Francis Broderip

He also endowed the Law Society's Broderip Prize of a gold medal to a promising young lawyer.

[2] Broderip lived at 2 Gower Street in London's Bloomsbury district, in a house that was later occupied by women's suffrage pioneer Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929) and is now a grade II listed building.

[5] He had a large art collection that was sold by Christie, Manson & Woods after his death in a sale of more than 1,500 lots that lasted nine days and included works in oil, watercolour, drawings, bronzes, ivories, porcelain, miniatures, and furniture.

There were five works by J. M. W. Turner, The Little Scribe by William Etty, landscapes by Thomas Creswick, Boy with a House of Cards by Jean Chardin, and a Scene from Le Diable Boiteux by Augustus Egg.

[6][7] The image of a boy building a house of cards has traditionally been interpreted as a metaphor for the fragility of life and the temptations facing the young.

Broderip's home at 2 Gower Street, Bloomsbury. Later the home of women's suffrage pioneer Millicent Fawcett.
One version of The House of Cards by Jean Chardin. The version that Broderip owned has not been identified.