Cedric Charles Dickens the Dickens Fellowship, a worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of Charles Dickens, first taking that position on the death of his father in 1968, and again on his retirement in 1976, when he also founded the Dickens Pickwick Club, a society with an international membership. This he kept true to the spirit of the original in "The Pickwick Papers" by only allowing men to join, which in 2000 led to an accusation of sexism. In demand internationally as a guest and speaker at meetings of Dickens Fellowships and other events connected with
Woolverton Manor to the priory of Carisbrooke, but the manor afterwards passed into the Dineley or Dingley family. I may here observe that Elizabeth, daughter of one John Dingley, married, in 1571, Sir John Leigh, then a youthful gentleman, 25 years old. I cannot help thinking that this marriage led to Sir John's purchase of Noith Court, which was probably effected about ten years later. In the reign of Etizabeth, the manor of Woolverton is said to have contained three hundred acres. At the Revolution, it was purchased by Maurice Hunt and Anthony Morgan, Esqrs. The manor house and principal farm afterwards