His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He certainly was not a manufacturer nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City" no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner he had no public employment he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. People said that he resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronic but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and thus is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.Mr. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (roughly £1,510,000 today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 ☏ (29 ☌) instead of 86 ☏ (30 ☌), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement.Later on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Despite his wealth, which is £40,000 (roughly £3,020,000 today), Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action", lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision.
Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872.
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