The name of Pickwick may be traced to that of a Bath based coach-proprietor, for it is recorded that Dickens. on seeing it painted on the door of a stage-coach which had passed him in the street, rushed to the publishers' office, exclaiming "I've got it. Moses Pickwick, Bath, coach-master."

It is interesting to learn that the same Moses Pickwick was a foundling, left one night in Pickwick Street, and brought up in Coreham workhouse till he was old enough to be employed in the stables where the mail coaches changed horses ; then he got to be head ostler, and eventually coach-propietor. Hid Christian name was given to him as being a foundling, and his surname from the village where he was left as an infant. *