List of British supercentenarians

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This is a list of British supercentenarians (people from the United Kingdom who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The Gerontology Research Group (GRG), an organization that tracks supercentenarians and validates their age claims, has asserted that there have been approximately 140 verified supercentenarians from the United Kingdom, the oldest of whom was Charlotte Hughes who died at the age of 115 years, 228 days. The oldest man ever from the United Kingdom was Henry Allingham who died at the age of 113 years, 42 days.[1][2] As of 7 February 2019, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom is Grace Catherine Jones, born 16 September 1906, aged 112 years, 144 days.[3]

Living British supercentenarians[edit]

Below is a list of known living supercentenarians living in the United Kingdom.

No. Name Sex Birth date Age as of 7 February 2019 Country of birth Country of residence
1 Grace Catherine Jones[3] F 16 September 1906 112 years, 144 days England England
2 Hilda Clulow[4] F 15 March 1908 110 years, 329 days England England
3 Alfred Smith[5] M 29 March 1908 110 years, 315 days Scotland Scotland
Robert Weighton[5] M 29 March 1908 110 years, 315 days England England
5 Violet Davies-Evans[6] F 30 March 1908 110 years, 314 days England England
6 Daisy Bastin[7] F 3 May 1908 110 years, 280 days England England
7 Irene Sinclair[8] F 23 September 1908 110 years, 137 days Guyana England

100 oldest British people ever[edit]

  Deceased   Living
Unranked entries have not yet been validated by the GRG.
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 7 February 2019

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age [†] Country of birth Country of death
or residence
01 Charlotte Hughes[2] F 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days England England
02 Annie Jennings[2] F 12 November 1884 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days England England
03 Eva Morris[2] F 8 November 1885 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days England England
04 Ethel Lang[1] F 27 May 1900 15 January 2015 114 years, 233 days England England
05 Anna Eliza Williams[2] F 2 June 1873 27 December 1987 114 years, 208 days England Wales
06 Lucy Jane Askew[2] F 8 September 1883 9 December 1997 114 years, 92 days England England
07 Florrie Baldwin[9] F 31 March 1896 8 May 2010 114 years, 38 days England England
08 Amy Hulmes[2] F 5 October 1887 27 October 2001 114 years, 22 days England England
09 Grace Adelaide Jones[2] F 7 December 1899 14 November 2013 113 years, 342 days England England
10 Olive Boar[3] F 29 September 1904 28 August 2018 113 years, 333 days England England
11 Bessie Camm[3] F 20 June 1904 11 May 2018 113 years, 325 days England England
12 Rosa Ann Comfort[2] F 21 January 1879 6 November 1992 113 years, 290 days England England
13 Lucy d'Abreu[2] F 24 May 1892 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days India[a] Scotland
14 Gladys Hooper[2] F 18 January 1903 9 July 2016 113 years, 173 days England England
15 Daisy Adams[2] F 30 June 1880 8 December 1993 113 years, 161 days England England
16 Henry Allingham[10] M 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 113 years, 42 days England England
17 Annie Scott[2] F 15 March 1883 21 April 1996 113 years, 37 days Northern Ireland[b] Scotland
18 Ruby Gilliam[2] F 21 September 1885 22 October 1998 113 years, 31 days England England
19 Rebecca Hewison[2] F 19 October 1881 22 September 1994 112 years, 338 days England England
20 John Evans[2] M 19 August 1877 10 June 1990 112 years, 295 days Wales Wales
21 Alice Ducat[3] F 8 May 1905 22 December 2017 112 years, 228 days Scotland England
22 Nellie Bradley[2] F 12 September 1889 11 March 2002 112 years, 180 days England England
Violet Wood[11] F 2 September 1899 29 February 2012 112 years, 180 days England England
24 Grace Catherine Jones[12] F 16 September 1906 Living 112 years, 144 days England England
25 Gladys Ivy Hawley[2] F 18 December 1891 28 April 2004 112 years, 132 days England England
26 Annie Butler[3] F 4 June 1897 28 September 2009 112 years, 116 days England England
27 Kathleen McManners[1] F 6 July 1901 20 September 2013 112 years, 76 days England England
28 Florence Pittaway[3] F 15 October 1902 21 December 2014 112 years, 67 days England England
29 Mary Ann Hebden[2] F 4 October 1893 30 November 2005 112 years, 57 days England England
30 Edith Ingamells[2] F 12 January 1894 1 March 2006 112 years, 48 days England England
31 Alice Stevenson[2] F 10 July 1861 18 August 1973 112 years, 39 days England England
32 Jeanetta Thomas[2] F 2 December 1869 5 January 1982 112 years, 34 days Wales Wales
33 Margaret Fish[13] F 7 March 1899 12 March 2011 112 years, 5 days England England
34 Annie Price[2] F 12 January 1886 26 December 1997 111 years, 348 days Wales England
35 Annie Turnbull[3] F 21 September 1898 3 September 2010 111 years, 347 days Scotland Scotland
Ellen Watson[13] F 3 January 1900 16 December 2011 111 years, 347 days England England
37 Ellaline Redmond[1] F 20 March 1901 27 February 2013 111 years, 344 days England England
38 Ada Roe[2] F 6 February 1858 11 January 1970 111 years, 339 days England England
39 Eunice Bowman[3] F 23 August 1898 26 July 2010 111 years, 337 days England England
40 Helen Haward[2] F 24 November 1884 23 October 1996 111 years, 334 days England England
41 Dorothy Baldwin[3] F 8 February 1902 1 January 2014 111 years, 327 days England England
42 Mary Ann Fewster[2] F 6 February 1878 26 December 1989 111 years, 323 days England England
43 Florence Pannell[2] F 26 December 1868 20 October 1980 111 years, 299 days England England
Edith Kaufmann[3] F 12 December 1903 7 October 2015 111 years, 299 days Austria-Hungary[c] England
45 Rose Hart[2] F 20 March 1878 5 January 1990 111 years, 291 days England England
46 Ivy Frampton[3] F 22 November 1903 5 September 2015 111 years, 287 days England England
47 Elsie Steele[9] F 6 January 1899 18 October 2010 111 years, 285 days England England
48 John Mosely Turner[2] M 15 June 1856 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days England England
49 Dorothy Peel[3] F 28 September 1902 24 June 2014 111 years, 269 days England England
50 Irene Pearce[11] F 5 January 1901 6 September 2012 111 years, 245 days England England
51 Kate Begbie[2] F 9 January 1877 5 September 1988 111 years, 240 days England Scotland
52 Hermione Cock[3] F 1 March 1904 24 October 2015 111 years, 237 days England England
53 Louisa Aspland[2] F 5 March 1888 21 October 1999 111 years, 230 days England England
54 Gladys Good[13] F 12 March 1900 24 October 2011 111 years, 226 days England Wales
55 Annie Bannell[2] F 12 February 1882 10 September 1993 111 years, 210 days England England
56 Elizabeth Jones[2] F 20 August 1888 10 March 2000 111 years, 203 days England England
57 Florence Reeves[2] F 17 February 1894 28 August 2005 111 years, 192 days England England
58 Margaret Cooke[11] F 15 September 1900 18 March 2012 111 years, 185 days England England
59 Victoria Southan[13] F 24 May 1900 22 November 2011 111 years, 182 days England England
60 Florence Deuchar[2] F 18 February 1882 16 August 1993 111 years, 179 days England England
Mabel Frary[2] F 16 September 1892 13 March 2004 111 years, 179 days England England
62 Annie Knight[2] F 6 June 1895 27 November 2006 111 years, 174 days Scotland Scotland
63 Emmeline Brice[2] F 9 March 1895 26 July 2006 111 years, 139 days England England
64 Aida Mason[2] F 24 September 1895 9 February 2007 111 years, 138 days England England
65 Emily Calvert[2] F 30 August 1893 13 January 2005 111 years, 136 days England England
66 Annie Meston[3] F 12 November 1903 22 March 2015 111 years, 130 days England England
67 Louisa Shephard[3] F 14 September 1898 19 January 2010 111 years, 127 days Wales Wales
68 Constance Shepherd[2] F 16 February 1893 19 June 2004 111 years, 124 days England England
69 Rose Heeley[2] F 25 August 1864 24 December 1975 111 years, 121 days England England
70 Annie Townsend[2] F 20 May 1883 11 September 1994 111 years, 114 days England England
71 Jane Redpath[2] F 3 March 1889 16 June 2000 111 years, 105 days Scotland Scotland
72 Alma Rayward[3] F 3 October 1903 15 January 2015 111 years, 104 days England England
73 Doris Prater[2] F 26 October 1893 21 January 2005 111 years, 87 days England England
74 Catherine Masters[13] F 23 November 1899 14 February 2011 111 years, 83 days Scotland England
75 Maud Ellis[11] F 28 September 1901 14 December 2012 111 years, 77 days England England
76 Elsie Ward[9] F 24 July 1899 21 September 2010 111 years, 59 days England England
77 Harry Patch[10] M 17 June 1898 25 July 2009 111 years, 38 days England England
78 Maria Pettigrew[14] F 27 October 1893 26 November 2004 111 years, 30 days Scotland Scotland
79 Alice Brewster[2] F 16 September 1871 9 October 1982 111 years, 23 days England England
80 Sarah Morgan[2] F 23 January 1867 12 February 1978 111 years, 20 days England England
Lilian Wignall[15] F 1 October 1907 12 October 2018 111 years, 11 days England England
81 Isabella Brown[13] F 29 January 1900 24 January 2011 110 years, 360 days Northern Ireland[b] England
82 Florence Green[11] F 19 February 1901 4 February 2012 110 years, 350 days England England
Hilda Clulow[4] F 15 March 1908 Living 110 years, 329 days England England
83 Margaret Ann Neve[2] F 18 May 1792 4 April 1903 110 years, 321 days Guernsey Guernsey
Alfred Smith[5] M 29 March 1908 Living 110 years, 315 days Scotland Scotland
Robert Weighton[5] M 29 March 1908 Living 110 years, 315 days England England
Violet Davies-Evans[6] F 30 March 1908 Living 110 years, 314 days England England
84 Winifred Pettit[2] F 1 November 1887 10 September 1998 110 years, 313 days England England
85 Charlotte Gibson[2] F 2 April 1896 5 February 2007 110 years, 309 days England England
86 Vera Kift[2] F 8 April 1894 26 January 2005 110 years, 293 days England England
87 Elsie Day[2] F 16 December 1885 26 September 1996 110 years, 285 days England England
Daisy Bastin[7] F 3 May 1908 Living 110 years, 280 days England England
88 Jessamine Nicholls[2] F 25 January 1892 30 October 2002 110 years, 278 days England England
89 Christina Morrison[2] F 22 October 1895 25 July 2006 110 years, 276 days Scotland Scotland
90 Ethel Gale[2] F 26 April 1888 26 January 1999 110 years, 275 days England England
91 Ethel Tuck[2] F 16 August 1881 15 May 1992 110 years, 273 days England England
92 Constance Young[16] F 1 November 1869 27 July 1980 110 years, 269 days England England
93 Sarah Ann Raw[2] F 20 December 1873 10 September 1984 110 years, 265 days England England
94 Kate Jones[2] F 3 April 1880 22 December 1990 110 years, 263 days England England
95 Florence Cox[2] F 24 October 1895 7 July 2006 110 years, 256 days England England
96 Mary Ann Poole[2] F 31 May 1887 2 February 1998 110 years, 247 days England England
97 Jean Einstein[2] F 11 April 1896 8 December 2006 110 years, 241 days Wales England
98 Janet Roberts[11] F 13 August 1901 6 April 2012 110 years, 237 days Scotland Scotland
99 Elizabeth Watkins[2] F 10 March 1863 31 October 1973 110 years, 235 days Northern Ireland[b] England
100 Mary Brown[17] F 5 September 1897 24 April 2008 110 years, 232 days Scotland England

British emigrant supercentenarians 112+[edit]

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age [†] Country of birth Country of death
01 Grace Clawson[2] F 15 November 1887 28 May 2002 114 years, 194 days England United States
02 Miriam Carpelan[18] F 8 July 1882 22 June 1996 113 years, 350 days England United States
03 Florence Finch[2] F 22 December 1893 10 April 2007 113 years, 109 days England New Zealand
04 Betsy Baker[2] F 20 August 1842 24 October 1955 113 years, 65 days England United States
05 Alice Sjöquist[18] F 25 October 1878 7 November 1991 113 years, 13 days England Canada
06 Henrietta Irwin[3] F 27 May 1906 15 January 2019 112 years, 233 days Northern Ireland[b] Canada
07 Margaret Vivian[3] F 25 February 1906 20 September 2018 112 years, 207 days Scotland Australia
08 Amelia England[11] F 15 May 1900 30 November 2012 112 years, 199 days England United States
09 Jane Gray[1] F 1 December 1901 7 June 2014 112 years, 188 days Scotland Australia
10 Mary Ellen Swan[2] F 24 June 1892 10 August 2004 112 years, 47 days England Canada

Biographies[edit]

Betsy Baker[edit]

Betsy Baker (August 20, 1842 – October 24, 1955) was born Betsy Ann Russell in Great Brington, England, emigrated to the United States, settled in Nebraska, and became the world's oldest person.[19] She lived for 65 years in Johnson County, where she was called "the Queen mother of the Johnson County Fair" in 1953. At age 107, she received a congratulations letter from president Harry S. Truman. She was featured upon her 112th birthday in the US Army magazine Stars and Stripes.[19] She died in Tecumseh, aged 113 years and 65 days.[19]

Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by Guinness World Records as the world's then-oldest person.[19] In 2002, researchers confirmed she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards for an unknown period of time prior to her death in 1955.[19][20] She was the second person in the world (after Delina Filkins) to have reached the age of 113 and to have been validated by modern standards.[20]

Jeanetta Thomas[edit]

Jeanetta Jane Thomas (2 December 1869 – 5 January 1982)[2] of Llantrisant, Wales, was a British supercentenarian and was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records in the 1980s. She was a child of quarry owning parents.[21] Thomas spent her youth in London working as a seamstress. At the age of around 40, she returned to Wales to open a drapery shop, which she ran until the age of 98.[22] 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.

From the age of 107, Thomas resided at a nursing home at Cowbridge, Wales.[22] A photograph of her, which was taken the day before her 112th birthday, appeared in The Times. Had Thomas lived another six days, she would have broken the British longevity record which at that time was held by Alice Stevenson. Thomas still holds the record for the oldest Welsh-born woman ever, although Welshman John Evans and English-born Anna Eliza Williams (who died in Wales) both lived longer.[citation needed]

Daisy Adams[edit]

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, Derbyshire. She died at the age of 113 years and 161 days, and outlived her husband and three of her five children. Her husband died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, meaning that she was widowed in her thirties. Adams was a teetotaler and ate little. Her son Ted put her longevity down to "living a quiet life".[23]

Rebecca Hewison[edit]

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.[24] Born in Grimsby, 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 in Devon until Hewison was 105 when she returned to her hometown of Grimsby. In 1990 she met the Queen Mother at RAF Scampton. She also was a supporter of Grimsby Town football club and met the team in 1991, the year she turned 110 and also the year that the team completed a second successive promotion. Hewison was also taken for flights in aeroplanes and helicopters at Humberside Airport.[citation needed]

Lucy Jane Askew[edit]

Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was an English supercentenarian 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, Essex. 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. Askew never married and was a devout Christian. 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.[25][26]

Amy Hulmes[edit]

Amy Isabel Hulmes née Matthews (5 October 1887 – 27 October 2001)[27] from Bury, Greater Manchester, England, was a British supercentenarian who became the oldest person in Britain after the death of Eva Morris in November 2000, until her death at the age of 114 years and 22 days.[27] She was also thought to be the oldest person in the world, before the discovery of Maude Farris-Luse who was nine months older. Hulmes was the youngest of nine children, and gave up smoking at the age of 84. She could reportedly still touch her toes at the age of 105.[28][29]

Edith Ingamells[edit]

Edith 'Judy' Ingamells (née Gude; 12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006)[30] was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom, following the death of 113-year-old Lucy d'Abreu on 7 December 2005, until her death aged 112 years 48 days. Judy's successor as the UK's oldest living person was Emmeline Brice.[31]

Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, Ingamells, nicknamed "Judy", moved to Enfield, London at the beginning of the Second World War, where she married a florist, Percy, who worked for a family firm based in Covent Garden. She lived in other areas around England, and worked as a milliner before coming back to settle in Enfield in 1990. Ingamells had three daughters, five grandchildren, four great-grand children and two great-great-grandchildren. When serenaded with wartime songs on her 112th birthday, Ingamells responded "I don't like war songs. Who wants to remember something as horrible as the war?".[30] The secret to Ingamells' longevity, said daughter Pat Bull at the time of her 111th birthday, was to "never look back, always look forward, which she is certainly doing".[32]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
  2. ^ a b c d Government of Ireland Act 1920: The whole of the island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom before 1921.
  3. ^ Kaufmann was born in Děčín, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.

References[edit]

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo GRG Verified Supercentenarian Cases - United Kingdom (As of 16 April 2007) Retrieved 11 May 2011.
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  9. ^ a b c GRG Deaths for 2010 (in Chronological Order) (as of 10 April 2011) Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  10. ^ a b GRG Deaths for 2009 (in Chronological Order) (as of 24 December 2010) Retrieved 11 May 2011.
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  14. ^ GRG Deaths for 2004 (in Chronological Order) (Last Updated 6 July 2011) Retrieved 6 July 2011.
  15. ^ Mack, Tom (16 October 2018). "Leicestershire's oldest person Lilian Wignall dies days after her 111th birthday". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  16. ^ "GRG Table B2". grg.org. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  17. ^ GRG Deaths for 2008 (in Chronological Order) (as of 12 May 2011) Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 May 2011.
  18. ^ a b GRG Validated Supercentenarian Cases (Public List) as of 6 October 2009 Retrieved 11 May 2011.
  19. ^ a b c d e Kral, E.A. "Nebraska's centenarians age 107 or above — 1867 to 2001" (PDF). Nebraska Health Care Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  20. ^ a b Kral, E.A. (7 May 2010). "NEHCA list of Nebraska supercentenarians" (PDF). Nebraska Health Care Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2012.
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  28. ^ Ward, David (14 June 2001). "Accolades for a stout survivor from the Victorian era". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2009.
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  32. ^ Southern, Kate (20 January 2005). "Judy, 111, is the greatest gran". Enfield Independent. Retrieved 28 June 2006.
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