World’s oldest man dies in England aged 112

LONDON: British John Tinniswood, who was born the year the Titanic sank and survived two world wars and two global pandemics, has died at the age of 112, Guinness World Records said on Tuesday, months after it recognized him as the world’s oldest man.

Tinniswood passed away on Monday in a care home in Southport, north-west England, surrounded by “music and love”, his family said in a statement to Guinness World Records.

“John had many good qualities. He was intelligent, determined, brave, calm in any crisis, talented in mathematics and a very good speaker,” his family said.

Born in Liverpool in August 1912, he met his wife Blodwen at a dance and in 1942, during World War II. She married him at the height of World War II, while he was serving in the Royal Army Pay Corps, which was responsible for finances and food supplies.

Tinniswood, who is survived by a daughter, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, later worked as an accountant in the oil industry before retiring at the age of 60. His wife died in 1986.