ORIGIN AND EDUCATION 3 



to one who made and left his mark upon the time in 

 which he lived. 



Mr. Padwick may be said to have shared with the 

 late Mr. Frederick Swindell, of Brighton, the reputation 

 of being the most successful man on the turf in his day. 

 He was born in Horsham, Sussex, at which place his 

 father was a butcher. He was not, as we know, the 

 first example of an exalted rise from such an origin. 

 His birth, if homely, proved no drawback to his getting 

 on in life. He had the advantage of being well educated, 

 the result being shown in the acquirement of the manners 

 and tastes of a gentleman. He was brought up to the 

 profession of the law, and in due time became a magis- 

 trate and deputy-lieutenant of his county. Indeed, I 

 may say, he never looked better than when he appeared 

 in uniform with cocked-hat and feathers at the opening 

 of the Great Exhibition of 1851, at which, in his official 

 position, he was in attendance on Prince Albert. Though 

 short in stature, he was of handsome and pleasing appear- 

 ance, and was quite a finished gentleman in suavity of 

 manner, and with the power, when he liked, to make 

 himself the best company in the world. 



Henry Padwick gave to the study of the law, I sus- 

 pect, only that attention which it suited him to give for 

 the practical aims of his life. He certainly never followed 

 it as a profession. The business he devoted himself to 

 was money-lending, which he carried on in a much larger 

 way than any man of his day. He had his own method 

 of transacting business, and would take for securities 

 things that the staid banker would reject as too risky. 

 And he was justified in the result, for he amassed a very 

 large fortune. He commenced business in Davis Street, 

 Berkeley Square ; there, at all events, I first became 

 acquainted with him a house as well known to needy 



