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Bob Taggart
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Robert "Bob" Taggart (28 June 1900 - 13 August 2009) was a British centenarian who was the second-oldest man in the United Kingdom (after Stanley Lucas), and the oldest man in Scotland, at the time of his death. Taggart was born on the High Street in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. He started working on the railways when he was 14 years old, and spent his entire career in the railway industry, working his way up to his final position as a claims inspector. Taggart was part of the Home Guard during World War II. Taggart was married for 65 years to Dorcas Taggart, who died in 1998 at age 90. —15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.<ref name="obit"/> He lived in his native Rutherglen for his entire life.<ref name="elder"/> Taggart died on 13 August 2009, at the age of 109. |
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