Wow, Cary Elwes's ancestor was a real TIGHTARSE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Elwes#Personal_life
One of Elwes' ancestors is John Elwes [see below], who is alleged in some sources to have been the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elwes_(politician)

John Elwes [né Meggot or Meggott] (a.k.a. "Elwes the Miser"), MP (7 April 1714 – 26 November 1789) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in Great Britain for Berkshire (1772–84) and a noted eccentric and miser, suggested to be an inspiration for the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

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*He went to bed when darkness fell so as to save on candles.

*He began wearing only ragged clothes, including a beggar's cast-off wig he found in a hedge and wore for two weeks.

*His clothes were so dilapidated that many mistook him for a common street beggar, and would put a penny into his hand as they passed.

*To avoid paying for a coach he would walk in the rain, and then sit in wet clothes to save the cost of a fire to dry them.

*His house was full of expensive furniture but also moulding food. He would eat putrefied game before allowing new food to be bought. On one occasion it was said that he ate a moorhen that a rat had pulled from a river.

*Rather than spend the money for repairs he allowed his spacious country mansion to become uninhabitable.

*Even on the coldest day of winter he was known to sit fireless at his meals, saying that eating was "exercise enough" to keep him warm.

*If a stableboy put out hay for a visitor's horse, Elwes would sneak out and remove it.

*The famed miser was also known to sleep in the same worn garments he wore during the day.

*At his neglected estates he continued to forbid repairs, joined his tenants in postharvest gleaning, and sat with his servants in the kitchen to save the cost of a fire elsewhere.

*His barrister, who drew up his £800,000 will, was forced to undertake his writings in the firelight by the dying man's bedside in order to save the cost of a candle.

So damn tight.