ORIGIN AND EDUCATION. 



and in this sense justifies the prominence I give 10 

 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, indeed, 

 no drawback to his getting on in life. He had one 

 advantage ; he was carefully 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 

 magistrate 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. He had all the advantage of a 

 good presence ; for though short in stature he was of 

 handsome and pleasing appearance, and was quite the 

 finished gentleman in the suavity of his 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 

 suspect, only that attention which it suited him to 

 give for the practical aims of his life. He certainly 



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