Police say he was last seen wearing dark trousers, a light shirt, light-coloured jacket and a trilby hat.

BBC: Tyne & Wear

And Mr Newby cut such a figure, handsome in immaculate safari suits and, in London, a trilby hat.

ECONOMIST: Eric Newby

His son, also John Gillespie, 55, said his father was a "gentleman", who was "always immaculately dressed, never without a shirt and tie and often with his trilby hat".

BBC: Family 'heartbroken' by pensioner's death after theft

He had turned up there on June 19th 2005 looking impressively dapper, in a woollen jacket and trilby hat and a freshly ironed shirt, to celebrate his 125th birthday.

ECONOMIST: Benito Mart��nez Abrog��n