John Alfred Tinniswood, who was born in 1912 in Liverpool, acquired the title after Japan’s Gisaburo Sonobe, 112, died in March
John Tinniswood said he has fish and chips every Friday, saying: ‘I eat what they give me … I don’t have a special diet’.John Tinniswood said he has fish and chips every Friday, saying: ‘I eat what they give me … I don’t have a special diet’.An 111-year-old man from England is now the world’s oldest living man and says the only diet he follows is eating fish and chips every Friday.
Tinniswood, who is a great-grandfather, was born in Liverpool and now lives in a care home in Southport. Having become the UK’s oldest man in 2020, Tinniswood is unfazed by his newfound status as the oldest man in the world.Since turning 100 in 2012, he received a birthday card each year from the late Queen Elizabeth, who was his junior by almost 14 years.
He lived through both world wars and is the world’s oldest surviving male veteran of the second world war, as he worked in an administrative role for the Army Pay Corps. When asked how the world around him has changed throughout his life, Tinniswood said: “The world, in its way, is always changing.
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