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Charles Dion Bicknall(29) (101) King Street
History of (29) King Street
1851
?
1861
(101)
Edward Fordham, 58, painter and glazier, b Cambridge
1881
(101) Fordham
1901
(101) Fordham
1913
(29) Arthur Chapman, labourer
1927
Charles Dion Bicknell, as told to the CEN by Alec Clark-Kennedy, bursar of Corpus Christi College:
Bicknell was the first of the tourist guides. He look like a tourist’s idea of a don. he was taken on here in 1922 out of charity to look after the Lewis Collection of Classical Antiquities. he was an Old Persean, who was taught by Dr Rouse, and a graduate of St Catherine’s, where he read classical archaeology. he always wore a pair of grey, stained slacks, no socks, and old brown tween coat, a button down pullover underneath with a neck tie of a creton material cut out of old curtains. He sported a silver topped black cane.
He died in 1958 (according to CEN) aged 68.
1962
Charles D Bicknell M.A.
2018
demolished
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