John Mosely Turner

John Mosely Turner (15 June 1856 – 21 March 1968) was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years.

Born in Mitcham, Turner was a former silk print cutter, and teetotaller.[2] Turner died at his home in Tottenham at age 111 years 280 days. He had been blind since the age of 73.[3] Turner was first listed in the 1964 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as Britain's oldest man, and was in fact the oldest man in the world. He surpassed the age of Geert Adriaans Boomgaard and Demetrius Philipovitch in 1966, and the now disputed case of James Henry Brett, Jr. in 1968, to become the then oldest man ever, unless Thomas Peters is considered validated. Turner's record was allegedly broken by Shigechiyo Izumi in 1977, but his case is disputed,so Mathew Beard is considered to have surpassed him in 1982 for the oldest man ever title.