# Jack Bamber — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Jack Bamber in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Jack Bamber, old Jack Bamber

**First appearance:** 0014-xiii

## Who they are

An old debtor in the Fleet who tells ghostly stories.

## In the story

### [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxi)

The old man who tells the tale of the queer client and the Marshalsea prison.

### [XLIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xliv)

The dying Chancery prisoner in the infirmary, attended by the old cobbler, who reads the Bible to him.

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