Instead he joined his parents in an unsuccessful canal building endeavor in Upper Canada, and after only a short turn as a barrister on his return to England, took a job managing a mine in Cornwall that ended with his employer suing him.
Instead he joined his parents in an unsuccessful canal building endeavor in Upper Canada. After only a short turn as a barrister on his return to England, he took a job managing a Great Wheal Vor United tin mine in Cornwall that ended with his employer suing him.