The journey to London, together with
the excitement and change of mode of living, undoubtedly hastened
his death, which occurred in less than a year. He was one hundred
and fifty-two years and nine months old, and had lived under nine
Kings of England. Harvey examined his body and at the necropsy
his internal organs were found in a most perfect state. His
cartilages were not even ossified, as is the case generally with
the very aged. The slightest cause of death could not be
discovered, and the general impression was that he died from
being over-fed and too-well treated in London. His great-grandson
was said to have died in this century in Cork at the age of one
hundred and three. Parr is celebrated by a monument reared to his
memory in Westminster Abbey.
The author of the Dutch dictionary entitled "Het algemen
historish Vanderbok" says that there was a peasant in Hungary
named Jean Korin who was one hundred and seventy-two and his wife
was one hundred and sixty-four; they had lived together one
hundred and forty-eight years, and had a son at the time of their
death who was one hundred and sixteen.
Setrasch Czarten, or, as he is called by Baily, Petratsh Zartan,
was also born in Hungary at a village four miles from Teneswaer
in 1537.
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