Volume 2

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DANIEL DANCER, Esq. Htf Mr. Dancer was born in the year 1716, near Harrow-on-the-hill, in the county of Middlesex, but was removed in his infancy to Pinner, in the same county. A parsimonious and miserly dispo¬ sition were distinguishing: traits in his character. His father had three sons and one daughter, each of whom was distinguished for certa n pe¬ culiarities, either of mind or body. A penurious disposition, however, was the most prominent; indeed, it seems to have been hereditary, for it ran through the family. It is a circumstance worthy of notice, that Mr. Dancer did not, in his early years, betray that excessive love for money for which he became afterwards celebrated* Th is disclosure of his soul was reserved for ma~ turer years. When his father died he became independent, and then he began to act the part of a miser. Such was the eccentricity of his cha¬ racter, that though he scarcely allowed himself x 2