He measured 96 inches around the shoulders, 85 inches around the waist, and 35 inches around the calf.

He was born at Glasgow in 1856, and was not quite twenty-two when last measured.

To illustrate the rate of augmentation, he weighed 4 stone at nine months and at ten years 18 stone.

He was one of a family of seven children.

His appetite was not more than the average, and he was moderate as regards the use of liquors, but a great smoker Notwithstanding his corpulency, he was intelligent and affable.
Miss Conley, a member of an American traveling circus, who weighed 479 pounds, was smothered in bed by rolling over on her face; she was unable to turn on her back without assistance.
There was a girl who died at Plaisance near Paris in 1890 who weighed 470 pounds or more.