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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

World’s oldest known man dies aged 112 in Merseyside

John Tinniswood in a grey armchair in a blue shirt and dark blue sweater vest
John Tinniswood previously said that living to an advanced old age was ‘just luck’. Photograph: Guinness World Records/Reuters

John Tinniswood, who was the world’s oldest living man, has died at his care home on Merseyside surrounded by “music and love”, his family said. He was 112.

The former accountant was born on 26 August 1912, the same year that the Titanic sank; the year the character Tarzan first appeared and the doomed Polar explorer Captain Robert Scott wrote his last lines: “It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more – R. Scott – For God’s sake look after our people.”

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