34 MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



end. He had but few or no good horses afterwards, 

 nor cared to give much in making further purchases. 



He was undoubtedly a most successful and exceed- 

 ingly clever man ; but the risk he was continually 

 running in his multifarious and gigantic transactions 

 made him irritable, and even his doubtful pleasure 

 could have been but ' restless ecstasy,' whilst his 

 disquietude must have been often lasting and painful. 

 A complication of diseases, gout (to which he was a 

 martyr), and bronchitis, brought his fitful life to a 

 close in the autumn of 1880 at his town residence, 

 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, after suffering much 

 pain, leaving a wife and son to lament his loss. 



