Formerly a broker's man, afterwards beadle of the parish. "The life of this gentleman has been one of a very chequered description; he has undergone transitions; not from grave to gay, for he never was grave; not from lively to severe, for severity forms no part of his disposition; his fluctuations have been between poverty in the extreme, and poverty modified; or, to use his own emphatic languages, between nothing to eat, and just half enough"