Chapter Gesa to Giants in Real Life of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

(6b) Muller (Maximilian Christopher), 8 feet. His hand measured 12 inches, and his fore-finger was 9 inches long. The Saxon giant. Died in London (1674–1734).

(7b) Murphy, 8 feet 10 inches. An Irish giant, contemporary with O’Brien. Died at Marseilles.

(8b) O’Brien (Charles), 8 feet 2 inches. An Irish giant; no relation of Patrick. Born 1761; died 1783.

(9b) O’Brien (Patrick), the Irish giant, was 8 feet 7 inches in height. His skeleton is preserved in the museum of the College of Surgeons. Born 1760; died August 3. 1807, aged 47.

(2c) OG, king of Bashan. “His bed was 9 cubits by 4 cubits” (? 13 ½ feet by 6 feet).—Deut. iii. 11.

N.B.—The Great Bed of Ware was 12 feet by 12 feet; but in 1895 it was shortened by 3 feet. It is now (1897) at Rye House.

(3c) Osen (Heinrich), 7 feet 6 inches; weight, 300 lbs. or 37 ½ stone. Born in Norway.

(4c) Parsons (Walter), 9 feet 6 inches. Gate porter to James 1. and Charles II.

(5c) Porus, an Indian king who fought against Alexander near the river Hydaspêes (B. C. 327). He was a giant “5 cubits in height” [7 ½ feet]. with strength in proportion.—Quintus Curtius: De Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni.

(6c) Riechart (J.H.) 8 feet 3 inches, of Friedberg. His father and mother were both giants.

(7c) Salmeron (Martin), 7 feet 4 inches. A Mexican.

(8c) Sam (Big), 6 feet 10 inches. (See M’Donald.)

(9c) Sheridan (Francis), 7 feet 8 inches. (See Frank.)

(2d) Swan (Miss Anne Hanen), 7 feet; of Nova Scotia.

(3d) Toller (J.), 8 feet. Born 1795; died 1819, aged 24.

(4d) Von Brusted, of Norway, 8 feet. Exhibited in London, 1881.

In 1682, a giant 7 feet 7 inches was exhibited in Dublin. A Swede 8 feet 6 inches was in the body-guard of a king of Prussia. A human skeleton 8 feet 6 inches is preserved in the museum of Trinity College, Dublin.

Becanus says he had seen a man nearly 10 feet high, and a woman fully 10 feet. Gasper Bauhin speaks of a Swiss 8 feet in height. Del Rio says he saw a Piedmontese in 1572 more than 9 feet in stature. C. S. F. Warren, M. A., says (in Notes and Queries, August 14, 1875) that his father knew a lady 9 feet high; “her head touched the ceiling of a goodsized room.” Vanderbrook says he saw a black man, at Congo, 9 feet high.

It will be seen that the tallest man was Eleazer who was 10 ½ feet. Andronicus was 10 feet.