Jean Effingham died in Cornwall in 1757 in his one hundred and forty-fourth year.

He was born in the reign of James I and was a soldier at the battle of Hochstadt; he never drank strong liquors and rarely ate meat; eight days before his death he walked three miles.
Bridget Devine, the well-known inhabitant of Olean Street, Manchester died at the age of one hundred and forty-seven in 1845.

On the register of the Cheshire Parish is a record of the death of Thomas Hough of Frodsam in 1591 at the age of one hundred and forty-one.
Peter Garden of Auchterless died in 1775 at the age of one hundred and thirty-one.

He had seen and talked with Henry Jenkins about the battle of Flodden Field, at which the latter was present when a boy of twelve.
It seems almost incredible that a man could say that he had heard the story of an event which had happened two hundred and sixty-three years before related by the lips of an eye-witness to that event; nevertheless, in this case it was true.

A remarkable instance of longevity in one family has recently been published in the St.Thomas's Hospital Gazette.