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Radio Shropshire,04 Feb 2025,4 mins

The oldest man to have ever lived?

Secret Shropshire

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Alberbury’s Tom Parr lived for 152 years and 9 months, or did he? When he died in 1635 he had become the stuff of legend and was buried in Westminster Abbey by order of King Charles I. BBC Radio Shropshire’s Mark Elliott explores the man, the myth, that was ‘Old’ Tom Parr.

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