He was 5
feet 5 inches tall and the same in circumference. William
Campbell, the landlord of the Duke of Wellington in
Newcastle-on-Tyne, was 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 728
pounds. He measured 96 inches around the shoulders, 85 inches
around the waist, and 35 inches around the calf. He was born at
Glasgow in 1856, and was not quite twenty-two when last measured.
To illustrate the rate of augmentation, he weighed 4 stone at
nine months and at ten years 18 stone. He was one of a family of
seven children. His appetite was not more than the average, and
he was moderate as regards the use of liquors, but a great smoker
Notwithstanding his corpulency, he was intelligent and affable.
Miss Conley, a member of an American traveling circus, who
weighed 479 pounds, was smothered in bed by rolling over on her
face; she was unable to turn on her back without assistance.
There was a girl who died at Plaisance near Paris in 1890 who
weighed 470 pounds or more. In 1889 an impresario undertook to
exhibit her; but eight men could not move her from her room, and
as she could not pass through the door the idea was abandoned.
There was a colored woman who died near Baltimore who weighed 850
pounds, exceeding the great Daniel Lambert by 120 pounds.
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