Grub

( Jonathan ), a stock broker, weighted with the three plagues of life—a wife, a handsome marriageable daughter, and £100,000 in the Funds, “any one of which is enough to drive a man mad; but all three to be attended to at once is too much.” Mrs. Grub , a wealthy city woman, who has moved from the east to the fashionable west quarter of London, and has abandoned merchants and tradespeople for the gentry. Emily Grub , called Milly , the handsome daughter of Jonathan. She marries Captain Bevil of the Guards.—O’Brien, Cro Purposes .