John Suffield, ‘the liveliest… of the happy band of ninety-year olds’
[Submitted by Maggie Burns]
John Suffield of Birmingham lived to the grand age of ninety-seven. He was born in Old Lamb House, Bull Street in 1833 and died in Moseley just after his birthday in September 1930. The Suffield family had a drapery business in Old Lamb House, a half-timbered building on the corner of Bull Street and High Street. When he was born they lived above the shop. The sketch above, probably by John Suffield, accompanied an article he wrote “My Old Home” for the Central Literary Magazine in April 1887 [1]. In the early 1840s the family moved out to Edgbaston, one of Birmingham’s new suburbs. In the mid 1850s they moved to Moseley, then still in the countryside, on one of the hills immediately to the south of Birmingham. [continues]
[Image reference:John Suffield at Bag End, Dormston, Worcestershire in September 1930. From the Suffield collection, by kind permission of Oliver Suffield]
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