article_snippet.sent: us were both pushing a buggy with a tiny baby inside: me, my son Ben, now four, who was born when I was 73; Peter, Peter daughter Rosabella, who arrived when Peter was 72.
article_snippet.sent: Donald Trelford (left) had Ben (back right) when Donald Trelford was 73 and Donald Trelford daughter Poppy (held by Donald) when Donald Trelford was 76-years-old .
article_snippet.sent: Since then Claire, 52, and I have had a second child, Poppy, while it has just been announced that 74-year-old Peter and Bella are expecting a sibling for 74-year-old Peter and Bella 20-month-old daughter.
article_snippet.sent: I was 76 when Poppy came along last May, making me, I believe, the oldest living British new father.
article_snippet.sent: my son Paul — is 44; this is my son Ben —
article_snippet.sent: my son Paul — is two.
article_snippet.sent: A curious family oddity is that my father was born in 1911 and Ben in 2011; my mother was born in 1914 and Poppy in 2014.
article_snippet.sent: We called my wife before realising how appropriate a name it was for someone born on the centenary of World War I.
highlights_snippet.sent: Donald Trelford became a father for the sixth time aged 76 .
  