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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 20 No.1 March 2023 18

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 this information by return.

Mr Lowton – Mr Perker’s clerk:
“'Well,' said the old woman, 'if it was anything very particular, I was to say where he was, so
I suppose there's no harm in telling. If you just go to the Magpie and Stump, and ask at the
bar for Mr. Lowten, they'll show you in to him, and he's Mr. Perker's clerk.'”

A Oliver pre 1881
Walter G Churcher 1881 to 1933 President (1905); Originally Sam Weller.
Resigned 1885; Rejoined 1901 as Mr Lowten.
Daniel Crawford JP 1912 to 1935 CommiBee (1927,33).
Features in Easter Tour 1913 picture.
John Newton 1939 to 1951
HNA Edwardes 1957 to 1982
Timothy Cawdron 1982 to 2001 ReJred member
MarJn Murray 2005 to 2011
Alan Steinle 2015 to 2022 Died 5 th Oct. 2022

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Jack – does not exist. This is “Jackson” senior clerk at Dodson & Fogg:
“'There was such a game with Fogg here, this mornin',' said the man in the brown coat, 'while
Jack was upstairs sorting the papers, and you two were gone to the stamp-office. Fogg was
down here, opening the letters when that chap as we issued the writ against at Camberwell,
you know, came in--what's his name again?' 'Ramsey,' said the clerk who had spoken to Mr.
Pickwick.”

E A Radnall 1942 to 1958
G A MaBhews 1966 to 1969
P KnoBley 1969 to 1976
J H Goode 1979 to 1982
R W Mills 1984 to 1994
Jack Creasey 1996 to 2017
Christopher Mockford 2021 to present