article_snippet: ft 6ins tall before surgical intervention stopped Britain's former tallest man growing.
article_snippet: Britain's former tallest man held the record as Britain's tallest man for four decades.
article_snippet: Christopher Greener held the title of Britain's tallest man for four decades and is pictured  in 1996 outside the Market Weighton house once owned by Yorkshire's 7ft 9ins Giant William Bradley and later by Sylvia France (left)
article_snippet: Christopher Greener lost Christopher Greener title as Great Britain's tallest man in 2007.
article_snippet: Christopher Greener lost Christopher Greener title of Britain's tallest man when Christopher Greener was replaced in 2007 by Neil Fingleton, who measures 7ft 7.56ins tall.
article_snippet: Neither however beat the record of William Bradley, who at 7ft 9ins tall, was known as the Yorkshire Giant until his death in 1820.
article_snippet: Last year Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world's tallest man at an estimated 8ft 5in tall, was carried to a graveyard on the back of an open truck because the world's tallest man remains were too large for a hearse.
article_snippet: Throughout the world's tallest man life Mr Stadnyk, of Ukraine, had been refused to be measured to determine the world's tallest man height because the world's tallest man said it would be humiliating.
article_snippet: Among the activities Mr Greener was able to take part in was basketball where the world's tallest man shone on the court .
article_snippet: Left, Mr Greener towers over the world's tallest man father who is stood on the front step of their home in a photograph taken in the 1960s.
highlights_snippet: Christopher Greener previously held the record as Britain's tallest man .
  