List of British supercentenarians - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of verified British supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

s (people from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

who have attained the age of at least 110 years). There have been 118 verified supercentenarians from the United Kingdom. The oldest person ever from the United Kingdom was Charlotte Hughes, who died in 1993 aged 115 years 228 days. As of , there are 8 verified living supercentenarians, 2 pending, and 1 unverified in the United Kingdom, the oldest of whom is Violet Wood

Violet Wood

Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...

age .

Living British supercentenarians

Below is a list of the oldest living people from the United Kingdom. The reported age of those listed as 'verified' has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity

Longevity

The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....

research. The reported age of those listed as 'pending' is backed by at least one supporting document, but not the three necessary for validation. The reported age of those listed as 'unverified' is not backed by any of the documents necessary for validation by such an institution.

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Country of birth	Place of residence
1	Violet Wood Violet Wood Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...	F	2 September 1899	England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...	Whitstable Whitstable Whitstable is a seaside town in Northeast Kent, Southeast England. It is approximately north of the city of Canterbury and approximately west of the seaside town of Herne Bay. It is part of the City of Canterbury district and has a population of about 30,000.Whitstable is famous for its oysters,... , England
2	Grace Jones	F	7 December 1899	England	Bermondsey Bermondsey Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham.-Toponomy:... , England
3	Ellen Watson	F	3 January 1900	England	Staines Staines Staines is a Thames-side town in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey and Greater London Urban Area, as well as the London Commuter Belt of South East England. It is a suburban development within the western bounds of the M25 motorway and located 17 miles west south-west of Charing Cross in... , England
4	Ethel Lang	F	27 May 1900	England	Barnsley Barnsley Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster. Barnsley is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, of which Barnsley is the largest and... , England
5	Margaret Cooke	F	15 September 1900	England	Beaconsfield Beaconsfield Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies northwest of Charing Cross in Central London, and south-east of the county town of Aylesbury... , England
6	Irene Pearce	F	5 January 1901	England	Norwich Norwich Norwich is a city in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. During the 11th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom... , England
7	Florence Green Florence Green Florence Beatrice Green is the last known living veteran of the First World War. She was a member of the Women's Royal Air Force.-Biography:...	F	19 February 1901	England	King's Lynn King's Lynn King's Lynn is a sea port and market town in the ceremonial county of Norfolk in the East of England. It is situated north of London and west of Norwich. The population of the town is 42,800.... , England
8	Ellaline Redmond	F	20 March 1901	England	Bournemouth Bournemouth Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth... , England
	Kathleen McManners	F	6 July 1901	England	Lincoln Lincoln Lincoln commonly refers to:* Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States* Lincoln, England* Lincoln, Nebraska, the state's capital* Lincoln , a luxury brand of the Ford Motor Company* Lincoln , people with the surname Lincoln... ,England
	Janet Roberts	F	13 August 1901	Scotland	Craigellachie Craigellachie Craigellachie may refer to:* Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada* Craigellachie, Moray, Scotland* Craigellachie, New Zealand* Craigellachie, a National Nature Reserve near Aviemore, Scotland* Craigellachie Bridge* Craigellachie Whisky... , Scotland
	Kathleen Grimwood	F	19 August 1901	England	Sudbury Sudbury, Suffolk Sudbury is a small, ancient market town in the county of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour, from Colchester and from London.-Early history:... , England

British emigrant supercentenarians

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1	Amelia England	F	15 May 1900		England	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
2	Avice Clarke	F	17 May 1900		England	United States

British supercentenarians

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1	Charlotte Hughes	F		England	England
2	Annie Jennings Annie Jennings Annie Jennings, née Thomas was a British supercentenarian and the world's second oldest living person, after American Sarah Knauss, at Jennings' death at age 115 years 8 days. Jennings hailed from Chesterfield, Derbyshire where she celebrated her 114th birthday...	F		England	England
3	Eva Morris Eva Morris Eva Morris née Sharpe was the oldest recognised person in the world, by the Guinness Book of Records, from December 1999 until November 2000...	F		England	England
4	Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....	F		England	Wales
5	Lucy Jane Askew	F		England	England
6	Florrie Baldwin Florrie Baldwin Florence Emily Baldwin, née Davies was, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and Europe.-Biography:...	F		England	England
7	Amy Hulmes Amy Hulmes Amy Isabel Hulmes née Matthews from Bury, Lancashire, England was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in Britain until her death, at the age of 114 years and 22 days. She was also thought to be the oldest person in the world, before the discovery of Maude Farris-Luse who was nine...	F		England	England
8	Rosa Ann Comfort	F		England	England
9	Lucy d'Abreu Lucy d'Abreu Lucy Victoria d'Abreu née d'Souza was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death...	F		India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
10	Daisy Adams	F		England	England
11	Henry Allingham Henry Allingham Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...	M		England	England
12	Annie Scott	F		Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Scotland
13	Ruby Gilliam	F		England	England
14	Rebecca Hewison	F		England	England
15	John Evans John Evans (supercentenarian) John Evans of Fforestfach, Swansea was the longest-lived authenticated man ever from the United Kingdom from 27 May 1989 until 29 March 2009, when Henry Allingham broke his record...	M		Wales	Wales
16	Nellie Bradley	F		England	England
17	Gladys Ivy Hawley	F		England	England
18	Annie Butler Annie Butler Annie Butler was an English supercentenarian, who, at the age of 112, was the second-oldest person in the United Kingdom until her death in 2009....	F		England	England
19	Violet Wood Violet Wood Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...	F	Living	England	Living in England
20	Mary Ann Hebden	F		England	England
21	Judy Ingamells	F		England	England
22	Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson was born at Piccadilly, England and became a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between the death of 112-year-old Josefa Salas Mateo on 27 February 1973 and Stevenson's own death, aged 112 years 39 days when she died at Sutton,...	F		England	England
23	Janetta Thomas	F		Wales	Wales
24	Margaret Fish Margaret Fish Margaret Ethel Fish of Wilstead, Bedfordshire was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Elsie Steele on 18 October 2010 until her own death on 12 March 2011, aged 112 years 5 days.She was born at Tower Hamlets and married Frank Fish, a World War I veteran, in...	F		England	England
25	Grace Jones	F	Living	England	Living in England
26	Annie Price	F		Wales	England
27	Annie Turnbull Annie Turnbull Annie Ellis Turnbull was, at the time of her death, aged , the oldest person in the United Kingdom since the death of Eunice Bowman on 16 July 2010. Turnbull had been the oldest person in Scotland since the death of Alexina Calvert on 19 September 2008...	F		Scotland	Scotland
28	Ada Roe Ada Roe Ada Roe, née Giddings was a British supercentenarian. She was born in Islington, England, and moved to Lowestoft over 60 years before her death with her husband, who died shortly afterwards. Roe was the oldest recognised living person between c. October 1968 and her death aged 111 years 339 days...	F		England	England
29	Helen Haward	F		England	England
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Eunice Bowman

Eunice Bowman was a British supercentenarian from Gateshead, and at the age of 111 years 327 days was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of Florrie Baldwin on 8 May 2010.-Biography:...

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Elsie Steele

Elsie May Steele was, at age , the oldest person in the United Kingdom and the oldest person in England following the death of 111-year-old Annie Turnbull on 3 September 2010....

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John Mosely Turner

John Mosely Turner was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years...

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Annie Knight was, at age 111, the United Kingdom's oldest person following the death of fellow 111-year-old Emmeline Brice on 26 July 2006....

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Emmeline Brice

Emmeline Frances Brice, née Hastin was the oldest living resident of the UK at age 111, following the death of Judy Ingamells on 1 March 2006, who was 112....

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Aida Mason

Ada Mason, née Wagstaff was the oldest living person in the UK at 111 years of age, from the death of fellow 111-year-old Scotswoman Annie Knight on 27 November 2006, until Mason's own death at age 111 years, 138 days....

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Catherine Masters

Catherine Murray Millar Masters was a British supercentenarian who became the last living person who was born in Scotland during the 19th century and the Victorian era....

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Harry Patch

Henry John "Harry" Patch , known in his latter years as "the Last Fighting Tommy", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War...

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

Margaret Ann Neve

Margaret Ann Neve, née Harvey of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first supercentenarian of either sex in the 20th century. Neve was the only supercentenarian born in the 18th century who lived to the 20th century, and she was the first...

Guernsey

Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

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Florence Green

Florence Beatrice Green is the last known living veteran of the First World War. She was a member of the Women's Royal Air Force.-Biography:...

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Frederick Butterfield

Frederick Victor Butterfield of Harrogate, England became the world's oldest man on 5 May 1973 after the death of Friedrich Wedeking. He was succeeded by the now disputed case of Shigechiyo Izumi. Born at Thirsk, he qualified as a chemist in 1885 after training for five years...

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Hannah Smith (supercentenarian)

Hannah Smith was born in Salford, England and lived to become a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person in the world....

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a d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

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British emigrant supercentenarians

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Country of birth	Country of death
1	Grace Clawson	F	15 November 1887	28 May 2002	114 years, 194 days	England	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
2	Miriam Carpelan	F	8 July 1882	22 June 1996	113 years, 350 days	England	United States
3	Florence Finch Florence Finch Florence Finch was a British born New Zealand supercentenarian. She moved to New Zealand permanently in 1969.She holds the longevity record for New Zealand....	F	22 December 1893	10 April 2007	113 years, 109 days	England	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
4	Betsy Baker Betsy Baker (supercentenarian) Betsy Russell Baker was the first listed supercentenarian in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's then-oldest person...	F	20 August 1842	24 October 1955	113 years, 65 days	England	United States
5	Alice Sjöquist	F	25 October 1878	7 November 1991	113 years, 13 days	England	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
6	Mary Ellen Swan	F	24 June 1892	10 August 2004	112 years, 47 days	England	Canada
7	Amelia England	F	15 May 1900	Living		England	Living in the United States
8	Avice Clarke	F	17 May 1900	Living		England	Living in the United States
9	George Frederick Ives George Frederick Ives -External links:*...	M	17 November 1881	12 April 1993	111 years, 146 days	England	Canada
10	Bessie Roffey	F	2 March 1897	17 June 2008	111 years, 107 days	England	Canada
11	Harriet Trudgen	F	22 May 1889	2 August 2000	111 years, 72 days	England	United States
12	Miriam Bannister Miriam Bannister Miriam Sparks Banister née Voisey was one of the earliest supercentenarians. Born in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England to John and Hester Voisey, she married John Bodman Banister in 1850 at the age of 33. She later moved to the United States in 1854. She attributed her longevity to "simple foods,...	F	19 March 1817	9 April 1928	111 years, 21 days	England	United States
13	Florence Van Stockum	F	5 October 1894	2 May 2005	110 years, 209 days	England	United States
14	Dorothy Hodgson	F	23 July 1897	7 December 2007	110 years, 137 days	England	Canada
15	Evelyn Norris	F	8 October 1882	8 February 1993	110 years, 123 days	England	United States
16	Ann Pouder	F	8 April 1807	10 July 1917	110 years, 93 days	England	United States
17	Claude Choules Claude Choules Claude Stanley Choules was the last World War I combat veteran, and was the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War...	M	3 March 1901	5 May 2011		England	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
18	Zoe Hiehle	F	19 August 1879	25 August 1989	110 years, 6 days	England	United States

Oldest living British people by region

This is a list of the oldest living people from each of the home nations

Home Nations

Home Nations is a collective term with one of two meanings depending on the context. Politically, it means the nations of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom...

of the United Kingdom, and its Crown Dependencies.

Country	Name	Sex	Birth date
England	Violet Wood Violet Wood Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...	F	2 September 1899
England	Rev. Reg Dean	M	4 November 1902
Scotland


Janet Roberts	F	13 August 1901
David Campbell	M	28 July 1905
Wales	Dilys Garrett	F	26 May 1903
	Rhys Lewis (lives in England)	M	17 September 1903
	Geoffrey Davies	M	12 November 1906

Oldest British people by region

This is a list of the oldest people by birth from each home nation, Crown dependency and overseas territory

British overseas territories

The British Overseas Territories are fourteen territories of the United Kingdom which, although they do not form part of the United Kingdom itself, fall under its jurisdiction. They are remnants of the British Empire that have not acquired independence or have voted to remain British territories...

of the United Kingdom - according to current borders.

Country	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age
British Raj	Lucy d'Abreu Lucy d'Abreu Lucy Victoria d'Abreu née d'Souza was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death...	F	24 May 1892	7 December 2005	113 years, 197 days
England	Charlotte Hughes	F	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days
England	Henry Allingham Henry Allingham Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...	M	6 June 1896	18 July 2009	113 years, 42 days
Guernsey	Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve Margaret Ann Neve, née Harvey of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first supercentenarian of either sex in the 20th century. Neve was the only supercentenarian born in the 18th century who lived to the 20th century, and she was the first...	F	18 May 1792	4 April 1903	110 years, 321 days
Northern Ireland	Annie Scott	F	15 March 1883	21 April 1996	113 years, 37 days
Scotland	Annie Turnbull Annie Turnbull Annie Ellis Turnbull was, at the time of her death, aged , the oldest person in the United Kingdom since the death of Eunice Bowman on 16 July 2010. Turnbull had been the oldest person in Scotland since the death of Alexina Calvert on 19 September 2008...	F	21 September 1898	3 September 2010	111 years, 347 days
Scotland	David Henderson	M	14 June 1889	14 November 1998	109 years, 153 days
Wales	John Evans John Evans (supercentenarian) John Evans of Fforestfach, Swansea was the longest-lived authenticated man ever from the United Kingdom from 27 May 1989 until 29 March 2009, when Henry Allingham broke his record...	M	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days
Wales	Janetta Thomas	F	2 December 1869	5 January 1982	112 years, 34 days

a The British Raj had ended in 1947. It is now India.

Chronological list of the oldest living person in the United Kingdom since 1963

From	To	Name	Sex	Age(s) when oldest	Lifespan	Place of death
?	8 October 1963	Ellen Dart	F	? – 108	1 November 1854 – 8 October 1963 108 years, 341 days	Paignton Paignton Paignton is a coastal town in Devon in England. Together with Torquay and Brixham it forms the unitary authority of Torbay which was created in 1998. The Torbay area is a holiday destination known as the English Riviera. Paignton's population in the United Kingdom Census of 2001 was 48,251. It has... , England
8 October 1963	6 March 1965	Elizabeth Kensley	F	108 – 109	12 May 1855 – 6 March 1965 109 years, 298 days	St Pancras St Pancras, London St Pancras is an area of London. For many centuries the name has been used for various officially-designated areas, but now is used informally and rarely having been largely superseded by several other names for overlapping districts.-Ancient parish:... , England
6 March 1965	10 January 1966 ( days)	Hannah Smith Hannah Smith (supercentenarian) Hannah Smith was born in Salford, England and lived to become a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person in the world....	F	109 – 110	7 January 1856 – 10 January 1966 110 years, 3 days	Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely... , England
10 January 1966	21 March 1968	John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner John Mosely Turner was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years...	M	109 – 111	15 June 1856 – 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days	Tottenham Tottenham Tottenham is an area of the London Borough of Haringey, England, situated north north east of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:Tottenham is believed to have been named after Tota, a farmer, whose hamlet was mentioned in the Domesday Book; hence Tota's hamlet became Tottenham... , England
21 March 1968	11 January 1970	Ada Roe Ada Roe Ada Roe, née Giddings was a British supercentenarian. She was born in Islington, England, and moved to Lowestoft over 60 years before her death with her husband, who died shortly afterwards. Roe was the oldest recognised living person between c. October 1968 and her death aged 111 years 339 days...	F	110 – 111	6 February 1858 – 11 January 1970 111 years, 339 days	Lowestoft Lowestoft Lowestoft is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and south-east of Norwich... , England
11 January 1970	18 August 1973	Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson Alice Stevenson was born at Piccadilly, England and became a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between the death of 112-year-old Josefa Salas Mateo on 27 February 1973 and Stevenson's own death, aged 112 years 39 days when she died at Sutton,...	F	108 – 112	10 July 1861 – 18 August 1973 112 years, 39 days	Sutton London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton is a London borough in South London, England and forms part of Outer London. It covers an area of and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It is one of the southernmost boroughs of London... , England
18 August 1973	31 October 1973 ( days)	Elizabeth Watkins	F	110	10 March 1863 – 31 October 1973 110 years, 235 days	Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... , Northern Ireland
31 October 1973	9 March 1974 ( days)	Frederick Butterfield Frederick Butterfield Frederick Victor Butterfield of Harrogate, England became the world's oldest man on 5 May 1973 after the death of Friedrich Wedeking. He was succeeded by the now disputed case of Shigechiyo Izumi. Born at Thirsk, he qualified as a chemist in 1885 after training for five years...	M	109 – 110	28 February 1864 – 9 March 1974 110 years, 9 days	Harrogate Harrogate Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. The town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters, RHS Harlow Carr gardens, and Betty's Tea Rooms. From the town one can explore the nearby Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate originated in the 17th... , England
9 March 1974	24 December 1975	Rose Heeley	F	109 – 111	25 August 1864 – 24 December 1975 111 years, 121 days	Droitwich, England
24 December 1975	12 March 1976 ( days)	Agnes Helyar	F	109	19 September 1866 – 12 March 1976 109 years, 175 days	Abbots Langley Abbots Langley Abbots Langley is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is an old settlement and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Economically the village is closely linked to Watford and was formerly part of the Watford Rural District... , England
12 March 1976	12 February 1978	Sarah Morgan	F	109 – 111	23 January 1867 – 12 February 1978 111 years, 20 days	Tonbridge Tonbridge Tonbridge is a market town in the English county of Kent, with a population of 30,340 in 2007. It is located on the River Medway, approximately 4 miles north of Tunbridge Wells, 12 miles south west of Maidstone and 29 miles south east of London... , England
12 February 1978	12 February 1979	Lilias Williams	F	109 – 110	30 November 1868 – 12 February 1979 110 years, 74 days	Launceston, England
12 February 1979	20 October 1980	Florence Pannell	F	110 – 111	26 December 1868 – 20 October 1980 111 years, 299 days	Kensington Kensington Kensington is a district of west and central London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street, and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington.To the north, Kensington is... , England
20 October 1980	5 January 1982	Janetta Thomas	F	110 – 112	2 December 1869 – 5 January 1982 112 years, 34 days	Cowbridge Cowbridge Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, approximately west of Cardiff. Cowbridge is twinned with Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique department in northwestern France.-Roman times:... , Wales
5 January 1982	9 October 1982 ( days)	Alice Brewster	F	110 – 111	16 September 1871 – 9 October 1982 111 years, 23 days	Bath, England
9 October 1982	27 December 1987	Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....	F	109 – 114	2 June 1873 – 27 December 1987 114 years, 208 days	Swansea Swansea Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands... , Wales
27 December 1987	5 September 1988 ( days)	Kate Begbie	F	110 – 111	9 January 1877 – 5 September 1988 111 years, 240 days	Dundee Dundee Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea... , Scotland
5 September 1988	17 March 1993	Charlotte Hughes	F	111 – 115	1 August 1877 – 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days	Redcar Redcar Redcar is a seaside resort in the north east of England, and a major town in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It lies east-northeast of Middlesbrough by the North Sea coast... , England
17 March 1993	8 December 1993 ( days)	Daisy Adams	F	112 – 113	30 June 1880 – 8 December 1993 113 years, 161 days	Church Gresley Church Gresley Church Gresley is a village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is very close to the town of Swadlincote, between the town and Castle Gresley. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,805.The toponym "Gresley" is derived... , England
8 December 1993	22 September 1994 ( days)	Rebecca Hewison	F	112	19 October 1881 – 22 September 1994 112 years, 338 days	Grimsby Grimsby Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996... , England
22 September 1994	21 April 1996	Annie Scott	F	111 – 113	15 March 1883 – 21 April 1996 113 years, 37 days	Reay Reay Reay is a village which has grown around Sandside Bay on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland. It is within the historic Parish of Reay and the historic county of Caithness.... , Scotland
21 April 1996	9 December 1997	Lucy Jane Askew	F	112 – 114	8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997 114 years, 92 days	Loughton Loughton Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill... , England
9 December 1997	20 November 1999	Annie Jennings Annie Jennings Annie Jennings, née Thomas was a British supercentenarian and the world's second oldest living person, after American Sarah Knauss, at Jennings' death at age 115 years 8 days. Jennings hailed from Chesterfield, Derbyshire where she celebrated her 114th birthday...	F	113 – 115	12 November 1884 – 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days	Chesterfield Chesterfield Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Its population is 70,260 , making it Derbyshire's largest town... , England
20 November 1999	2 November 2000 ( days)	Eva Morris Eva Morris Eva Morris née Sharpe was the oldest recognised person in the world, by the Guinness Book of Records, from December 1999 until November 2000...	F	114	8 November 1885 – 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days	Stone Stone, Staffordshire Stone is an old market town in Staffordshire, England, situated about seven miles north of Stafford, and around seven miles south of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It is the second town, after Stafford itself, in the Borough of Stafford, and has long been of importance from the point of view of... , England
2 November 2000	27 October 2001 ( days)	Amy Hulmes Amy Hulmes Amy Isabel Hulmes née Matthews from Bury, Lancashire, England was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in Britain until her death, at the age of 114 years and 22 days. She was also thought to be the oldest person in the world, before the discovery of Maude Farris-Luse who was nine...	F	113 – 114	5 October 1887 – 27 October 2001 114 years, 22 days	Bury Bury Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, east of Bolton, west-southwest of Rochdale, and north-northwest of the city of Manchester... , England
27 October 2001	11 March 2002 ( days)	Nellie Bradley	F	112	12 September 1889 – 11 March 2002 112 years, 180 days	Keighley Keighley Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated northwest of Bradford and is at the confluence of the River Aire and the River Worth... , England
11 March 2002	28 April 2004	Gladys Ivy Hawley	F	110 – 112	18 December 1891 – 28 April 2004 112 years, 132 days	Chesterfield, England
28 April 2004	7 December 2005	Lucy d'Abreu Lucy d'Abreu Lucy Victoria d'Abreu née d'Souza was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death...	F	111 – 113	24 May 1892 – 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days	Stirling Stirling Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth... , Scotland
7 December 2005	1 March 2006 ( days)	Judy Ingamells	F	111 – 112	12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006 112 years, 48 days	Enfield London Borough of Enfield The London Borough of Enfield is the most northerly London borough and forms part of Outer London. It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest... , England
1 March 2006	26 July 2006 ( days)	Emmeline Brice Emmeline Brice Emmeline Frances Brice, née Hastin was the oldest living resident of the UK at age 111, following the death of Judy Ingamells on 1 March 2006, who was 112....	F	110 – 111	9 March 1895 – 26 July 2006 111 years, 139 days	Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard -Lower schools:Beaudesert Lower School - Apennine WayClipstone Brook Lower School - Brooklands DriveGreenleas Lower School - Derwent RoadDovery Down Lower School - Heath RoadHeathwood Lower School - Heath RoadLeedon Lower School - Highfield Road... , England
26 July 2006	27 November 2006 ( days)	Annie Knight Annie Knight Annie Knight was, at age 111, the United Kingdom's oldest person following the death of fellow 111-year-old Emmeline Brice on 26 July 2006....	F	111	6 June 1895 – 27 November 2006 111 years, 174 days	Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of .... , Scotland
27 November 2006	9 February 2007 ( days)	Aida Mason Aida Mason Ada Mason, née Wagstaff was the oldest living person in the UK at 111 years of age, from the death of fellow 111-year-old Scotswoman Annie Knight on 27 November 2006, until Mason's own death at age 111 years, 138 days....	F	111	24 September 1895 – 9 February 2007 111 years, 138 days	Upton Upton, West Yorkshire Upton is a village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 3,541.It is situated south of Badsworth and north of North Elmsall and is part of the SESKU area... , England
9 February 2007	8 May 2010	Florrie Baldwin Florrie Baldwin Florence Emily Baldwin, née Davies was, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and Europe.-Biography:...	F	110 – 114	31 March 1896 – 8 May 2010 114 years, 38 days	Leeds Leeds Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial... , England
8 May 2010	16 July 2010 ( days)	Eunice Bowman Eunice Bowman Eunice Bowman was a British supercentenarian from Gateshead, and at the age of 111 years 327 days was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of Florrie Baldwin on 8 May 2010.-Biography:...	F	111	23 August 1898 – 16 July 2010 111 years, 327 days	Gateshead Gateshead Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside... , England
16 July 2010	3 September 2010 ( days)	Annie Turnbull Annie Turnbull Annie Ellis Turnbull was, at the time of her death, aged , the oldest person in the United Kingdom since the death of Eunice Bowman on 16 July 2010. Turnbull had been the oldest person in Scotland since the death of Alexina Calvert on 19 September 2008...	F	111	21 September 1898 – 3 September 2010 111 years, 347 days	Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area... , Scotland
3 September 2010	18 October 2010 ( days)	Elsie Steele Elsie Steele Elsie May Steele was, at age , the oldest person in the United Kingdom and the oldest person in England following the death of 111-year-old Annie Turnbull on 3 September 2010....	F	111	6 January 1899 – 18 October 2010 111 years, 285 days	Repton Repton Repton is a village and civil parish on the edge of the River Trent floodplain in South Derbyshire, about north of Swadlincote. Repton is close to the county boundary with neighbouring Staffordshire and about northeast of Burton upon Trent.-History:... , England
18 October 2010	12 March 2011 ( days)	Margaret Fish Margaret Fish Margaret Ethel Fish of Wilstead, Bedfordshire was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Elsie Steele on 18 October 2010 until her own death on 12 March 2011, aged 112 years 5 days.She was born at Tower Hamlets and married Frank Fish, a World War I veteran, in...	F	111 – 112	7 March 1899 – 12 March 2011 112 years, 5 days	Wilstead Wilstead .Wilstead is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, just off the A6 Bedford to Luton road, about five miles south of Bedford town centre, and within the Borough of Bedford. The name of the village has been spelled in many different ways, including Wilshamstead, Wylhamstead, and... , England
12 March 2011	Present ( days)	Violet Wood Violet Wood Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...	F	111 – 112*	born 2 September 1899 age	Living in Whitstable, England

Jeanetta Thomas

J(e)anetta Jane Thomas (2 December 1869 – 5 January 1982) of Llantrisant

Llantrisant

Llantrisant is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the River Ely and the Afon Clun. The town's name translates as The Parish of the Three Saints. The three saints in question are St Illtyd, St Gwynno and St...

, Wales was a British supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

and was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records in the 1980s. Thomas spent her youth in London working as a seamstress. At the age of around 40, she returned to Wales to open a drapery

Drapery

Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles . It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.In art history, drapery refers to any cloth or...

shop, which she ran until the age of 98. Thomas was the last surviving person in the UK to have been born in the 1860s. She was also the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from 20 October 1980 until her death, at the age of 112 years and 34 days. She was the last surviving person in Britain to be born in the 1860s

1860s

The 1860s were an extremely turbulent decade with numerous cultural, social, and political upheavals in Europe and America. Revolutions were prevalent in Germany and the Ottoman Empire...

.

From the age of 107, Thomas resided at a nursing home at Cowbridge

Cowbridge

Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, approximately west of Cardiff. Cowbridge is twinned with Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique department in northwestern France.-Roman times:...

, Wales. A photograph of her, which was taken the day before her 112th birthday, appeared in The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

. Had Thomas lived another six days, she would have broken the British longevity record which at that time was held by Alice Stevenson

Alice Stevenson

Alice Stevenson was born at Piccadilly, England and became a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between the death of 112-year-old Josefa Salas Mateo on 27 February 1973 and Stevenson's own death, aged 112 years 39 days when she died at Sutton,...

. Thomas still holds the record for the oldest Welsh-born woman ever, although Welshman John Evans

John Evans (supercentenarian)

John Evans of Fforestfach, Swansea was the longest-lived authenticated man ever from the United Kingdom from 27 May 1989 until 29 March 2009, when Henry Allingham broke his record...

and English-born Anna Eliza Williams

Anna Eliza Williams

Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....

(who died in Wales) both lived longer.

Daisy Adams

Daisy Irene Adams (née Woodward; 30 June 1880 – 8 December 1993) was for about nine months the oldest person in the UK, between 17 March 1993 and her death on 8 December 1993. She was from Church Gresley

Church Gresley

Church Gresley is a village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is very close to the town of Swadlincote, between the town and Castle Gresley. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,805.The toponym "Gresley" is derived...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

. She died at the age of 113 years and 161 days, and outlived her husband and three of her five children. Her husband died at the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Adams was a teetotaler and ate little. Her son Ted put her longevity down to "living a quiet life".

Rebecca Hewison

Rebecca Hewison (née Ramsdale; 19 October 1881 – 22 September 1994) was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person living in Britain until her death aged 112 years, 338 days. Born in Grimsby

Grimsby

Grimsby is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996...

, Hewison was the fourth child of six born to Will, a timber merchant, and Betsy-Ann Ramsdale. She married George Hewison, a stonemason, in Grimsby in 1905. In 1938 she moved to be with her daughter Frances in North London. Later in 1963 the family moved to Berrynarbor

Berrynarbor

Berrynarbor is a village and civil parish in the North Devon district of Devon, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 749. The village is located near Exmoor and is about three miles east of Ilfracombe...

in Devon

Devon

Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

until Hewison was 105 when she returned to her hometown of Grimsby. In 1990 she met the Queen Mother

Queen mother

Queen Mother is a title or position reserved for a widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch. The term has been used in English since at least 1577...

at RAF Scampton

RAF Scampton

Royal Air Force Station Scampton is a Royal Air Force station situated north of Lincoln in England, near the village of Scampton, on the site of an old First World War landing field.-First World War:...

. She also was a supporter of Grimsby Town football club and met the team in 1991, the year she turned 100 and also the year that the team completed a second successive promotion. Hewison was also taken for flights in aeroplanes and helicopter

Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

s at Humberside Airport

Humberside Airport

-Cargo flights:Icelandair Cargo operate a weekly Sunday flight from Keflavík which then departs to Liege-Passenger statistics:-Bus service:An hourly daytime bus service runs from Grimsby and Hull to the airport from Monday to Saturday.-External links:**...

. She had enjoyed music since a young child and attributed her longevity to the occasional glass of lemon and port.

Lucy Jane Askew

Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was an English supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

and the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death at the age of 114 years and 92 days. Askew was born and died in Loughton

Loughton

Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located between 11 and 13 miles north east of Charing Cross in London, south of the M25 and west of the M11 motorway and has boundaries with Chingford, Waltham Abbey, Theydon Bois, Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill...

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

. She was born to Arthur George Askew and Susan Elizabeth Askew née Ellis, prosperous landowners. Lucy had five other siblings, all of whom she outlived, although three of them also lived past 100

Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...

. Askew never married and was a devout Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

. Askew moved into a nursing home when she was 106 and survived a leg operation at 108. She was in good health until shortly before her death when she died peacefully in her sleep. She attributed her longevity to a modest lifestyle.
Askew was the last person documented to have been born in 1883.

Louisa Shephard

Louisa Shephard née Williams (14 September 1898 – 19 January 2010) was, at the age of 111 years 127 days, a supercentenarian who became the last living person in Wales who was born in the 19th century and the Victorian Era

Victorian era

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...

. She became the second-oldest Welsh-born woman and the third-oldest person. She was also the third-oldest woman to die in Wales, and the fourth-oldest person. Therefore she was also the youngest Welsh supercentenarian and the only to die at age 111. At the time of her death, Shephard, of Blaenavon

Blaenavon

Blaenavon is a town and World Heritage Site in south eastern Wales, lying at the source of the Afon Lwyd north of Pontypool, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. The town lies high on a hillside and has a population of 6,349 people...

, was the third oldest person in the United Kingdom, and the oldest person in Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

following the death on 9 May 2007 of Victoria May Owen, who was 109 years and 335 days. She was one of the fifty oldest British people. She attributed her longevity to "hot milk with a dash of whiskey each evening".

Ethel Wood

Ethel Eliza Wood (born 16 January 1901 at St Sampson, Guernsey – 19 August 2011) from Kirby-le-Soken

Kirby-le-Soken

Kirby-le-Soken is a small village in the Tendring District of North East Essex, England, in an agricultural and increasingly residential corner of the county. Although the village has managed to stay distinct and separate from the growing conurbations of Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze , it...

, Essex was a British supercentenarian. At the age of , Wood was the ninth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish

Margaret Fish

Margaret Ethel Fish of Wilstead, Bedfordshire was the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Elsie Steele on 18 October 2010 until her own death on 12 March 2011, aged 112 years 5 days.She was born at Tower Hamlets and married Frank Fish, a World War I veteran, in...

on 12 March 2011. She was one of five children born to William and Lily Wood. Wood trained as a teacher in London prior to the German occupation of Guernsey. Like her siblings, she never married or had children. She moved to Essex in the 1990s to care for her younger sister, Edith. Wood lived in her own home until breaking her leg during a fall a month before her 110th birthday. She died suddenly on August 19th, 2011. If she had lived until December of that year, she would have surpased the only other supercententenarian from the Channel islands

Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...

, Margaret Ann Neve

Margaret Ann Neve

(1792 – 1903).http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/essex_amazing_ethel_celebrates_her_110th_birthday_1_776944 http://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/localnews/4860901.Kirby__Ethel_celebrates_109th_birthday/

Grace Jones

Grace Adelaide Jones (born 7 December 1899) of Bermondsey

Bermondsey

Bermondsey is an area in London on the south bank of the river Thames, and is part of the London Borough of Southwark. To the west lies Southwark, to the east Rotherhithe, and to the south, Walworth and Peckham.-Toponomy:...

, London, is an English supercentenarian

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

. At the age of , Jones is the second oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish

Margaret Fish

on 12 March 2011. She is also the youngest living person born in the 1800s.

Ellen Watson

Ellen Watson (née

NEE

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Thorpe; born 3 January 1900) from Croydon

Croydon

Croydon is a town in South London, England, located within the London Borough of Croydon to which it gives its name. It is situated south of Charing Cross...

is an English supercentenarian. At the age of , Watson is the third oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish

Margaret Fish

on 12 March 2011, and also the oldest verified living person born in the 1900s.

In 1959, along with her spouse and daughter and daughter's husband, they moved to Staines

Staines

Staines is a Thames-side town in the Spelthorne borough of Surrey and Greater London Urban Area, as well as the London Commuter Belt of South East England. It is a suburban development within the western bounds of the M25 motorway and located 17 miles west south-west of Charing Cross in...

.
Then they moved to with Mrs Watson's two grandchildren, Janet and Jonathan.

Mrs. Watson lived there for three and a half decades. Also in 1974, the same house where she and her husband celebrated their golden wedding. Her husband Samuel died a few days later due to a long-term illness.

In the mid 1990s, Watson moved into a care home.

She credits her longevity to a healthy lifestyle and laughter.

Ethel Lang

Ethel Lang (née Lancaster; born 27 May 1900) from Barnsley

Barnsley

Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster. Barnsley is surrounded by several smaller settlements which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, of which Barnsley is the largest and...

, South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

is an English supercentenarian. At the age of , Lang is the fifth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Gladys Good in October 2011. Lang was born at Worsbrough

Worsbrough

Worsbrough is an area about two miles south of Barnsley in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.-Geography:Worsbrough includes Worsbrough Bridge, Worsbrough Common, Worsbrough Dale, Worsbrough Village and Ward Green. The River Dove flows east-west through Worsbrough and...

, near Barnsley, to Charles and Sarah Lancaster and married William Lang in 1922. They had a daughter, Margaret, in 1923. Lang's mother lived to the age of 91 and her great-grandmother until 92.

Margaret Cooke

Margaret Tugela Cooke (née Butland; born 15 September 1900) from Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield

Beaconsfield is a market town and civil parish operating as a town council within the South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It lies northwest of Charing Cross in Central London, and south-east of the county town of Aylesbury...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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is an English supercentenarian. At the age of , Cooke is the sixth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Gladys Good in October 2011. http://beaconsfield.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2008/09/beaconsfields-oldest-resident.html http://beaconsfield.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/09/englands-fourth-oldest-residen.html http://www.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/south-buckinghamshire-news/local-buckinghamshire-advertiser-news/2010/09/23/one-of-england-s-oldest-woman-marks-110th-birthday-82398-27323388/

Esme Pearce

Irene Esme Pearce (née Lovett; born 5 January 1901) from Norwich

Norwich

Norwich is a city in England. It is the regional administrative centre and county town of Norfolk. During the 11th century, Norwich was the largest city in England after London, and one of the most important places in the kingdom...

is an English supercentenarian. At the age of , Pearce is the seventh oldest verified person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Gladys Good in October 2011 and the oldest verified living person born in the 20th century. http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/esme_celebrates_109th_birthday_1_486769

Ella Redmond

Ellaline Gladys "Ella" Redmond (née Perry; born 20 March 1901) from Bournemouth

Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

is an English supercentenarian. At the age of , Redmond is the ninth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom following the death of 111-year-old Gladys Good in October 2011.

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