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  OCTAVIUS 
  PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, 
  1828-1917. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  Oetavi.us 
  Pickard- 
  Cambridge, 
  who 
  died 
  on 
  March 
  9, 
  J 
  917, 
  was 
  

   the 
  fifth 
  son, 
  of 
  the 
  Rector 
  and 
  Squire 
  of 
  Bloxworth, 
  Dorset, 
  the 
  Rev. 
  George 
  

   Pickard, 
  who 
  added 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Cambridge 
  on 
  succeeding 
  to 
  the 
  property 
  of 
  

   his 
  cousin, 
  C. 
  0. 
  Cambridge. 
  He 
  was 
  born 
  November 
  3, 
  1828, 
  at 
  the 
  

   Rectory, 
  where, 
  as 
  Rector 
  of 
  Bloxworth, 
  he 
  lived 
  for 
  nearly 
  fifty 
  years. 
  

  

  Pickard-Cambridge 
  did 
  not 
  go 
  to 
  a 
  Public 
  School, 
  but 
  was 
  for 
  two 
  years, 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle 
  forties, 
  a 
  pupil 
  of 
  the 
  Rev. 
  William 
  Barnes, 
  the 
  famous 
  Dorset 
  

   poet, 
  who 
  was 
  then 
  keeping 
  a 
  school 
  in 
  Dorchester. 
  To 
  this 
  inspiring 
  

   teacher 
  he 
  owed 
  the 
  foundation 
  of 
  the 
  literary 
  power 
  which 
  is 
  of 
  inestimable 
  

   value 
  in 
  the 
  presentation 
  of 
  scientific 
  work. 
  

  

  "It 
  was 
  appropriate 
  that 
  his 
  most 
  finished 
  piece 
  of 
  writing 
  should 
  have 
  

   been 
  the 
  memoir 
  of 
  his 
  old 
  teacher 
  and 
  friend, 
  wh'icli 
  he 
  contributed 
  to 
  the 
  

   * 
  Proceedings 
  ' 
  of 
  the 
  Dorset 
  Field 
  Club 
  in 
  1887 
  — 
  a 
  warm 
  tribute 
  of 
  admira- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  gratitude, 
  together 
  with 
  an 
  appreciation 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Barnes's 
  poems, 
  

   which, 
  while 
  disowning 
  all 
  attempt 
  at 
  criticism, 
  shows 
  real 
  critical 
  power 
  

   and 
  insight 
  into 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  poetry."* 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  W. 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  well 
  remembers, 
  too, 
  how 
  his 
  father's 
  help 
  

   in 
  holiday 
  tasks 
  made 
  the 
  literary 
  subjects 
  living 
  and 
  intelligible. 
  

  

  While 
  working 
  with 
  Mr. 
  Barnes 
  he 
  learned 
  the 
  violin, 
  confirming 
  and 
  

   strengthening 
  the 
  natural 
  gift 
  for 
  music, 
  which 
  meant 
  so 
  much 
  for 
  himself, 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  others, 
  throughout 
  his 
  life. 
  His 
  skill 
  in 
  drawing, 
  almost 
  essential 
  for 
  

   the 
  work 
  of 
  a 
  naturalist, 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  apparent 
  at 
  an 
  early 
  age, 
  for 
  his 
  

   sketch-book 
  of 
  1852-3 
  " 
  contains 
  some 
  exquisite 
  pencil-sketches, 
  chiefly 
  of 
  

   the 
  churches 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  round 
  Hatch 
  Beauchamp." 
  

  

  Apart 
  from 
  his 
  work 
  with 
  Mr. 
  Barnes, 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  enjoyed 
  the 
  

   pursuits 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  — 
  gardening, 
  bee-keeping, 
  and, 
  above 
  all, 
  shooting. 
  

   In 
  1849 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  London 
  to 
  enter 
  on 
  a 
  two 
  years' 
  course 
  of 
  study 
  for 
  the 
  

   Bar, 
  but, 
  although 
  the 
  experience 
  was 
  valuable, 
  the 
  work 
  and 
  the 
  life 
  did 
  

   not 
  suit 
  him, 
  and 
  were 
  not 
  continued. 
  Then, 
  for 
  the 
  two 
  years 
  1852-3, 
  he 
  

   read 
  with 
  a 
  tutor 
  at 
  Hatch 
  Beauchamp, 
  Somerset, 
  and, 
  in 
  1855, 
  entered 
  

   University 
  College, 
  Durham, 
  to 
  prepare 
  for 
  Holy 
  Orders 
  and 
  to 
  take 
  his 
  

   degree 
  — 
  B.A. 
  in 
  1858, 
  M.A. 
  in 
  1859. 
  At 
  College 
  he 
  worked 
  hard, 
  and 
  

   entered 
  fully 
  and 
  with 
  spirit 
  into 
  the 
  many-sided 
  life 
  of 
  the 
  University. 
  

  

  In 
  1858 
  he 
  was 
  ordained, 
  and 
  held 
  the 
  curacy 
  of 
  Scarisbrick, 
  in 
  the 
  

   diocese 
  of 
  Chester, 
  with 
  a 
  stipend 
  of 
  £60 
  a 
  year. 
  He 
  was 
  at 
  Scarisbrick 
  

   when 
  the 
  " 
  Origin 
  of 
  Species 
  " 
  appeared 
  in 
  1859, 
  and 
  remembered 
  with 
  

   amusement 
  the 
  denunciations 
  of 
  Darwin 
  by 
  the 
  local 
  clergy. 
  

  

  In 
  I860, 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  left 
  Scarisbrick, 
  to 
  help, 
  and 
  in 
  1868 
  to 
  

   succeed, 
  his 
  father, 
  as 
  Rector 
  of 
  Bloxworth 
  and 
  Winterbourne 
  Tomson. 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  and 
  all 
  succeeding 
  quotations 
  without 
  reference 
  are 
  from 
  the 
  ' 
  Memoir 
  of 
  the 
  

   Eeverend 
  Octavius 
  Pickard-Cambridge,' 
  by 
  his 
  son, 
  A. 
  "W. 
  Pickard-Cambridge, 
  Fellow 
  

   of 
  Balliol 
  College, 
  Oxford, 
  printed 
  for 
  private 
  circulation, 
  1918. 
  

  

  