Allingham celebrated his 113th birthday on, at an event hosted by the Royal Navy.

Between his 110th and 111th birthdays Allingham made over 60 public appearances, including a visit to The Oval on 5 June 2007, the day before his 111th birthday, where he was wheeled around the boundary in front of the spectators.

On his 111th birthday, a Royal Marines band played to Allingham on board before he returned with friends and relatives to the Queen's Hotel on the Portsmouth seafront for afternoon tea.

Patrick Brady and Philip Allingham of Lakehead University have argued that the provincial government's attempt to bring Ontario in line with the rest of the continent's 12 grades system has only been partially successful.

The 1941-published novel Traitor's Purse ( US title The Sabotage Murder Mystery ) by Margery Allingham featured ( presumably by coincidence ) a very similar plot wherein, to lend them verisimilitude, the forged notes were to be posted to every household in Britain in parallel with a secretly-planned genuine Government mailing.

* An Allingham bibliography, with dates and publishers, from the UK Margery Allingham Society

* Another Allingham bibliography, with more alternative titles and links to summaries

Mates, Hartman, and Allingham decided to form a band with guitarists Dan Binns and David Switzer, bass guitarist Jeff Loberg, and drummer Remi Barre.

By June 2003, Pat Allingham left the group to spend more time with his family and was replaced by David Pichette.

However, after his mother died in 1915, aged 42, Allingham enlisted with the Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ).

Allingham later reported disappointment at barely missing an opportunity to speak with the king.

Speaking with Dennis Goodwin of the First World War Veterans ' Association, Allingham said, " It is a shock as well as a privilege to think that I am the only man alive from that original reorganisation when the RAF was formed.

Allingham attended, together with three other First World War veterans, William Stone, Fred Lloyd and John Oborne.

On 23 September 2008, Allingham launched a book about his life, co-written by Denis Goodwin, with an event at the RAF Club in London.

On 11 November 2008, marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, together with Harry Patch and Bill Stone, Allingham laid a commemorative wreath for the Act of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London.

The death of Japanese man Sukesaburo Nakanishi on 22 August 2007 meant that from then on Allingham shared the position of second-oldest man in the world with George Francis, an American man also born on 6 June 1896, for more than a year until Francis ' death on 27 December 2008.

* Video interviews conducted with Henry Allingham – May 2009 ( StoryVault )

It contains some of the Carlyles ' books ( many on permanent loan from the London Library, which was established by Carlyle ), pictures and personal possessions, together with collections of portraits by artist such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Helen Allingham and memorabilia assembled by their admirers.

On 11 November 2008, marking the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, together with fellow veterans Henry Allingham and Bill Stone, Patch laid a commemorative wreath for the Act of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London, escorted by Victoria Cross recipient Johnson Beharry.

Allingham makes various references to Campion's aristocratic background, and hints at a connection to royalty in several asides.

* Philip V. Allingham, John Forster: Essayist, Historian, and Editor, 1812-1876 at the Victorian Web

Allingham wanted to join the war effort in August 1914 as a despatch rider, but his critically ill mother managed to persuade him to stay at home and look after her.

After graduation, Allingham was posted to the RNAS Air Station at Great Yarmouth where he worked in aircraft maintenance.

When Allingham arrived at Petite-Synthe, both the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) and the RNAS were involved in the Ypres offensive.

The creation of the Royal Air Force did not initially have a big impact on Allingham and he later remarked that at that time he still considered himself a navy man.

In addition to his one remaining daughter Betty, at the time of his death Allingham had seven grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great-grandchildren, and one great-great-great-grandchild.

The Cenotaph in London at which Allingham attended ceremonies on 4 August 2004 and 11 November 2008, marking the 90th anniversary of the start and end of World War One

Allingham also marched past the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday in 2005 and laid wreaths at memorials in Saint-Omer on Armistice Day.

As the last surviving member of the RNAS, and the last living founding member of the RAF, Allingham was an honoured guest when the British Air Services Memorial was unveiled at Saint-Omer on 11 September 2004.

The group of RAF technical trainees that joined him at this ceremony continued to visit Allingham at his retirement home in Eastbourne, demonstrating the bond of respect that these men had for Allingham.

Allingham attended the 1 July 2006 commemorations at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.

On 1 April 2008, the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Air Force, Allingham was guest of honour at the celebratory events at RAF Odiham in Hampshire.

In June 2008, at his personal request, Allingham was taken on a guided tour of the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft at BAE Systems in Warton, Lancashire, as part of the National Veterans ' Day celebrations.

Allingham returned to the Home Establishment in February 1919 and was formally discharged to the RAF Reserve on 16 April 1919.

During the last few years of his life Allingham was recognized as the last surviving founding member of the RAF.

By then, Allingham was the only surviving founder member of the RAF.

Four female writers of the Golden Age are considered the four original " Queens of Crime ": Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham.

* June 6 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and world's oldest man ( d. 2009 )

* November 18 – William Allingham, Irish author ( b. 1824 or 1828 )

* March 19 – William Allingham, Irish author ( d. 1889 )

The poet William Allingham was also from Ballyshannon.

* William Allingham – Victorian poet.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

The last three British-resident veterans of World War I, Bill Stone, Henry Allingham, and Harry Patch, attended the 2008 ceremony but all died in 2009.

* Autolycus is the name of a pet Jackdaw belonging to the fictional detective Albert Campion in the novels by Margery Allingham.

Margery Allingham, in Time and Tide, wrote that her only regret, " is that the story was written in the first person.

* Margery Allingham: The Case Book of Mr. Campion — 1947

On 9 and 16 March 2009, Harry Patch and Henry Allingham ( both now deceased ) were promoted to Officers.

* Allingham, William, Rhymes for the Young Folk, Cassell and Co., 1887.

In 1986 he was identified as the co-author of a book published in 1954 called Flying Saucer from Mars, attributed to Cedric Allingham, which was intended as a practical joke on UFO believers ; Moore has never admitted his involvement.

Davison also played the lead in Campion, a series based on the period whodunnits of Margery Allingham.