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called " the well-known West of England coach proprietor." In Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars,' 281, the note (already quoted by ME. WAINEWEIGHT) is wrong, so far as it states that the above William Pickwick became " major in the Army." That statement confuses him with his cousin

2. William Eleazer Pickwick, a Commoner on the School Long Rolls of 1811-16. The Long Rolls of that period give surnames alone, but this boy was candidate for a Scholarship in 1811 and 1812, and in each year obtained a place on the Election Roll, not high enough, however, to win for him admission as a Scholar. He is entered on the Roll of 1812 as " Gulielmus Pickwick de par. All Saints & St. John's Hertford, nat. Dec. 10, 1798." He was identical with the " Major W. E. Pickwick, late 8th Regiment, of Bathford, Somerset," who died at Boulogne-sur-Mer on Dec. 9, 1867, " aged 69 " ; see The Times of Dec. 12, 1867, and Gentleman's Magazine, 1868, i. 120. The properties of which he had become tenant for life under the will of his uncle Eleazer included Bathford Manor House, Somerset, and Pomeroy Manor, Wingfield or Winkfield, Wilts. In 1838, when he had just succeeded to these properties, he obtained a grant of arms (Harl. Soc. vol. Ixviii., 1917, p. 291), the arms being, according to Burke' s ' General Armory ' (1884), Per fesse em- battled gu. and az., in chief 2 pickaxes, and in base a cross moline or : crest, a hart's head couped erm., attired or, gorged with a collar gu., therefrom a chain reflexed over the neck gold, between 2 wings az. He was elder brother of

3. Charles Pickwick, a Scholar admitted on Aug. 24, 1816, as " de par. Sti Petri et Sti Pauli Bath, Somerset, bapt. Sept. 17, 1803." He left Winchester on July 12, 1822, and went in the following October to Worcester College, Oxford. See Foster, who describes him as second son of " Aaron, of Bath, Somerset, gent." He graduated B.A., took holy orders, and married Harriet, daughter of the Rev. Henry Sainsbury, Rector (1792-1841) of Beckington, Somerset. He died at Beckington on Dec. 12, 1834 ; see Gentleman's Magazine, 1835, i. 328, where he is styled " nephew to E. Pickwick, Esq., of Queen's Square, Bath," who was the above-mentioned Eleazer. Eleazer and Aaron were therefore brothers. Charles Pickwick's only son was

4. Charles Henry Sainsbury Pickwick, who was born, it would seem, at Beckington on June 6, 1831 ; see Gentleman's Magazine, 1831, i. r 555. He became a Commoner at

Winchester in 1842. He was in the 91st Regiment, 1849-51, retiring as lieutenant, and afterwards becoming captain 2nd Somerset Militia and Wilts Rifle Volunteers. On Aug. 5, 1852, he married at Charlton, near Dover, Eliza Frances, eldest daughter of Robert Sillery, M.D. ; see ibid., 1852, ii. 411, where it is said that he was his father's only son. On the death of his uncle Major W. E. Pickwick in 1867, he succeeded to his properties ; and in or about 1872 he, and also his son (No. 5, below), took a st^p which would have given satisfaction to Sam. Weller, for they dropped the name of Pickwick, that passport to immortality, and assumed Sainsbury for surname. I cannot give the date of his death, but it occurred in the lifetime of his eldest son, who was ::

5. William Gordon Sillery Pickwick (after- wards Sainsbury), born May 22, 1853. He became a Winchester Commoner in 1867. He was captain, 2nd Somerset Militia, in 1883, and died at Woodlands, Bradford-on- Avon, Wilts, on March 22, 1897 ; see The Times of March 25, 1897, where his father is styled " the late Capt. C. H. S. Sainsbury, of Bathford Manor, Bath."

For some of the foregoing information about Nos. 3, 4, and 5 of tkese " Pickwick- amists " I am indebted to Holgate's ' Winchester Commoners, 1836-90,' and to ' Winchester College, 1836-1906,' a Register edited by ME. WAINEWEIGHT.

The will of " Eleazer Pickwick, of the city of Bath, Esquire," dated Jan. 17, 1829, with a codicil made in June, 1835, was proved in London on Aug. 4, 1838, after some trouble occasioned by the fact that only the draft of certain parts of the will could be found. See P.C.C., 546 Nicholl. The executors were Sir George Smith Gibbes, Kt. (the physician ; see ' D.N.B.,' xxi. 248) ; John Wiltshire and George Edward Allen, both of Bath ; and the elder nephew, W. E. Pickwick, who was also residuary legatee. On Oct. 31, 1868, W. E. Pickwick, the sur- vivor of these executors, having died intestate, administration with the will annexed was granted to the above-mentioned C. H. Sainsbury Pickwick, who had been mentioned in the codicil. The will shows that the testator resided at 10 Queen's Square, Bath. He mentions, besides his two nephews, his wife Susannah, his sister Elizabeth Bullock and her daughter Martha Withey (who, in the interval between the will and the codicil, became wife to Charles Barrow of Bath), his cousin Moses Pickwick, that cousin's wife Frances and daughter Susanna, and Susan Coles, who was sister