On 15 November 1635, Thomas Parr was laid to rest at a grave in old Westminster Abbey.
Portrait of Thomas Parr by John Conde, circa 1793.
Tarr remained a bachelor until the age of 80 when he married his first wife, Jane Taylor.
Together they had two children but they died in infancy.
At that time, Parr was 105 years old.
Ten years after his first wifes death, Parr married a second time.
Parr was then 122 years old.
By then, Parrs fame had spread the length and breadth of England.
The well-meaning Earl of Arundel took Parr to London to meet King Charles I.
Old Tom Parr became an overnight celebrity among the nobles in London.
Harvey concluded that Parr died of suffocation brought on by pneumonia.
William Harvey dissecting the body of Thomas Parr.
InHuman Longevity, published in 1837, author W.J.
Thoms reasoned that some documentary trace of the mans existence should be found if the legends are true.
Yet, Thoms found no birth register, or baptismal register documents to establish the date of birth.
Many modern historians believe that Tom Parr was less than one hundred years old when he died.
Nevertheless, Parrs legend has been etched in stone at Westminster Abbey, where his gravestone could be found.
HE LIVED IN YE REIGNES OF TENPRINCES VIZ: K.ED.4.
AGED 152 YEARS.& WAS BURYED HERE NOVEMB.
There is also a brand of Scotch in his name, and a place called Old Parr in Britain.
