BRITAIN’S OLDEST MAN
DEATH IN CONVALESCENT HOME. AT AGE OF 112 YEARS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) I LONDON, September 16. Mr Alfred Charles Nunez Arnold, Britain’s oldest man, has died in a convalescent home in Liverpool, aged 112. Mr Arnold attributed his long life to the Yoga 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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