The Life of Thomas 'Cabbage' Cooke - Georgian Miser and Confidence Trickster

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Thomas 'Cabbage' Cook was a Georgian sugar producer and a very nasty man. Born in poverty, he conned a poor widow into marrying him by threatening to ruin her and through that made himself very wealthy. He neglected her, providing her with only a diet of cabbages and rotten meat, while he dined at the tables of the wealthy. The cabbages he grew himself, even going as far as manuring them himself with his own faeces. He died as rich as Croesus and unlamented, the women of Islington throwing rotten cabbage stalks on his coffin - but in an odd twist to the tale he left £30,0000 to charity to support widows and orphans. Did he have a change of heart in his last days?

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