Christopher Greener (born Christopher Paul Greener, 21 November 1943) was the United Kingdom's tallest British-born man for nearly 4 decades, peaking at 7 feet 6.25 inches in (229.2 cm) in height, until Neil Fingleton (and later also Paul Sturgess) grew even taller. His weight ranged from 20-30 stone during his adulthood. Chris Greener, from a very young age, had a tumour at the base of his pituitary gland, which controls the release of human growth hormone. The tumour caused Greener's pituitary to grow to several times the size of that of an average person, and he would not have stopped growing had the tumour not been surgically removed when he was in his late 20s. Amazingly, his condition, pituitary gigantism, was not diagnosed until 1970 when Christopher Greener was 27 years old and 7 f