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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2613, 24 May 1877, Page 2

Mr John T. Waller, M.E.C.S., writes thus from Flegy Burgh, Norwich :—MI think it just possible that your readers may be interested in knowing that the last of the two giants of Ea"st Anglia is no more. His name was . Benjamin Daniels, and he was born, and lived all his life, as a farmer at Scratby, on the coast, about six miles north of Yarmouth, and five miles from Somerton, the birth and resting-place of Hales, the "Norfolk giant. He died on the 6th of this month, and on the 12th was buried in the adjoining village—Ormesby St. Margaret—the funeral being witnessed by a large concourse. His age was fifty-fourjheight 6ft. 6in., weight 24 stone, width from shoulder to shouJder, across the back, 20in., symmetry- grand, strength great, frequently loading his own wagon with corn by carrying four bushels of wheat under each arm at one time, and he has brought wreckage- off the beach which had foiled three men. When in great haste to have his farm work done, horses being much engaged, I have seen him harnessed to one of his harrows, and cultivating the land. He has left a widow, but no family. He was an exceedingly good-natured man."