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[The Tallest Man]

Just added this article to Wadlow's page. Does anybody have any ideas who this 7'9" Korean priest (1937) might be?

I found the answer to my own question, although my first thought was that it was a fake name. It's from a pay-per-view article, so I only have the first paragraph.

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The Tallest Man

[GROSMONT]

A fake name? You ain't seen nothin' yet! There was once a Korean diplomat named Lee Bum Suk, and there is currently a classical cellist called Dong Suk Kang.

[ghbearman]

making fun of people's foreign (to us) names just because they sound funny (to us) is hardly enlightening. I assume you mean Lee Beom-seok (or Yi Pomsok, depends on which transliteration system you use); and Dong-Suk Kang is a violinist, not a cellist.

[Never Wrong]

Another pic of Conrad Furrows. If that door is standard height (no guarantee of that in a hospital) - he's about 7'2" -7'3"

Lucked into this picture - was searching for Erhard Weller- no search for Furrows will pull up this pic. Fortunately, the nurse's name he's standing next to is Weller.

I gotta say - in that new pic/article of Furrows - he looks the 7'8. But he sure doesn't in that earlier photo.

Earlier photo:


Later photo:


I have to say that this Furrows Fella is the tallest Western guy I'd never heard of until 2-3 months ago. Odd that.

[GROSMONT]

bearman, I'm not making fun of the names themselves, or their owners. My name may well mean "Walrus Dung" in Inuit, and if so I don't mind at all if an Inuit gets a laugh out of it. Apologies for calling the Korean gentleman a cellist; I don't like making mistakes about classical music.

[Never Wrong]

bearman, I'm not making fun of the names themselves, or their owners. My name may well mean "Walrus Dung" in Inuit, and if so I don't mind at all if an Inuit gets a laugh out of it. Apologies for calling the Korean gentleman a cellist; I don't like making mistakes about classical music.

Yeah - I'm pretty sure your screen name is some contraction of Great Mountain - which is a ironic as you are pretty sure that everyone and everything is 7'0" or below.

[GROSMONT]

I'm not one of those sad people who makes up names to match the personality they wish they had. Grosmont is a village in Monmouthshire, with a ruined castle, which I once visited, which is why it came to mind. Of course the name did originally mean "big hill" but that wasn't in my mind. Honest!

[The Tallest Man]

I'm not one of those sad people who makes up names to match the personality they wish they had.

Hey, wait a minute! ....Ooh well.

The Tallest Man

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I live less than an hour away from Grosmont Castle

[Boxerwhiteray]

Grosmont
For most of the 60s Chris Greener was Britain and Englands tallest man. George Gracie was Scotlands tallest man and Jim Cully was Irelands tallest man. But there was no current listing for the tallest man in Wales in Guinness. Someone would have to be. Even if there were no 7
footers alive in Wales - surely some guy would have to be close to 7 ft. I did hear of a woman living in North Wales who was 6 ft 10 - but never found out her identity.

[GROSMONT]

Whoops, when I made that crack about names people choose, it never struck me it might sound like a dig at you! It wasn't.
I have a theory about Netherlanders, that they are attracted to the novelty of hilly or mountainous areas. By the way, in a park in Hereford, where I was brought up, there is an ancient mortar with the lovely name Roaring Meg, which was, I believe, used against Grosmont castle during a siege.
Histories of giants mention a woman living about 1500, called Long Meg or Westminster Meg who, some think, was really not a person but a cannon.