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12 volume diary. [24] Jean Lucey Pratt: 1 million: 61 years: 1925–1986: Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell; she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and ...
He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world's longest diary, until the journals of Robert Shields of Dayton, Washington, with 37.5 million words and crammed with minutes of daily living, were revealed in 1994. [2] Ellis authored books on the Great Depression and New York City, as well as a study of suicide.
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
These and many more superlatives are in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records, which for 2024's edition has taken our watery world as its theme. That means there's extra entries for ...
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Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Achey Loftus CBE OBE TD (January 1884 − 7 July 1987) was a British soldier, teacher and diarist. He is noted as the world’s most durable diarist, [1] having kept a detailed journal, with brief periods of omission, over 91 years, from 1896 to 1987.
Yesterday (Sunday, January 5), Rüdiger Koch set a new world record for the longest continuous stay below the water in an underwater room.The aerospace engineer spent 101 days under the Caribbean ...
Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (diary 1844–1845) Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English civil servant (diary 1660–1669) Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), English peeress; Calel Perechodnik (1916–1944), Polish Jewish ghetto policeman and Holocaust victim; Diane Pernet (living), Paris-based American ...