Like many celebrities, Charles Byrne had a complicated relationship with fame. It brought him money and, with it, the people who would exploit and ultimately abandon him.
In 1782, Charles Byrne was perhaps the most recognisable person in Georgian . People queued for hours to gaze upon the 21-year-old Irishman. The cause of their fascination? Byrne’s immense height. Known as the Irish Giant, it was claimed that he was around 8 ft tall — though his skeleton measures 7 ft 7 in.
Now, 240 years after his death, just 12 months later in 1783, that same skeleton is at the centre of a controversy that surfaced once more last week after the Hunterian Museum, which is part of the Royal College of Surgeons, decided to remove it from public display.
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