Hefty price achieved for ‘England’s fattest man’ portrait
When Daniel Lambert, the famously rotund prison warden from Leicester, died in June 1809 at the Waggon and Horses Inn at Stamford, Lincolnshire, the title of ‘England’s fattest man’ transferred to a new contender.
The Reverend Joseph Coltman weighed a hefty 43 stone, just one stone shy of Lambert. His size had …