Born the year the Titanic sank, the world's oldest man dies

The oldest man in the world has died at the age of 112. It is about the British John Alfred Tinniswood, born in 1912, the year the Titanic sank. He died at a nursing home in the English town of Southport, north of Liverpool, "surrounded by music and love", his family said.

John had become Britain's oldest man and entered the Guinness Book of World Records in April this year following the death at the age of 114 of Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez Mora.

Tinniswood served in the Second World War in the Royal Army Pays Corps and in 1942 married his wife Blodwen, with whom he had an only daughter, Susan, born the following year. After the war he worked for Royal Mail and then as an accountant for oil giants Shell and BP, before retiring in 1972. His wife died of cancer in 1986, after 44 years of marriage.

In his long retirement, Tinniswood devoted himself to volunteering at a church, Blundellsandsm United Reformed Church, and was a huge Liverpool fan. In an interview with the BBC a few years ago he said he had been "quite active as a young man" and had "walked a lot", but that he didn't quite understand where his record longevity came from.

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