John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born the year the Titanic sank, died on Monday aged 112 at a care home in Southport, Merseyside, just months after receiving a world record
The world’s oldest man – who was died the year the Titanic sank – has died aged 112 in a UK care home, his family has confirmed.
John Alfred Tinniswood officially obtained the title after he received the sought-after Guinness World Record award in April this year following the death of previous title-holder Juan Vicente Pérez Mora when he died at the age of 114. Being older than 100, he was one of the UK’s few “supercentenarians”.
Mr Tinniswood died on Monday at a care home in Southport, Merseyside, where he lived. His family said he was “surrounded by music and love”. He was born on August 26, 1912, and had previously been the oldest man in the UK, an honour he accepted in 2020, placing him alongside 115-year-old Ethel May Caterham, the UK’s oldest living woman.
The supercentenarian – who became a widower nearly 40 years ago in 1986 after 44 years of marriage to his wife, Blodwen – leaves behind a large family. He is survived by his daughter, Susan, four grandchildren Annouchka, Marisa, Toby and Rupert, and three great-grandchildren Tabitha, Callum and Nieve.
The lifelong Liverpool fan was born in the major UK city just 20 years after the Premier League was founded, and met his wife at a dance while living there. He was the world’s oldest surviving male World War Two veteran, but spent much of his career working as an accountant for Shell and BP before his retirement in 1972.
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