113 year-old's secret: 'Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women'

[steven johnson]

I knew it! Pass me another martini!

Having spent 113 years and 14 days on this earth, Henry Allingham is used to breaking records.
He is one of three British men still alive who actively served in the First World War, is the last surviving founder of the Royal Air Force, has long held the record for being the oldest man in Europe and earlier this year he became Britain's most ancient man ever after overtaking John Evans, a Welsh former coal miner who died in 1990 aged 112 years and 295 days.
But when Mr Allingham woke up yesterday morning at St Dunstan's care home for blind ex-service personnel, in Ovingdean, near Brighton, the supercentenarian was informed that he had suddenly achieved the highest age-related accolade for men.
Allingham was born on 6 June 1896 in Clacton, east London, and his father died when he was a baby. One-hundred-and-thirteen years later his dynasty includes six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild.



'Cigarettes, whisky, and wild, wild women'
Henry Allingham, now the world's oldest man, on the secret of a long life>

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[Forkboy]

2. I bet he wasted the rest of his money.