Thomas Wedders, also known as Thomas Wadhouse, born in Yorkshire, England, c. 1730, was a performer in various circus sideshows in the mid-18th century. He is chiefly known for having the world's longest nose, allegedly measuring 20 cm (7.8 inches) long.[1]
Thomas Wedders | |
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 Thomas Wedders as seen in The Strand Magazine in 1896 | |
| Born | Thomas Wedders c. 1730 Yorkshire, England |
| Died | c. 1780 (age 50–52) |
| Occupation | Circus entertainer |
| Known for | World's longest nose |
Beyond his large nose, little is known about Wedders' life.[2][3]
Guinness World Records is unable to verify the length of Wedders' nose as he died before the invention of the camera. A wax reproduction of his head is in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in London.[4]
In 1896, The Strand Magazine elaborated:[5]
Thus, if noses were ever uniformly exact in representing the importance of the individual, this worthy ought to have amassed all the money in Thread needle Street and conquered all Europe, for this prodigious nose of his was a compound of the acquisitive and the martial. But either his chin was too weak or his brow too low, or Nature had so exhausted herself in the task of giving this prodigy a nose as to altogether forget to endow him with brains; or perhaps the nose crowded out this latter commodity. At all events, we are told this Yorkshireman expired, nose and all, as he had lived, in a condition of mind best described as the most abject idiocy.
References
edit- ^ "For What It's Worth". Futility Closet. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ Hanks, Mark (30 April 2012). Usefully Useless: Everything you'd Never Learn at School (But May Like to Know). Random House. p. 259. ISBN 9781407074238.
- ^ O'Dell, Stackpool E. (1896). "Character in Noses". The Strand Magazine. Vol. 11. p. 82. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
- ^ Atwal, Sanj (25 October 2023). "Englishman's 7.5-inch nose was the longest ever recorded". guinnessworldrecords.com. Guinness World Records. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "The Strand Magazine, Vol. XI, elaborated on Gould and Pyle's narrative". shutterbulky.com. 14 November 2022.
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