Briton and world's oldest living man turns 112 insisting: 'I don't feel that age'
The world's oldest living man, born just months after the Titanic sank, has revealed the secret to his extraordinary longevity.
The world’s oldest living man turns 112 today as he puts down the secret to his phenomenal longevity as being “just luck”.
John Tinniswood, from Southport, Merseyside, was born in 1912, just months after the sinking of the Titanic and two years before the start of the First World War.
Asked how he feels, Mr Tinniswood told the Guiness World Records (GWR): "In all honesty, no different.
"I don't feel that age, I don't get excited over it. That's probably why I've reached it.
"I just take it in my stride like anything else, why I've lived that long I have no idea at all.
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"I can't think of any special secrets I have. I was quite active as a youngster, I did a lot of walking.
“Whether that had something to do with it, I don't know. But to me, I'm no different [to anyone]. No different at all.”
Mr Tinniswood, who has lived under 23 different Prime Ministers, says that the world is in no better place now than it was 112 years ago.
He said: "It's no better in my opinion, or hardly any better, than it was then. Probably in some places it is, but in other places it's worse."
Having served in World War 2 in an administrative role for the Army Pay Corps, Mr Tinniswood was responsible for accounts and auditing, as well as tracking stranded soldiers and organising logistical supplies.
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He went on to work for oil giants Shell and BP before retiring in 1972.
Mr Tinniswood met his wife Blodwen at a dance in Liverpool, and the pair were married for 44 years before her death in 1986. Their daughter Susan was born in 1943.
Since his 100th birthday in 2012, Mr Tinniswood would receive a birthday card from her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, born 14 years after him, before her passing in 2022.
The oldest woman in the world is 116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka after Maria Branyas of Spain died at the age of 117 last week.
