- Robert Weighton (March 29, 1908) has been crowned the world’s oldest man (112) by Guinness.
- Born in Yorkshire, Weighton was one of seven children and undertook a marine engineering apprenticeship at 16.
- After working as a missionary school teacher (Taiwan), he got married in 1937 and relocated back to the UK.
- During WWII, he moved to the US and worked in a plane factory to support the UK’s war efforts.
- Weighton later went on to teach at London’s City University.
- Weighton described himself as “an ordinary bloke who just happened to live for a long time”.
