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A VERY LONG LIFE.

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Timothy the tortoise was about 160 years old when he died at his home near Exeter in November 2005. Timothy, whose early life was spent at sea, was thought to be the oldest resident in Britain at the time. He was found by a British naval officer, Captain John Courtenay Everard, on a Portuguese ship in 1854. Everard, who was a relative of the Earl of Devon, adopted him and he became the mascot on a succession of British ships for nearly forty years. In 1892 he went to live at Powderham Castle, which is the historic home of the Earls of Devon, and in 1935 he was given a permanent home in the castle’s rose garden. Throughout his long life, Timothy showed a keen instinct for survival. During the second world war, for example, he felt the vibrations from the bombs that the Germans were dropping on Exeter and made his own air-raid shelter under some steps. He was also very healthy, never needing to see a vet until th

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