[1][2] He started a coaching business that came to be based at The White Hart inn opposite the iconic Pump Room.

Pickwick invested tens of thousands of pounds in the canal business after its bankers refused to lend any more capital.

[4] It is widely believed that Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers after visiting Bath using the surname he had seen there.

Eleazer Pickwick's nephew, Charles Henry Pickwick-Sainsbury (1829-1885), descendants changed their name to Sainsbury.

It has been speculated that part of the motive may have been to discard their lowly born ancestry, favouring their mothers (Harriet Sarah Sainsbury) prestigious line; and Dickens' caricatures that bore their name.