Thomas Wedders, also known as Thomas Wadhouse, born in Yorkshire, England, circa 1730, was a performer in various circus sideshows in the mid-18th century. He is chiefly known for having the world's longest nose, allegedly measuring 7.8 inches (20 cm) long.[1]
"Thus, if noses were ever uniformly exact in representing the importance of the individual, this worthy ought to have amassed all the money in Thread needle Street and conquered all Europe, for this prodigious nose of his was a compound of the acquisitive and the martial. But either his chin was too weak or his brow too low, or Nature had so exhausted herself in the task of giving this prodigy a nose as to altogether forget to endow him with brains; or perhaps the nose crowded out this latter commodity. At all events, we are told this Yorkshireman expired, nose and all, as he had lived, in a condition of mind best described as the most abject idiocy."
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^"For What It's Worth". Futility Closet. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
^Hanks, Mark (30 April 2012). Usefully Useless: Everything you'd Never Learn at School (But May Like to Know). Random House. p. 259. ISBN9781407074238.
^O'Dell, Stackpool E. (1896). "Character in Noses". The Strand Magazine. Vol. 11. p. 82. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
^"The Strand Magazine, Vol. XI, elaborated on Gould and Pyle's narrative". www.shutterbulky.com. 14 November 2022.
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