Longest serving executioner The longest period of office for a public executioner is 45 years (1829-1874), served by William Calcraft (1800-79), who officiated at nearly every outdoor and indoor hanging at Newgate Prison, London, UK.
The longest serving English Premier League football manager is Sir Alex Ferguson (UK) who has managed Manchester United for all 19 seasons the league has been running, 1992/93 – 2010/11.
The longest serving Den Mother is Adele Trapp (USA) with 53 years of service to Cub Pack 263 of the Greater New York Council Boy Scouts of America as of 26 April 2010. Cub Pack 1263 is sponsored by St. Philips Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Thomas E. Hawley of Howard, Wisconsin, USA served as Chief of Police for the City of Green Bay from 17 August 1897 to 1 June 1946, a total of 49 years. He started working for the Green Bay Police in 1893 as a Patrolman, was made captain in 1895 and chief of police in 1897. He died in 1951.
The longest-serving captain of any team in National Hockey League (NHL) history is 20 seasons by Steve Yzerman (Canada) who continuously served as the captain of the Detroit Red Wings (USA) from 1986 to 2006. Yzerman led the Red Wings to three Stanley Cup championships (1997-98, 2002) and had his jersey No. 19 retired in a ceremony at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, USA on 2 January 2007.
The longest serving office holder at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, since records began, On 1 May 2001 Dr Digby Burton (UK) retired as Tower Captain at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, UK after 47 years in charge of the church’s bell tower. He first took command the team of bell ringers in 1964 and since then rang the bells two or three times every week. Over the course of his career he rang 138 ‘peals’, each one lasting over 3 hours.
The longest serving altar boy is Thomas Sunderland (UK, b 23 March 1913) who began serving at St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK at the age of six in 1919 and continues to do so in 2005, a total of 86 years. Mr Sutherland has been awarded medals, including the Pope’s Medal for service to St Thomas’. Mr Sutherland died on the 15 January 2007.
Jon Sanders (Australia) completed a series of three non-stop singlehanded circumnavigations in 13.9 m (44 ft) sloop Parry Endeavour in 657 days from 25 May 1986 to 13 March 1988. Starting and finishing in Fremantle, Western Australia, he made one circumnavigation Westabout and two Eastabout.
The longest sequence of objects memorized in one minute is 22 and was achieved by Sudhakar Raju (India) at the Anantapur Press Club, Andhra Pradesh, India on 10 December 2011. Sudhakar took 49.50 seconds to recall the 22 objects, after having one minute to memorise them all.
The longest seesaw / teeter totter is 24.13 m (79 ft 2 in) long and 2.82 m (6 ft 10 in) high in the middle and was created by Ashrita Furman and 12 members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre (USA) in Jamaica, New York, USA, on 27 August 2010. The see saw measured 3.53 m (11 ft 7 in) high on one side in the “up” position.