The world’s oldest living man has turned 112 at his care home in Merseyside, United Kingdom.
John Alfred Tinniswood, who lives in Southport, put his long life down to “just luck”, and said he did not follow a special diet, except for eating fish and chips every Friday.
Tinniswood was born in 1912 – the same year the Titanic sunk. He became the world’s oldest living man earlier this year, inheriting the title from 114-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez, of Venezuela, who died in April.
Tinniswood already held the title of the UK’s oldest man, which he gained in 2020.
A lifelong Liverpool football fan, Tinniswood was born in the city only 20 years after the club was founded. He has lived through almost all of the club’s highs and lows, including all eight of the Reds’ FA Cup wins and most of their league victories.
The oldest man ever recorded was Jiroemon Kimura, of Japan, who died in 2013 at the age of 116 years and 54 days.
Meanwhile, the world’s oldest living person is the Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, who is 116.
She only took over the title this month after Maria Branyas Morera, who died in her nursing home in Olot, north-eastern Spain, at the age of 117 years and 168 days.
The oldest verified person on record is the Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days. (The Guardian)
