Ebenezer Scrooge
Country of Origin: England

or the greed of money, Ebenezer Scrooge let young love slip through his fingers and aged without the companionship of his nephew Fred, his only living family. He became a profitable business man, but at the expense of fair wages and betterment of his clerk, Bob Cratchit.

In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, we find the curmudgeonly character Scrooge going home to spend another Christmas alone. Only through the supernatural visits of the ghost of his old partner and the three spirits of Christmas, is he able to reconnect with his fellow man and learn the joys of a generous heart. This tale takes Scrooge from being the antagonist to the protagonist in his own story, making it a classic of Victorian literature.

“If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”
Scrooge – A Christmas Carol

Sources for the History of Ebenezer Scrooge:

http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/christmascarol/
http://classiclit.about.com/library/weekly/aa121000a.htm