In JEemo riant 



THE LATE REV. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A, 



By his Son, ARTHUR WALLACE PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 



QCTAVIUS PICKARD was born at Bloxworth on 

 the 3rd of November, 1828. He was the 

 fifth son of the Reverend George Pickard, 

 Rector and Squire of Bloxworth, who in 

 1848, with his family, took the additional 

 name of Cambridge on succeeding to the 

 property of his cousin, Charles Owen 

 Cambridge, of Whit minster. He failed 

 (owing to the death of one of his sup- 

 porters among the Fellows) to obtain 

 entrance to Winchester College, and in the middle 

 forties he was for two years the pupil of the Rev. 

 William Barnes, the Dorset poet, for whom he always 

 retained the warmest respect and affection, and of whom 

 he wrote an eloquent memoir in these Proceedings (Vol VIII., 



