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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.1 March 2012 21
RESEARCHING YOUR ANCESTORS,
OR, WHO WERE YOUR EARLY NAMESAKES?
This series is compiled and produced by
Past President Joseph Smiggers,Esq. P.V.P.M.P.C., (Steve Bullen).

The Pickwick Bicycle Club has been in continuous existence since its formation in 1870, and the soubriquets of its members have
been faithfully passed down from generation to generation. If you would like to receive the available history of your soubriquet
please contact Joseph Smiggers at steve@stephenbullen.com and you will have this information by return.
The late Mr. Bardell – deceased custom-house officer:

“His landlady, Mrs. Bardell-- the relict and sole executrix of a deceased
“ custom-house officer--was a comely woman of bustling manners and
agreeable appearance, with a natural genius for cooking, improved by
study and long practice, into an exquisite talent. There were no children,
no servants, no fowls.”

Robin (Alan) Mepham 1970 to 2002 Died 2009 aged 86
William Farrow 2003 to present

The late Mr. Clarke – first husband of Mrs. Weller. Late Marquis of Granby, Dorking:

“The Marquis of Granby, in Mrs. Weller's time, was quite a model of a roadside public-house of
the better class--just large enough to be convenient, and small enough to be snug. On the opposite
side of the road was a large sign-board on a high post, representing the head and shoulders of
a gentleman with an apoplectic countenance, in a red coat with deep blue facings, and a touch
of the same blue over his three-cornered hat, for a sky. Over that again were a pair of flags;
beneath the last button of his coat were a couple of cannon; and
the whole formed an expressive and undoubted likeness of the
Marquis of Granby of glorious memory.”

T F Watson 1942 to 1958
J Neary 1966 to 1974
Ernest G Juer 1974 to 1993 President (1982)
Jules Renaud 2005 to present
Mr. Dibdin – deceased songwriter: We wanted a portrait,
not a full body shot!
“Anthony Humm now moved that the assembly do regale itself with a song. With a view to their
rational and moral enjoyment, Brother Mordlin had adapted the beautiful words of 'Who hasn't
heard of a Jolly Young Waterman?' to the tune of the Old Hundredth, which he would request
them to join him in singing (great applause). He might take that opportunity of expressing his firm
persuasion that the late Mr. Dibdin, seeing the errors of his former life, had written that song to
show the advantages of abstinence. It was a temperance song (whirlwinds of cheers). The
neatness of the young man's attire, the dexterity of his feathering, the enviable state of mind which
enabled him in the beautiful words of the poet, to 'Row along, thinking of nothing at all,'
all combined to prove that he must have been a water-drinker (cheers). Oh, what a state of virtuous
jollity! (rapturous cheering).” Continued