Daniel Lambert, gaol keeper and dog breeder from Leicester, 1770-1809. Exhibited himself in London in 1806 weighing over 700lb, 320kg. Daniel Lambert, of surprising corpulency. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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