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<p>Matthew Greathead of Richmond, Yorkshire. 100 years old.
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Matthew Greathead (1770-1871).  A carpenter born in High Coniscliffe, County Durham, England, he became the oldest known Freemason in the world of his time. He lived to 101 years, 8 months.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55234307" class="extiw" title="d:Q55234307"><span title="British engraver">Thomas Dewell Scott</span></a>
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First upload: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greathead.org/greathead2-o/p147.htm">greathead.org</a>. Second upload: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001578/18700611/040/0012">"Matthew Greathead of Richmond, Yorkshire, a hundred years old". <i>The Illustrated London News</i>, 11 June 1870, p.608</a> via British Newspaper archive (screenshot)