Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs.

  • John Timbs
Date:
1863
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Credit: Things to be remembered in daily life : with personal experiences and recollections / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    living of his parish 92 years; so that he could scarcely be less than ] 16 years old. The Rev. R. Lufkin, Rector of Ufford, Suffolk, died Sep- tember 1678, aged 110, having preached the Sunday before he died. Morton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, who died 1695, aged 95, constantly rose at four o'clock to his studies when he was 80 years old; he usually lay upon a straw bed, and seldom exceeded one meal a day. Here are two lengthy incumbencies: 1753, December 22. Rev. Mr. BraithAvaite, of Carlisle, [died] aged 110. He had been 100 years in the cathedral, having commenced singing- boy in the year 1652. 1763. Rev. Peter Alley (Rector of Donamow, Ireland, 73 years), [died] in the 111th year of his age. He did his own duty till within a few days of his death; he was twice married, and had thirty-three children.* The Rev. John Bedwell, Rector of Odstock, near Salis- bury, according to the Bishop's registry, held that benefice 73 years; and, by the parish register, died at the age of 108. The Rev. S. W. Warneford, the munificent benefactor to colleges and schools, died 1855, aged 92; and Maltby, Bishop of Durham, 1859, at 90. Soldiers who survive the chances of war are proverbial for long life: there are several instances recorded in the Chelsea Hospital burial-ground. The lists of the survivors of England's great battles present instances ranging from 100 to 120 years.f The oldest General of our time was Marshal Count Joseph Radetzsky, who died January 5,1858, in his 92d year. *' History only mentions a single man who, at such an advanced age, commanded an army in the field; and that was Dandolo, the Doge of Venice, who was 95 years of age, and almost blind, when he commanded the Venetians in the great Crusade, and who was the first to enter Constantinople at the time of the assault on it in 1203. Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, was 83 years old when he commanded in Guienne, in 1453 ; but he was killed in the same year at the battle of Chatillon. Fuentes, General of the Spanish * Selections Gent. Mag. vol. iv. p. 299. t See Choice Notes (History), pp. 170-177; and Military Centenarians, Notes and Queries, 2d series, No. 232, pp. 238, 239, for several well-authenticated re- cords.
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