His father had died while Carew was but an infant, so that the surplus income from his vast estates had accumulated to an enormous sum when he attained his majority.

In the mean time, his doting mother had supplied him with funds out of all proportion to his tender years.

At ten years old, he had a pack of harriers of his own, and hunted the county regularly twice a week.

At the public school, where he was with difficulty persuaded to remain for a short period, he had an allowance the amount of which would have sufficed for the needs of a professional man with a wife and family, and yet it is recorded of him that he had the audacity--"the boy is father to the man," and it was "so like Carew," they said--to complain to his guardian, a great lawyer, that his means were insufficient.

He also demanded a lump sum down, on the ground that (being at the ripe age of fourteen) he contemplated marriage.