Legacy
Pilch appears in the Flashman novel Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser. In the novel Pilch is caught and bowled by Flashman in a fictional game set at Lord's between Rugby Old Boys and Kent in 1842.
In June 2008 it was reported in The Times that Pilch's grave at St. Gregory's churchyard in Canterbury was among 200 other graves which were preventing the development of the churchyard into a Canterbury Christ Church University concert hall, as they could not be located for removal. In July 2008 it was reported that the grave had been located through the use of an old photograph and the memories of local people.
Fuller Pilch is mentioned in the song "Gentlemen and Players" on the 2009 cricket concept album The Duckworth Lewis Method, created by Irish duo Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)