# John Smauker — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> John Smauker in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** John, Mr. John Smauker, John Smauker, Mr. Smauker, Smauker

**First appearance:** 0026-xxv

## Who they are

A servant to a gentleman in Bath, who befriends Sam Weller.

## In the story

### [Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller's absence, by describing a soiree to which he was invited and went; also relates how he was entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a private mission of delicacy and importance.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxvii)

A Bath footman who invites Sam to the soiree and introduces him to the company.

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