He was to all appearance a simple country squire.
When he was between fifteen and sixteen he became a squire.
He managed to get more money than his father could ever get, and at one of his diets won the hearts of the whole assembly by unexpectedly appearing before them in the simple grey coat of a Masovian squire.
The old Welsh squire of this stamp was the very quintessence of punctuality and promptitude.
Before he was three he had insisted on being taken to hear Sacheverel preach at Lichfield Cathedral, and had listened to the sermon with as much respect and probably with as much intelligence, as any Staffordshire squire in the congregation.