Lawrence M'Carthy, who was probably th.c oldest man in the world, and the last survivor of the combatants at Waterloo, has just died in the Workhouse Hospital at Nenagh, Tipperary, in his 116 th year. M'Carthy was bora ia Nenagh early in 1782, and was accordingly some months old at tbe time of the establishment of Grattan's Parliament in tho April of that year. He had a vivid recollection of the horrors of the Eebellion of 1798, and had attained bis thirty-fourth year when he fought in the Battle of Waterloo, where he was severely wounded.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2289, 13 January 1898, Page 10
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96Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Witness, Issue 2289, 13 January 1898, Page 10
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