Old Tom Parr
Thomas Parr (* supposedly in February 1483 in Winnington in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, † November 14, 1635 ), called Old Parr or Old Tom Parr, was an Englishman who was allegedly 152 years and nine months old.
Life
Thomas Parr was, like his father, John Parr farm workers. He became famous for his " ripe old age " of 152 years. He says that he was born in 1483 and was in his home Winnington at Wollaston in Shropshire (then parish Alberbury, District of Sallop, today Darwin Country ), 16 km west of Shrewsbury, near the Welsh border already a local celebrity when he 1635 of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel "discovered" and was brought to London for the amusement of the English royal court. But he could only remember a few events in his long life. Nevertheless, he attracted curious crowds, and Cornelius van Dalen made a portrait of the old man on, which is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Just six weeks after his arrival in London died Parr; According to the autopsy report of the physician William Harvey his rich food, the wines and heavy pollution in the city were not getting. His organs were in such good condition, that if we continued with his usual fare, he still could have lived. King Charles I was Parr in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey and buried erect a grave stone on which is written, that Parr ten kings was subject in his life:
THO: PARR OF YE COUNTY OF SALLOP. BORNE IN AD: 1483 HE LIVED IN YE REIGNES OF TEN. PRINCES VIZ: K.ED.4. K.ED.5.K.RICH.3. K.HEN.7.K.HEN.8.K.EDW.6.Q.MA.Q.ELIZ K.JA. & K. CHARLES. AGED 152 yeares. & WHAT buryed Novemb HERE. 15 1635th
To German:
THO. PARR FROM THE COUNTY SALLOP. BORN A.D. 1483rd HE LIVED UNDER THE REIGN OF TEN PRINCE WITH: K.ED.IV. K.ED.V. K.RICH.III. K.HEIN.VII. K.HEIN.VIII. K.ED. VI. KGN. MA. KGN. ELIS. K. YES. & K. KARL. ACHIEVED 152 YEARS. & WAS BURIED HERE ON 15 Novemb. 1635th
Nationally, he was known as the poet John Taylor in 1635 a kind of biography Parrs entitled The Olde, Olde, Very Olde Man published; subsequently Parr went down in the English folklore and became the epitome of Merrie England ( Merry England - the merry England, the "good old days "). Taylor's report, Parr was born in 1483, his long life he led back to a vegetarian diet and discipline of life. Parr married is therefore only at the age of 88 (80 ) years, had two children and at the age of 100 years, a brief extramarital affair with child row, but for which he did Abbuße. After the death of his first wife, 1603 (1595) he married at the age of 122 years ( 1605 ) again. In 1635 he met the painter and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens, who made sketches of him. The English painter John Conde and George Powle (2nd half of the 18th century ) made several drawings by Rubens ' templates. Even his house in Winnington still exists.
Thomas Parr was dissected shortly after his death by William Harvey; the report was published as an appendix of the book De natura et ortu sanguinis ( On the Origin and Nature of the blood) by John Betts 1669. The findings can be rather suggests that Parr has not even reached 70 years. A great-granddaughter of Thomas Parr said to have become in Corke 103 years old.
Others
A brand of whiskey from Scotland since 1909 bears its name: Grand Old Parr with a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens.