Daniel Lambert
When Leicester's celebrated colossus Daniel Lambert died the local undertaker had a big problem on his hands - the great man's size.
The famed heavy weight weighed a mighty 52st 11lb and was a huge 9ft 4ins around his waist. He died at 36 of a heart attack in a Stamford hotel whilst on a trip to the races.
In death his weight proved more of a problem than it had in life - a wall had to be demolished to get him out of the room. His coffin was made from 112 square feet of elm and measured 4ft 4ins wide. An enormous ramp was laid into his grave plot, and it took more than 20 men to lower him in.
Fat Dan, as he was called, was born in Leicester in 1770. He was so huge he couldn't sink - and he used to float along the River Soar with children on his stomach.
Lambert worked in the town jail but by the time he was 30 he was too large to carry on. He ended his days adored by the rich and dandy and rented London apartments where people would pay a shilling just to come and see him.
The Newarke Houses Museum has a display featuring the life of Daniel Lambert.