Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1875 — The Varied Fortunes of Life. [ARTICLE]

The Varied Fortunes of Life.

A London correspondent writes: “ A strange career came to a termination a few days since in an upper room at Gray’s Inn. A gentleman, who had been rescued by an old Rugby school-fellow from the cabstand, and had been taken by him to an attic in Gray’s Inn, died there. He was the son of a wealthy manufacturer of Manchester, a schoolboy at Rugby, and a graduate of Oxford University. Supported by Cobden, he became member of Parliament for a northern constituency. On the death of his father he became possessed of great wealth. Coming to London he read for the bar, but was never “called,” and then plunged into all the excesses of profligate life. He got into the divorce court, lost his friends, and changed his name. Then he “ran amuck” among the turfites, and, being cheated himself, in the attempt to retaliate by cheating others he was obliged to fly to California, where he was as reckless as he had been in England. After several years he changed his name again and returned to his country, where, failing to obtain otiier employment, he had to resort to the poor gentleman’s refuge, the occupation of cabariviSg, and finally ended his days as previously mentioned.