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Richard Upwitch – greengrocer and juryman
“The judge had no sooner taken his seat, than the officer on the floor of the court called
out 'Silence!' in a commanding tone, upon which another officer in the gallery cried
'Silence!' in an angry manner, whereupon three or four more ushers shouted 'Silence!' in a
voice of indignant remonstrance. This being done, a gentleman in black, who sat below the
judge, proceeded to call over the names of the jury; and after a great deal of bawling, it
was discovered that only ten special jurymen were present. Upon this, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz
prayed a TALES; the gentleman in black then proceeded to press into the special jury, two
of the common jurymen; and a greengrocer and a chemist were caught directly. 'Answer to
your names, gentlemen, that you may be sworn,' said the gentleman in black. 'Richard
Upwitch.'”
J Horn 1878 to 1906
Eric E Anderson 1926 to 1934
R L Jones 1938 to 1951
John Grey 1953 to 1958
Eric Charles Tyler 1958 to 2003 President 1973
Matthew Bullen 2006 to 2011
Charles Tyler 2012 to present
The Secretary – the Club Secretary
“A casual observer, adds the secretary, to whose notes we are indebted for the following
account--a casual observer might possibly have remarked nothing extraordinary in the bald
head, and circular spectacles, which were intently turned towards his (the secretary's)
face, during the reading of the above resolutions: to those who knew that the gigantic brain
of Pickwick was working beneath that forehead, and that the beaming eyes of Pickwick were
twinkling behind those glasses, the sight was indeed an interesting one. There sat the man
who had traced to their source the mighty ponds of Hampstead, and agitated the scientific
world with his Theory of Tittlebats, as calm and unmoved as the deep waters of the one on
a frosty day, or as a solitary specimen of the other in the inmost recesses of an earthen
jar.”
Harry Foxton 1993 to 2009
Nathan Beale 2015 to present
