Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1907 — Nelld, Miser. [ARTICLE]

Nelld, Miser.

John Camden Neild, whose magnificent bequest to Queen Victoria supplied the funds out of which the prince consort built the present Balmoral castle, deserves a place among the great misers and was as remarkable a man *as anv of them. He was at Eton and Trinity college, Cambridge, and was a barrister at Linooln’s inn. At the age of thirty-four his father’s death placed him iu possession of a fortune of 250,000 pounds and from that moment he became a confirmed miser. Neild lived at 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea. His big house was so meanly furnished that it did 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 walked, unless he could get a lift for nothing. Sometimes he was compelled by the weather to take a seat on the stage coach. And there he would sit on the outside, shivering and dripping—for he never wore a greatcoat—an object of commiseration to his fellow passengers.