A CENTENARIAN DOCTOR.
Tile council of the Royal College of Surgeons, on January 13, sent a congratulatory letter to Dr. Edgar Jones; of Great Burstead, near Brentwood, on attaining his one hundredth birthday. If was announced that the King had already .sent a letter to the aged doctor congratulating him on the happy event. Dr Jones qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1834, and' is its oldest member. In the same year he also became a licentiate in. the Society of Apothecaries. He then resided at Brislington, near Bristol, but a few years later lie went to Saniou Walden, and lias resided in Essex evei since. He has been a magistrate for that county for upwards of fifty years, and, until a few years ago, regularly! attended the sittings of the bench. I Ho is in excellent health for his years, | his appetite is good, and he can readl without the aid of glasses. He is said! to have always been a non-smoker and! an abstainer from alcohol. He used tol hunt and play cricket a gcod deal, and! when over .sixty ho climbed Snowden from Lanberis. He played tennis when over-eighty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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197A CENTENARIAN DOCTOR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)
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