Arthur Whitlock; Believed to Be Oldest Man in Britain at 108

Arthur Whitlock, 108, who was born during the reign of Queen Victoria and was believed to be Britain’s oldest man. In an interview with the BBC last year, he vividly recalled paraffin lamps in his childhood home, the first appearance of cars in London and his posting as a horseman with the field artillery during World War I. He said that before that war “people were more contented in a way.” A civil servant until his retirement in 1956, Whitlock observed in the interview: “The loss of stability that came during both world wars led to a loss of morality. It was a case of get what you can on the side--where you never thought of that sort of thing in the early days.” On Tuesday in London.