Modern Pickwick Club

It was a hard and fast rule that no refreshments would be taken at the member's house, but after the meeting all would adjourn to the nearest hostelry.

[3] They produced plays, and competed in debating, tennis tournaments and cricket matches.

Their annual ball, held at the North Adelaide Institute, was considered the highlight of the season and eagerly awaited.

Founding members include: James Wardlaw Gordon (died 29 August 1922) (secretary),[7] Benjamin H. Gillman[8] (Chairman), P. A. von Bertouch[9] W. H. Porter, H. S. Brondel, Douglas Malcolm, B. H. Kelsey, and R. H. Kelsey.

Newspapermen Berkeley Conigrave, Roland Harcus Kelsey,[12] Norman Malcolm, William Cormack Calder, Ernest Whitington, Rodney Cockburn and James Chamberlain were all members, as were lawyers George McEwin, Angas Parsons and Mellis Napier, Edgar Layton Bean,[13] and Crown Solicitor Howard Alison Shierlaw.

[22] Volunteers who survived include Majors Harry Thomson and John James Hughes, Capts.

J. C. Martin[5] Other members were: R. F. Richardson, who was elected a life member,[25] Harold Wilkinson,[26] one (perhaps Robert) Northey,[27] William H. Porter[28] Herb Degenhardt and Clarence Degenhardt, Harold Kelsey, Bert Hambidge, and (later Sir) Frederick W.

[4] Others of the legal fraternity who were once members, include John Howard Vaughan, Spencer Toler Toler-Rowley, Rudolph Paul Albrecht von Bertouch, Percy Emerson Johnstone, and Edward Warner Benham.

The medical profession was represented by Frank Magarey[32] and Edward Ernest Moule, later of Wagin, Western Australia.