[60]. Ibid.
[61]. Selections Gent. Mag. vol. iv. p. 299.
[62]. See Choice Notes (History), pp. 170-177; and Military Centenarians, Notes and Queries, 2d series, No. 232, pp. 238, 239, for several well-authenticated records.
[63]. Morning Advertiser.
[64]. Notes and Queries, 2d series, No. 250.
Great Ages
To return to Longevity. The following additional instances are mostly of our own time:
Among Lawyers, Francis Maseres, fifty years Cursitor-Baron of the Court of Exchequer, died 1824, at the age of 93: he was a ripe classical scholar, and one of the ablest mathematicians of his day. The Eldon family present three noteworthy examples: Mr. Scott, the Newcastle merchant, father of Lord Stowell and the Earl of Eldon, died 1800, at the age of 92: the two eminent sons, Stowell, 1836, at 91, and Eldon, 1838, at 87. Lord Plunket, the statesman and lawyer, who died 1854, had reached 90. Lord Chancellor Campbell, who in his busy law-life wrote many volumes of biography, attained the age of 81.
Sir William Blizard, the Surgeon, who died in 1835, in his 94th year, rose to eminence under many disadvantages. With all his activity and industry, except a fever caught by working night and day in the dissecting-room, his health never failed him till the last; he was temperate; and the only wine he drank was Cape. Sir William Burnett, the physician and scientific inventor, reached 82.