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with a plant by its Linnasan name, he would never rest while 
any obscurity enveloped it in the works of Ray.” 18 
John Pitchford had succeeded Mr. Rose at 8, Tombland, but 
I am unable to ascertain how long he was a tenant of that 
house. It is known that the surgeon-botanist was residing at 
26, St. Giles’ Broad street, in 1 802 2 ; the Salix rubra, of which 
there is a specimen labelled “ Mr. Pitchford’s garden ” in Sir 
James Smith’s herbarium, probably grew in the garden of the 
St. Giles’ House. Pitchford must have been there as early as 
1795, when his wife was buried in St. Giles’ church. 
Mrs. Pitchford, who died on July 31st, 1795, aged 51, was 
probably connected with Wisbech, for on Nov. 20th, 1795, Mr. 
Woodward writes from Bungay to Dr. Smith : — “Mr. Pitchford 
has been at Wisbech to sell his estate ; he met with a brother 
surgeon there who has found some good things in that country.” 8 ' 
Perhaps this was William Skrimshire. 
On December 22nd, 1803, Mr. Pitchford died, aged 66 years, 
and was buried in his wife’s grave ; the memorial slab on the 
floor of St. Giles’ church is reversed, i.e., with foot toward the 
West. 
Mr. Pitchford had five children. The eldest son, born in 
1771, was named John, and wa^ also a Roman Catholic; there 
is therefore some confusion between father and son. John 
Pitchford, junior, was a pupil at Norwich Grammar School 
when Dr. Parr was head-master (1779-1786). On January 
24th, 1797, the son accompanied his father for the first time to 
see the Gurneys at Earlham. He was then working in a 
Norwich laboratory. In 1810 John Pitchford, surgeon, was 
living in Snailgate street, 3 and was President of Norwich 
Public Library ; in 1811 he Avas a Guardian of the Poor, and 
in 1816 a member of the Managing Committee of the Norwich 
Savings Bank. On September 24th of that year, at a public 
meeting in St. Andrew’s Hall he moved for a petition to the 
House of Commons asking for the greatest possible retrench- 
ment of the public expenditure and a reform in the Commons. 
In the early period of the French Revolution a periodical 
called “ The Cabinet ” was established by the Whig party in 
