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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 14 No.1 March 2017

Who Were Your Early Namesakes?
Researching Your Ancestors

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 the information by return.
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Mr. Ayresleigh – a debtor detained at Namby’s house, the haggard man in the
coffee-room.

“The third tenant of the apartment was a middle-aged man in a very old suit of black, who
looked pale and haggard, and paced up and down the room incessantly; stopping, now and
then, to look with great anxiety out of the window as if he expected somebody, and then
resuming his walk. 'You'd better have the loan of my razor this morning, Mr. Ayresleigh,'
said the man who was stirring the fire, tipping the wink to his friend the boy. 'Thank you,
no, I shan't want it; I expect I shall be out, in the course of an hour or so,' replied the
other in a hurried manner. Then, walking again up to the window, and once more returning
disappointed, he sighed deeply, and left the room; upon which the other two burst into a
loud laugh.”

Bernard Henry 1925 to 1938
H L Shephard 1941 to 1969
S F Crump 1969 to 1972
David Duffield 1972 to 2016 President (1994)
Carlton Kirby 2016 to present
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Mr. Green – did not exist

“That's all right,' replied Mr. Perker's clerk; and then seeing Mr. Pickwick's eye wandering
curiously towards the table, he added, 'will you join us, for half an hour or so? We are
capital company here to-night. There's Samkin and Green's managing-clerk, and Smithers
and Price's chancery, and Pimkin and Thomas's out o' doors--sings a capital song, he does--
and Jack Bamber, and ever so many more. You're come out of the country, I suppose.
Would you like to join us?'”