Blitz Bureau
JOHN Tinniswood, an Englishman born the same year the Titanic sank and who survived two world wars and two global pandemics, has died aged 112, Guinness World Records has said, months after it recognised him as the world’s oldest man, according to Reuters Tinniswood passed away on November 25 at a care home in Southport, his family told Guinness World Records in a statement.
Born in August 1912 in Liverpool, he went on to meet his wife Blodwen at a dance before marrying her in 1942, at the height of World War II when he served in the Royal Army Pay Corps, which was responsible for finances and food supplies.
Tinniswood is survived by a daughter, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife died in 1986. From the age of 100 to 110 he received a birthday card each year from the late Queen Elizabeth, who was 14 years his junior. She died in 2022.
