all-man-sir

Updated: August 28, 2026

There is a delightful sketch of one named "Captain All-man-sir," as big a boaster as Falstaff, and a more delicately etched portrait of the Town Wit, who is summed up as the "jack-pudding of society" in the judgment of all wise men, but an incomparable wit in his own.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London