Published:
12:00 PM December 11, 2020
Updated:
11:14 AM December 16, 2020
An engraving from 1817 of the dwarf Simon Papp next to James Toller who grew to eight feet tall.
- Credit: Archant
James Toller was born in Eynesbury, St Neots, in 1798 and became known as the Eynesbury Giant.
The St Neots Local History Society erected this plaque to remember James Toller.
- Credit: Archant
His parents were of average height, but by the age of 10, James was already five feet and by the time he was 18, he was said to be more than eight feet tall and his feet were fifteen inches in length.
News of the young man from Huntingdonshire who had grown into a giant spread across the country and James became famous.
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