in the first instance, it
consists of not a dozen members, who periodically jogg off to Richmond
or elsewhere to take exercise and lunch together in riding-breeches and
good-fellowship. Of these the chief members have been Lord Russell of
Killowen (who on his elevation to the Bench as Lord Chief Justice sent
in his resignation, as you may see in Mr. Linley Sambourne's cartoon of
July 14th, 1894, by the letters on the scroll Lord Russell holds:
"P.P.C.--T.P.C."), Mr. Burnand, Sir John Tenniel, Mr. Linley Sambourne,
Mr. E. T. Reed, Mr. Harry Furniss, Sir Frank Lockwood, the Hon. Mr.
Russell, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mr. John Hare, Sir Edward Lawson, Mr.
George Alexander, and Mr. C. H. Matthews. But the savour of _Punch_ is
over it all, and though outsiders are of it, it is as much a _Punch_
club of _Punch_ origin as the one that went before. It has been said
that there is difference of opinion as to the source of its name, it
being supposed that it arose from one of the founders declaring that "it
didn't matter two pins what name it bore." The simple truth is that it
was christened after the names of two great riding worthies--at least
one worthy, the other unworthy--of English literature: John Gil_pin_ and
Dick Tur_pin_; of the latter of whom Thomas Hood tells us that when the
romantic malefactor was righteously hanged, after a spirit-swilling
career, he died of having had "a drop too much."

FOOTNOTES:

[7] The initials and monograms appear in the following order round the
Table: 1, Mark Lemon; 2, F. C. Burnand (second carving, after stencil by
Prof. Herkomer, R.A.); 3, John Tenniel; 4, Shirley Brooks; 5, Arthur a
Beckett; 6, R. C. Lehmann; 7, W. M. Thackeray; 8, Henry Silver; 9, Harry
Furniss; 10, John Leech; 11, G. du Maurier; 12, W. Bradbury; 13, Douglas
Jerrold; 14, E. J. Milliken; 15, F. M. Evans; 16, Tom Taylor; 17, Linley
Sambourne; 18, Phil May; 19, J. Bernard Partridge; 20, E. T. Reed; 21,
H. W. Lucy; 22, F. C. Burnand (first carving); 23, Gilbert a Beckett;
24, Anstey Guthrie; 25, Horace Mayhew; 26, Percival Leigh. Charles H.
Bennett died before he could complete his monogram, and Mr. R. F.
Sketchley neglected the duty--an omission he ever after regretted.

[8] See _Punch_ cartoon, "Who will Rouse Him?" (March 12th, 1859).

[9] Who subsequently put Hood's "Song of the Shirt" to music (published
from the _Punch_ office, price 2s. 6d.), as well as the "Songs for the
Sentimental," "_Punch's_ own Polka" (printed in