BRITAIN’S OLDEST MAN DIES
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16 Mr. Alfred Charles N. Arnold, Britain’s oldest man, died in a convalescent home at Liverpool, aged 112. He attributed his long life to Yogi, the Hindu system of meditation and ascetiscism. which he studied in India in 1852. His teacher was 147 years old. Mr. Arnold claimed to remember Queen Victoria’s Coronation procession in 1837. He had tea with Dickens, coffee with Disraeli and cigars with King Edward VII.
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Northern Advocate, 17 September 1941, Page 2
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