Elves

Elves, JOHN, M.P., a famous miser, born in 1714, was the son of a successful brewer in Southwark named Meggot. With some good qualities of mind, he was so overcome by the passion of avarice that he would walk miles in the rain to save the hire of a conveyance, would sit for hours in wet clothes to save the expense of a fire, or risk his life to save paying a penny at a turnpike. His only indulgence seems to have been hunting. He died at Marcham, Berkshire, 26th November 1789, leaving property worth half a million.