Edmund Mallone was said to have measured 7 feet 7 inches.
Wierski, a Polander, presented to Maximilian II, was 8 feet high.
At the age of thirty-two there died in 1798 a clerk of the Bank
of England who was said to have been nearly 7 1/2 feet high. The
Daily Advertiser for February 23, 1745, says that there was a
young colossus exhibited opposite the Mansion House in London who
was 7 feet high, although but fifteen years old. In the same
paper on January 31, 1753, is an account of MacGrath, whose
skeleton is still preserved in Dublin. In the reign of George I,
during the time of the Bartholomew Fair at Smithfield, there was
exhibited an English man seventeen years old who was 8 feet tall.
Nicephorus tells of Antonius of Syria, in the reign of
Theodosius, who died at the age of twenty-five with a height of 7
feet 7 inches. Artacaecas, in great favor with Xerxes, was the
tallest Persian and measured 7 feet. John Middleton, born in 1752
at Hale, Lancashire, humorously called the "Child of Hale," and
whose portrait is in Brasenose College, Oxford, measured 9 feet 3
inches tall. In his "History of Ripton," in Devonshire, 1854,
Bigsby gives an account of a discovery in 1687 of a skeleton 9
feet long.
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