Melmoth (comics) Melmoth (comics) Melmoth is the fifth novel in Canadian cartoonist Dave Sim's "Cerebus" comic book series. It follows Oscar (a caricature of Oscar Wilde) in his last days leading up until his death, while Cerebus sits catatonic, clutching the doll of Jaka, the woman he loves but believes has been killed. The novel was collected as the sixth paperback "phonebook" collection in the series in October 1991. After Jaka, Rick and Oscar's arrest (and Pud's death), Cerebus returns to the Lower City, where he uses a gold coin to buy room and board at Dino's for the rest of his
William Melmoth Walters William Melmoth Walters William Melmoth Walters (1835-1925) was a former President of the Incorporated Law Society (1891-1892) and member of an old Somerset family. Walters was the eldest son of John Eldad Walters of Lincoln's Inn and Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom. He was a nephew-in-law of Sir Christopher Rawlinson. Walters was a descendant of William Melmoth, the poet William King and a relation of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. On 17 July 1860, he married Marian Eleanor, eldest child of Alfred Leggatt, Esq. He was the father of the famous amateur footballers Arthur Melmoth Walters