Show remarkable LIFE OF MISER engi hoarded pennies and left large fortune to queen john camden neild whose cent bequest to Q been victoria sup piled the funds out of which the prince consort built the present bal moral castle deserves a place among the great misers and was as remark able a man as any of them he was educated at eton and trinity college cambridge and was a barrister at lincoln s inn at the age of 34 his father s death placed 1 in posses slon of a fortune of and from that moment he became a con firmed miser nelld lived at 5 cheyne walk chel sea his big house was so meanly furnished that it d d not even boast of a bed two old women who did his stoves and a black cat were his sole companions when he visited his large estates in the midlands which he did frequently he generally walk ed unless he could get a lift for noth ing and he was not even above tak ing a gratuitous seat on a dung cart sometimes he was compelled by the weather to take a seat on the stage coach and there he sit out side shivering and dripping for he never wore a greatcoat an object of commiseration to his fellow jasien gers |