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He was born in the year that the Titanic sank and can call himself the oldest man on this earth since the death of the Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez Mora earlier this week. “Pure luck,” puts 111-year-old Briton John Alfred Tinniswood into perspective.
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Tinniswood was born in Liverpool on August 26, 1912 and lives in a care home in Southport, where staff describe him as “a big chatterbox”. At least the man is still sane. Despite his age, Tinniswood still gets out of bed without help, listens to the radio to keep up with the news and manages his own finances.
Tinniswood has no secret for its longevity. “Pure luck,” he tells Guinness World Records. “You live long or you live short, and there’s not much you can do about that.” The man also does not follow a special diet, except for a fixed portion of fish and chips on Friday. But “drinking too much, eating or whatever” is never good, he warns. “You will ultimately suffer the consequences.”
Tinniswood has been the oldest Briton since 2020, and can also call himself the oldest war veteran in the world, albeit in an administrative job in the Army Pay Corps during World War II.
Not Japanese
When Perez Mora died earlier this week at the age of 114, it was initially thought that 112-year-old Gisaburo Sonobe had become the oldest man in the world, but it has now been confirmed that the Japanese died on March 31.
Tinniswood is not yet the oldest man ever. That remains the Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, who died in 2013 after 116 years and 54 days on this earth. The oldest woman and person in the world remains the Spanish Maria Branyas Morera. She was recently allowed to blow out 117 candles.
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