Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Frederick Audley Pickard-Cambridge

22/06/1903 –06/03/1912

Berkhamsted School pupil, born in Svinajar, Kashmir, India, died of measles aged 8

• James Moir
• Lea Wills

Frederick Audley Pickard-Cambridge, d. 6th March 1912, aged 8 from measles, appendicitis and meningitis.  Connection to Berkhamsted School – funeral attended by masters in gowns.

Further research from Lea Wills, tending grave (and digging deeper):

Engraved on Frederick’s tombstone, on the upper stone: “In loving memory of Frederick Audley, youngest son of Edward Douroure and Winifred M C Pickard-Cambridge.  Died March 6 1912 aged 8”

The lower stone reads: “If thou shalt call me to resign, what most I prize, it ne/er was mine”         Thy Will Be Done.

(Thy Will Be Done is a hymn written by Charlotte Elliott, who also wrote ‘Just As I Am’.  She was born in Brighton and a distant relative of Virginia Woolf).

Frederick was born on 22 June 1903 in Svinajar, Kashmir, India.  He was the fourth and last child of Edward Douroure and Winifred M.C. Pickard-Cambridge.  He died in Berkhamsted aged 8 on 6 March 1912.  (Wiki-Tree)

The 1911 census tells us that Frederick and his family lived at The Perch, Kings Rd. His siblings were:

• Trenchard Duroure Pickard-Cambridge b. Murree, Punjab 1894
• Dorothy Catherine Pickard-Cambridge (Fuller)  b. Ambala, Bengal 1896
• Edward Adair Pickard-Cambridge  b.  Kasauli Punjab 1897

Mr Pickard-Cambridge was a retired Army major of the British Infantry and that Dorothy was at boarding school at that time.

Frederick’s father died in Berkhamsted in 1932.  His mother moved to Brighton where both she and Dorothy died many years later.

Frederick’s brother, Edward, served as Captain in the Suffolk Regiment 1924 Defence Corps in Sudan.

Frederick’s great grandfather, George Pickard-Cambridge was brother to Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Education M.A., Durham University, Fellow of Royal Society from 9.9.1887. Interested in Birds and spiders, FRS and Zoologist

I was curious about the double-barrelled surname and found that ‘Cambridge’ was added in 1790 by George Pickard, Frederick’s great-great grandfather.       Lea Wills