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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 10 No.3 October 2013
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.

Prince Bladud - son of Lud Hudibras, King of Britain - legend of the sources of waters of
Bath:
“
“'Less than two hundred years ago, on one of the public baths in this city, there appeared an
inscription in honour of its mighty founder, the renowned Prince Bladud. That inscription is now
erased. 'For many hundred years before that time, there had been handed down, from age to
age, an old legend, that the illustrious prince being afflicted with leprosy, on his return from reaping
a rich harvest of knowledge in Athens, shunned the court of his royal father, and consorted moodily
with husbandman and pigs. Among the herd (so said the legend) was a pig of grave and
solemn countenance, with whom the prince had a fellow-feeling --for he too was wise--a pig of
thoughtful and reserved demeanour; an animal superior to his fellows, whose grunt was terrible,
and whose bite was sharp. The young prince sighed deeply as he looked upon
the countenance of the majestic swine; he thought of his royal father, and his
eyes were bedewed with tears.”
E. Hearle pre 1881
J A Hawkins 1881 to 1914
G B Hemming 1920 to 1923
C R Willis 1925 to 1936
H J Brueton 1941 to 1948
Walter Flory 1955 to 1966 Captain, addressed as Mr. Pickwick, Esquire
Chris Tyler 1973 to present President 1980; Soubriquet changed from
Staple by mistake in 1978

Crookey – attendant in the coffee room at Namby’s house:

“'Give me a sheet of paper, Crookey,' said Mr. Price to the attendant, who in dress and general
appearance looked something between a bankrupt glazier, and a drover in a state of insolvency;
'and a glass of brandy-and-water, Crookey, d'ye hear? I'm going to write to my father, and I must
have a stimulant, or I shan't be able to pitch it strong enough into the old boy.' At this facetious
speech, the young boy, it is almost needless to say, was fairly convulsed.”
H A Bishop 1900 to 1915
Sir Lacy E Vincent 1941 to 1944
H A Davis 1948 to 1962
C White 1963 to 1977
David R Thorpe 1982 to 2004
Grahame Lovett 2006 to present