Background
Ralph Tarrant was born in Nottingham in 1903.
Ralph Tarrant was born in Nottingham in 1903.
He moved to Sheffield at the age of seven and left school when he was 13 in order to work. He initially worked at a local steelworks as an office boy, then worked as a steel inspector, and was a corporal in the Royal Air Force during World World War World War II He was then an insurance salesman for Refuge Assurance until his retirement in 1968. He said that the secret to his long life "is to enjoy vices as well as much as virtues" and to "stay active and stay interested".