Jemmy Wood

[3] It operated from Wood's drapery shop in Westgate Street; his practice was to offer no interest on deposits of less than one year.

[4] Wood also owned an undertaking business and extensive land in and around the City of Gloucester.

[5] Charles Dickens may have been inspired by the stories about the Gloucester Miser to create the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in his 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.

Wood died in 1836 and was buried in St Mary de Crypt Church in Gloucester where there is a gravestone to his memory in the chancel.

[5] The crowd at his funeral reportedly "...evinced a levity of demeanor inconsistent with the solemnity of the occasion"[5] and his coffin was said to have been stoned.