I'll give you an example of how he grew rich.

In consequence of some mortgage business he came into possession of a field at Clapham.

As late as 1875 this field brought him only a rent of forty pounds; it was freehold property, and he refused many offers of purchase.

Well, in 1885, the year before he died, the ground-rents from that field--now covered with houses--were seven hundred and ninety pounds a year.

That's how men get on who have capital and know how to use it.