler	1681–1726		Drayton Parslow	16	1681–1726	12
William Watts	1587–1597		Bedford	15	1589–1597	10
Abraham Smith	1637–1670	York	York	15	1637–1669	14
Thomas Pyke	1775–1792	West Country	Bridgwater	15	1776–1781	11
Fitzanthony II Pennington	1756–1768	Pennington	Lezant	15	1758–1761	4