A CENTENARIAN DOCTOR.
The council of ; the Boyal. College of Surgeons on January 13 sent' a congratulatory letter to Dr. Edgar Jones, of Great Burstead, near Brentwood, on attaining his one hundredth birthday. ~lt was announced that the. King has already sent a letter to the aged doctor congratulating him on the happy event. Dr. Jones qualified as a membor of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1834, and is its oldest member. In tho same year ho also became a licentiate in the Socicty of Apothecaries. He then resided at Brislington, near Bristol, but a few years later he-vent to Saffron Walden, and has resided in Essex eversince. He has been a magistrate for that county for upwards of fifty years, and until a few years ago regularly attended tho sittings of the bench. i Ho is in excellent health for his years, his appetite is good, . and he can read I without the aid of glasses. He is said to have always been a non-smoker and an abstainer from alcohol. Ho used to hunt and play cricket a good deal, and when over sixty he climbed Snowdon from Llanberis. He played tennis when overeighty. j
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 14
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197A CENTENARIAN DOCTOR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 14
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