Patrick Murphy (giant)

Patrick Murphy was an Irish giant, born in Killowen, County Down on 15th June 1834 of parents James Murphy and mother Peggy, who exhibited himself as a means of income. He originally worked on the docks in Liverpool, England and later became a waiter at a hotel. Because he was a man of extraordinary height, Murphy attracted crowds everywhere he went. He eventually decided that he could make an honest living being tall. Sources at the time list his height between and. In about 1860, he was measured by Dr. Virchow as being tall.
In May 1857 the Emperor and Empress of Austria invited the towering native of Ireland to visit their kingdom. On April 18, 1862, while he was on tour throughout Europe, he died of smallpox in Marseille at the age of twenty-eight.