Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Parr

Old Parr. Thomas Parr lived in the reigns of ten sovereigns; married a second wife when he was 120 years old, and had a child by her. He was a husbandman, born at Salop in 1483, and died 1635, aged 152 years. Mr. Thoms, in his Records of Longevity, denies the truth of Parr's great age.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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