Kirby, R. S. [Editor]; Kirby, R. S. [Oth.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. III.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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INSTANCES OF REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.

Year.
Age.
Year.
Age.
1767
Francis Ange
134
1773
Swarling, a Monk
142
1777
John Brookey
134
1773
Charles M'Findlay
143
1714
Jane Harrison
135
1757
John Effingham
144
1759
James Sheile
136
1782
Evan Williams
145
1768
Catherine Noon
136
1766
Thomas Winsloe
146
1771
Margaret Forster
136
1772
J. C. Draakenberg
146
1776
John Moriat
136
1652
William Mead
48
1772
John Richardson
137
1768
Francis Consit
150
1793
-Robertson
137
1542
Thomas Newman
152
1757
William Sharpley
13S
1635
Thomas Parr
152
1768
John M‘Donough
138
1656
James Bowels
152
1770
John Fairbrother
138
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Henry West
152
1772
Mrs. Clum
138
1648
Thomas Damme
154
1766
Thomas Dobson
139
1762
A Polish Peasant
157
1785
Alary Cameron
139
1797
Joseph Surrington
160
1732
William Leland
140
1668
William Edwards
168
Countess of Desmond
140
1670
Henry Jenkins
162
1770
James Sands
140
1780
Louisa Truxo
173

To these may be added, a Mulatto man who died in 1797,
in Frederick Town, North America, and who was said to
be 180 years old.
In the County Chronicle of December 13, 1791, a para-
graph was inserted, which stated, that “ Thomas Carn, ac-
cording to the parish register of St. Leonard, Shoreditch,
died the 28th of January, 1588, aged 207.” This is an in-
stance of longevity, so far exceeding any other on record,
that one is disposed to suspect some mistake either in the
register or in the extract.
In our subsequent numbers we intend to present our
readers with particulars relative to such of the persons
above-mentioned, of whom any thing remarkable is re-
corded, together with original portraits.

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