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The inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge - John Elwes

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He was a man so truly miserly he made Charles Dickens's Scrooge look like an amateur. How one millionaire MP - who scavenged food from RATS - proved the inspiration for the iconic character at the heart of A Christmas Carol​

  • John Elwes, a cruel 18th century MP was the inspiration for Scrooge
  • He hated buying food so much that he once took a half-eaten moorhen off a rat
  • Dickens experts believe sketches of Scrooge in the first edition of A Christmas Carol were based on contemporary portraits of Elwes
  • When he died in 1789, John Elwes was worth £36.5million in today’s money
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How one millionaire MP became the inspiration behind Scrooge

But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of literary imagination, what's less well-known is that the character had an inspiration in real life. John Elwes was a man so truly miserly.
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