24 DECEMBER 1898, Page 3

The Times of Tuesday records the death of Mr. Thomas

Young, of Watford, who had reached the great age of a hundred and sir. A correspondent reports that at the age of a hundred and three he was capable of recalling the battle of Trafalgar, and of relating how "we [i.e., the blue-coat boys] lit up fireworks for the victory, and then drank a small glass of sherry for Lord Nelson in solemn silence." As a draper's assistant he saw the Watson Riots in 1814.