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Pimkin – Pimkin & Thomas

“'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?'”

Peter R Purves 1924 to 1963 President 1939/40; Life Member
J F Cross 1964 to 1978
John Peasnell 1995 to 1996

Karl Ennis 1997 to present

Stiles – fictitious name used by Serjeant Buzfuz

“'I say systematic villainy, gentlemen,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, looking through Mr.
Pickwick, and talking AT him; 'and when I say systematic villainy, let me tell the
defendant Pickwick, if he be in court, as I am informed he is, that it would have been
more decent in him, more becoming, in better judgment, and in better taste, if he had
stopped away. Let me tell him, gentlemen, that any gestures of dissent or disapprobation
in which he may indulge in this court will not go down with you; that you will know how to
value and how to appreciate them; and let me tell him further, as my Lord will tell you,
gentlemen, that a counsel, in the discharge of his duty to his client, is neither to be
intimidated nor bullied, nor put down; and that any attempt to do either the one or the
other, or the first, or the last, will recoil on the head of the attempter, be he plaintiff or
be he defendant, be his name Pickwick, or Noakes, or Stoakes, or Stiles, or Brown, or
Thompson.'”

F J Hobday 1925 to 1937 Committee 1927
Jim H Brandon 1942 to 1997 President 1966; Life Member

Graham Regester 1998 to present

Another polite request from your Editor - Smiggers does an amazing job with the
soubriquet histories, and it would be good to put faces to them; so if any new members
can send me their mug shot, I will include it with their history when it’s published.