Samuel Pickwick
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Fictional character.
Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), the first novel by author Charles Dickens. One of the author's most famous and loved creations, Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, a club formed to explore places remote from London and investigate the quaint and curious phenomena of life found there.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Dr. Watson said that Charles Augustus Milverton had something of Mr. Pickwick's benevolence in his appearance (CHAS 58).
