MEMOIR 



OF THE 

 REV. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE 



MY father was born on the 3rd of November, 1818. 

 He was the fifth son of the Rev. George Pickard, Rector 

 and Squire of Bloxworth in Dorset, who in 184.8, with 

 his family, took the additional name of Cambridge upon 

 his succession to the property of his cousin, Charles Owen 

 Cambridge, of Whitminster House in Gloucestershire. 

 My grandfather and his family lived then in the Rectory, 

 which his many sons and daughters must have found 

 none too large for them. My father's name was entered 

 for Winchester, but admission was then mainly dependent 

 upon favour, not upon any serious test of merit. One of 

 his supporters died shortly before the day of election, and 

 he failed to obtain entrance ; but he used to recall with 

 amusement the travesty of an examination to which he 

 was subjected. His failure was probably a very fortunate 

 thing, as it is hardly likely that his special tastes would 

 have had much chance of flourishing in the atmosphere 

 of a Public School. 



In the middle 'forties he was for two years the pupil 

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