BRITAIN'S OLDEST MAN
DEATH ANNOUNCED LONDON, Sept. 16. Mr Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, Britain's oldest man, died in a convalescent home in Liverpool, aged 112. Mr Arnold attributed his long life to Yoga, the Hindu system of meditation and asceticism, 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 8
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