Another famous fat man was Edward Bright, sometimes called "the fat man of Essex." He weighed 616 pounds.

In the same journal that records Bright's weight is an account of a man exhibited in Holland who weighed 503 pounds.
Wadd, a physician, himself an enormous man, wrote a treatise on obesity and used his own portrait for a frontispiece.

He speaks of Doctor Beddoes, who was so uncomfortably fat that a lady of Clifton called him a "walking feather bed." He mentions Doctor Stafford, who was so enormous that this epitaph was ascribed to him:-- "Take heed, O good traveler! and do not tread hard, For here lies Dr.
Stafford, in all this churchyard." Wadd has gathered some instances, a few of which will be cited.

At Staunton, January 2, 1816, there died Samuel Sugars, Gent., who weighed with a single wood coffin 50 stone (700 pounds).

Jacob Powell died in 1764, weighing 660 pounds.