Background
Dean was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, on 4 November 1902.
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Dean was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, on 4 November 1902.
Dean was the oldest living man in the United Kingdom. Dean was ordained as a minister in the 1920s. He worked as an assistant chaplain in Singapore in the 1930s.
He served as an army chaplain in Burma and India during World World War World War II Dean supported Fair trade and he helped create Traid Links, in Wirksworth.
Dean was married three times. Anne is still alive today and later remarried.
Dean had a son named Christopher, born in either 1949 or 1950. He also had two grandchildren.
Christopher Dean leads the Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
Dean was a vegetarian for thirty years. He attributed his vegetarianism, in addition to being lazy, having good friends and a religion, and looking for the best in people, as the secret to his longevity. Dean lived independently until 2007/2008, when he moved into a flat in Derbyshire.
He also mentioned just before his 110th birthday that when he lived in Mumbai just before World War I, a doctor gave him a mysterious brown elixir ("this muddy mixture", as Dean called it) and told him that "if drink this will live forever" or that if he would "drink this live until at least 100".
On every birthday since his 100th, Dean began wearing a flower on his lapel. Apart from sight problems, Dean said at his 108th birthday that he was still in good health.
On his 109th birthday, Dean joked that " thought forgotten " when his birthday telegram from the Queen that year arrived late. Dean said on his 109th birthday that he still hoped to live to his 110th birthday next year, which he did.
However, he was unable to attend a celebratory concert held the previous evening, and also had to receive his cake in bed due to not feeling well recently.
He said on his 110th birthday that he thought that he would reach age 111 next year and (perhaps jokingly) that he might be able to reach ages 115, 120, and 130. Dean died in January 2013, just two months after his 110th birthday. Dean was succeeded as the United Kingdom"s oldest living man by 109-year-old Ralph Tarrant.
He was an enthusiastic actor, singer, and amateur dramatist and in 1987, he helped found the Dalesmen Male Voice Choir, of which he was life president