Daniel Lambert by cfulton

Photography • Monochrome/Black and White • posted on Jun 13, 2012

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In June 1809, he died suddenly in Stamford. At the time of his death, he weighed 52 stone 11 lb (739 lb; 335 kg), and his coffin required 112 square feet (10.4 m2) of wood. Despite the coffin being built with wheels to allow easy transport, and a sloping approach being dug to the grave, it took 20 men almost half an hour to drag his casket into the trench, in a newly opened burial ground to the rear of St Martin's Church. While others have since overtaken Daniel Lambert's record as the heaviest person in history, he remains a popular character in Leicester, and in 2009 was described by the Leicester Mercury as "one of the city's most cherished icons". Lambert's friends paid for a large gravestone, inscribed: In Remembrance of that Prodigy in Nature. DANIEL LAMBERT. a Native of Leicester: who was possessed of an exalted and convivial Mind and in personal Greatness had no Competitor He measured three Feet one Inch round the Leg nine Feet four Inches round the Body and weighed Fifty two Stone eleven Pounds! He departed this Life on the 21st of June 1809 Aged 39 years As a Testimony of Respect this Stone is erected by his Friends in Leicester. ~ extracted from Wikipedia - interesting reading ~ This was one of the few gravestones kept clear of lichen. Clive

Comments (10)

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debbielove

6:57AM | Wed, 13 June 2012

Ah yes! Famous man here.. I WOULD have shown you his clothes BUT our wonderful Council decided to close the Town Museum! (Not cut their bonuses...NO!)So, I couldn't.. But I do have a picture somewhere.. This is a fine picture, nice postwork mate! Rob

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Rainastorm

7:31AM | Wed, 13 June 2012

Very odd, as i was looking at your gravestones yesterday I was wondering if you had got this one...now its here! lol I wish you could have see his clothes...we got lucky and got into the Museum JUST in time!

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