Old Tom Parr
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Thomas Parr, popularly known as "Old Parr", was an Englishman who was said to have lived for 152 years. A portrait of Parr hangs at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, with an inscription which reads "
Parr c.1635
Old Parr's Cottage at Winnington, Shropshire
William Harvey, who carried out the autopsy on Thomas Parr
Edward IV
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Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until he died in 1483. A member of the House of York, he was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses,
Old Tom Parr
…days" "The old very old man or Thomas Parr, son of John Parr of Winnington in the Parish of Alberbury who was born in the year 1483 in the reign of King Edward IV being 152 years old in the year 1635." The portrait was once in the collection of the Leighton family of Loton Park, which is in Alberbury. Records…
Portrait, c. 1520, from original made c. 1470–1475
Drawing of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, the father of Edward IV and Richard III, c. 1445
Towton Cross, commemorating Edward's victory at the Battle of Towton
Rose Noble coin of Edward IV, minted in 1464