At Staunton, January 2, 1816, there died Samuel Sugars, Gent.,
who weighed with a single wood coffin 50 stone (700 pounds).
Jacob Powell died in 1764, weighing 660 pounds. It took 16 men to
carry him to his grave. Mr. Baker of Worcester, supposed to be
larger than Bright, was interred in a coffin that was larger than
an ordinary hearse. In 1797 there was buried Philip Hayes, a
professor of music, who was as heavy as Bright (616 pounds).
Mr. Spooner, an eminent farmer of Warwickshire, who died in 1775,
aged fifty-seven, weighed 569 pounds and measured over 4 feet
across the shoulders. The two brothers Stoneclift of Halifax,
Yorkshire, together weighed 980 pounds.
Keysler in his travels speaks of a corpulent Englishman who in
passing through Savoy had to use 12 chairmen; he says that the
man weighed 550 pounds. It is recorded on the tombstone of James
Parsons, a fat man of Teddington, who died March 7, 1743, that he
had often eaten a whole shoulder of mutton and a peck of hasty
pudding. Keysler mentions a young Englishman living in Lincoln
who was accustomed to eat 18 pounds of meat daily. He died in
1724 at the age of twenty-eight, weighing 530 pounds. In 1815
there died in Trenaw, in Cornwall, a person known as "Giant
Chillcot.
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