TRIPLETS NEARLY NINETY
ONE WHO KNEW DICKENS LONDON, June 30. Mr Charles Mayhew, the eldest by three-quarters of an hour of triplet brothers, one of whom is living in Australia and the third in Canada, will celebrate his ,90th birthday next month. Ha lives in Eowton House, King’s Cross. . A shoemaker in his early days, Mr Mayhew recalls how Dickens used to visit his shop and sit watching shoes being made for him. He was a chorister for 70 years and sang at the Duke of Wellington’s funeral in 1852. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21386, 14 July 1931, Page 7
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