Real Lives: the long life of Old Tom Parr
Historian feature
By Dexter Plato, published 14th November 2025
King Charles and the 152-year-old husbandman
In this article, Dexter Plato tells us about the real, or perhaps not so real, life of Old Tom Parr, who was supposedly born during the Wars of the Roses and died during a visit to the court of Charles I.
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