henrybrewster

[henrybrewster]

Goodness, MR. HENRY BREWSTER has arrived in London. HE is 31, of the BERKSHIRE BREWSTERS. Though they are NEW to the Season, we can only describe them as HARDWORKING and COURAGEOUS, dear reader. Accompanied by NO ONE, they have settled in and are accepting social calls. But be warned: they are known for their COMPETITIVENESS.

BASIC INFORMATION

NAME: Henry Oscar Brewster

NICKNAMES: Harry or Hank

BIRTHPLACE: Berkshire, England

BIRTHDAY: November 12, 1769

AGE: Thirty-One

GENDER: Male

PRONOUNS: He/Him

STATUS: Single

BACKGROUND

Timeline

Full bio

CONDENSED BIOGRAPHY

The second youngest of six. Henry was born in Berkshire, the son of two farmers. 

He came out of the womb being an ambitious little shit much to the disdain of his simple father who just wanted a normal child.

His mother, on the other side, was glad she had finally given birth to a child with some initiative. In this family, parents clearly had their favorites and they were not shy to let everyone know.

An academic? Lol not Henry. He loathed school and pretty much stayed until he learned how to do basic math and then was like bye.

Worked on his father’s farm for a few years but at some point, his dad was working for this twelve year old asshole.

At fifteen, Henry had enough of belle’s vc: this poor provincial town and with a loan of his mom he moved to London as one does.

First thing he did? He bet all his money on a horse race because only a self-confident son of a gun would do that and of course with all the luck in the world, he won more than he had bet.

He went through some shitty jobs eventually deciding that the sailor life was his true calling and he became a waterman on the Thames.

Henry was eighteen around this time and he took the sailor life too seriously meaning that he partied, drank and whored around. You know, regency boys are not too different from us.

At twenty-four war broke and the first to be enlisted were watermen but Henry was not one for patriotism, especially when he could be making money. So, he took a ship to New York and pretty much deserted the army. No one said he was brave, okay

He befriended a young London man on the ship and during whatever time it took to get to NYC they decided to become business partners. His friend had the education he lacked and Henry had the business mind.

Worked on the ferry industry for a few months before he and his friend began a fur trade business and they made a lot of money.

But Henry needed more and he started getting into the smuggling opium business while also investing in real estate so no one would find it sus.

Lived in there for about seven years but a new lucrative deal brought him back home. He has now a pretty mansion and well, he is looking for the Mrs. 

His family hates his guts and yeah that’s all.

PERSONALITY

**summary: deep down a super nice and kind person but business and money bring out the worst in him. 

Henry is an introvert whose achievements have forced him to get out of his comfort zone and appear more sociable than he really is.

A man of great gifts, he's always been genuinely humble. He believes in hard work, family, luck and the greater good.

He cherishes private, isolated life and attempts at shirking social responsibilities.

When it comes to business, he can be extremely ruthless. It is almost as if he lived two lives: the private one who was good as gold and the merchant one who is cunning, cold-blooded and extremely ambitious. He’s grappled with the incongruity of that for a long time.

Clearly he wasn’t educated in the high society and it shows even if he has tried his best to appear the perfect gentleman worthy of marrying a lady from a proper family. In the past couple of years, he’s been preparing himself in etiquette, literature and arts but it’s not something that comes naturally to him.

Henry can be headstrong, stubborn, manipulative and willing to risk almost anything to make money. However, young Henry was secretive in his heart which guarded a noble and thoughtful side, perhaps inherited by his father; therefore, causing him to dislike it to a certain degree. Business is business and he took this phrase seriously. If money or sealing a deal was on the line, you bet that Henry would do anything to close it.

Nonetheless, he was smart, cagey and suspicious of fortune too easily won. He was scrupulous in distinguishing the things that came to him through luck from those he felt he'd earned. Luck was the gift of being an innate negotiator but saving that money and making more was something he’d earned. After all, talents were only worth it if they were put to good use.

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Sam Claflin as Alistair Ryle The Riot Club ( 2014 ) Dir. Lone Scherfig