A proctor's constable (at Cambridge University).
"The records of the nineteenth century shed light on the trades which surrounded undergraduates and academics alike: ink-sellers, japanners, auctioneers, breech-cleaners, and bacon-sellers, with a victualler who was also a stay-maker, but the Proctors' trade of 1852 seemed reassuringly familiar in its triviality... I shan't forget the image of Bulldog Harvey, megaphone to his lips outside Schools, shouting 'Don't spray it, drink it.'"
Frank Stubbings, Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge ABC (1991)
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