O’Britu had a morbid dread I* st after hi*
death his body should be seized on by the
ciiirurgieal f.Aiternity ami dissected, so
in his will i*o directs th it his r- mains
slia-il be ti.town into the .rea. A paper of
tl.e period giv. s :* detailed account of his
burial at sea. off the coast of Margate, but
it was .lit' . wards ass. rted iu Tl.e Public
Ledger that Dr. William Hunter had pur
* !ia.- -d the body of the celebrated giant,
whose skeleton was sub.requ- atly added to
tile oth. r wonders of the ii .un rian collec
tion to L" Seen tn Lincoln's inn Fields.
Tb" other lr:s:i giant, I’atrr k • > Bri n.
was lior:i about 17*1”, nt ixln-ale. His r. al
name was Cotter, and in- 111 isur.d s f< • l
7 inches, though the advertis meats of t:.e
tim- give :: s height as 5 f-. t, a id claim
for him a descent from King Brian B iru.
Though much tall r than Caarles O'Brien
(to whom In- was .it no way r- at'*’,i. F.i:-
riek lu' k'.l th.- la: ■r s strength ai l
physique, timugh h* lived to be more tn .u
twice as obi as tile small- r giant, uy l::g at
tile age oi 47.
It is said that from Yorkshire ind Lan
cashire < ini'- the tall ■st i<"-: ami wm-.i,
a.- lor ns England is « e,'<-. - -I.
