Henry Allingham

Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, the oldest British man ever, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world. He is also the secondoldest military veteran ever, and at the time of his death, he was the 12thverified oldest man of all time.

Allingham was born in 1896 in Clapton, County of London. When he wasmonths old, his father, Henry Thomas Allingham , died at ageof tuberculosis. Henry is recorded in the 1901 census with his widowed mother Amy Jane Allingham , a laundress forewoman, living with her parents and brother atVerulam Avenue, Walthamstow. His mother remarried in 1905 to Hubert George Higgs and in 1907 the family moved to Clapham, London. Henry and his mother are recorded in the 1911 Census living atHeyford Avenue, Lambeth, while his stepfather was lodging away from home working as a wheelwright. Henry attended a London County Council school before attending the Regent Street Polytechnic. Allingham remembered seeing the City Imperial Volunteers return from the Second Boer War, and also recalled watching W. G. Grace play cricket. On leaving school, Allingham started work as a trainee surgical instrument maker at St. Bartholomews Hospital. He did not find this job very interesting, and so left t

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