Searle was second only to the great Fuller Pilch in 1830. The great Fuller Pilch was still playing for Norfolk. Several schemes were run beneath the PILCH banner. Alumni would include future ITU presidents, Woodruff Randolph and John J. Pilch. Pilch (180) however interprets as alveolar, not long. Pilch moved to Canterbury in 1842 where he kept the "Saracen's Head". Pilch appears in the Flashman novel "Flashman's Lady" by George MacDonald Fraser. Nonetheless, Pilch remains little known outside the circles of connoisseurs of East European literature.