世界最高齢の男性が死去、１１２歳

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】ギネス世界記録が存命中の世界最高齢の男性と認定していた英国人男性が28日朝、がんで死去した。112歳。家族が同日、明らかにした。（写真は資料写真）
　家族によると、教師やエンジニアなどの職に就いていたボブ・ウェイトンさんは、自宅で眠ったまま「安らかに」息を引き取ったという。
　家族は、ウェイトンさんが「最期まで」機知に富み、優しく聡明（そうめい）で話好きだったことをありがたく思うと述べた。
　ウェイトンさんは今年２月、日本の渡辺智哲さんの死去を受けて、存命中の世界最高齢の男性となった。
　１９０８年３月２９日にイングランド北部のヨークシャーで生まれ、７人きょうだいの一人だった。子ども３人と孫１０人、ひ孫２５人に恵まれた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/05/29-12:47）

The world's oldest man, according to the Guinness World Records, has died from cancer in Britain at the age of 112, his family confirmed on Thursday.
Bob Weighton, a former teacher and engineer from the central English county Hampshire, died peacefully in his sleep at home on Thursday morning, they said.
Weighton took up the title of the oldest man in the world in February after the death of the previous holder, Chitetsu Watanabe of Japan.
With great sadness, the Weighton family announces the death of our beloved Bob Weighton, relatives said in a statement to Britain's domestic Press Association newswire.
A role model to us all, he lived his life interested in and engaged with all kinds of people from across the world.
He had many, many friendships and read and talked politics, theology, ecology and more, right up until his death.
He also cared greatly for the environment.
The family said they were grateful that Weighton had remained witty, kind, knowledgeable and a conversationalist until the very end.
Weighton was born in Yorkshire in northern England on March 29, 1908 and was one of seven children.
He is survived by his three children, 10 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
He was recognised as the oldest man in the world after Guinness World Records' senior gerontology consultant, Robert Young, scrutinised the evidence of his birth following Watanabe's death earlier this year.
South African Fredie Blom claims to have celebrated his 116th birthday this month, but his age has not yet been verified by the records body.