21 DECEMBER 1951, Page 18

Time Spans •

Silt,—Referring to Mr. Pardey's record in your issue of December 7th,

I am able to claim an even longer record. My grandfather (who was baptised and married at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, and was churchwarden 1829-30 and was also chief burgess of Westminster 1848, 1852, 1862) was born in 1792 and died in 1871. I was born in 1860 and remember him very well indeed—a span of 159 years.