Henry Allingham (1896–2009) was a First World War veteran and is the longest-lived British man ever, at 113 years and 42 days. Pictured in 2006, aged 110.

As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 154 British citizens who have become "supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. This number including 23 emigrants who died in other nations.[1] The oldest known British person ever is Charlotte Hughes, who died in 1993 at the age of 115 years and 228 days.[1] The oldest man ever from the United Kingdom is Henry Allingham, who died in 2009 at the age of 113 years and 42 days.[1] As of 13 January 2024, the oldest person living in the United Kingdom is Ethel Caterham, born 21 August 1909, aged 114 years, 145 days.[2]

100 oldest British people ever

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Birthplace Place of death
or residence
1 Charlotte Hughes[3] F 1 August 1877 17 March 1993 115 years, 228 days England England
2 Annie Jennings[3] F 12 November 1884 20 November 1999 115 years, 8 days England England
3 Eva Morris[3] F 8 November 1885 2 November 2000 114 years, 360 days England England
4 Ethel Lang[4] F 27 May 1900 15 January 2015 114 years, 233 days England England
5 Anna Eliza Williams[3] F 2 June 1873 27 December 1987 114 years, 208 days England Wales
6 Grace Clawson[3] F 15 November 1887 28 May 2002 114 years, 194 days England United States
7 Ethel Caterham[2] F 21 August 1909 Living 114 years, 145 days England England
8 Lucy Jane Askew[3] F 8 September 1883 9 December 1997 114 years, 92 days England England
9 Phyllis Ridgway[4] F 10 March 1907 4 June 2021 114 years, 86 days England Canada
10 Florrie Baldwin[3] F 31 March 1896 8 May 2010 114 years, 38 days England England
11 Amy Hulmes[3] F 5 October 1887 27 October 2001 114 years, 22 days England England
12 Miriam Carpelan[3] F 8 July 1882 22 June 1996 113 years, 350 days England United States
13 Grace Adelaide Jones[3] F 7 December 1899 14 November 2013 113 years, 342 days England England
14 Olive Boar[4] F 29 September 1904 28 August 2018 113 years, 333 days England England
15 Bessie Camm[4] F 20 June 1904 11 May 2018 113 years, 325 days England England
16 Rosa Ann Comfort[3] F 21 January 1879 6 November 1992 113 years, 290 days England England
17 Lucy d'Abreu[3] F 24 May 1892 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days British Raj[lower-alpha 1] Scotland
18 Gladys Hooper[3] F 18 January 1903 9 July 2016 113 years, 173 days England England
19 Daisy Adams[3] F 30 June 1880 8 December 1993 113 years, 161 days England England
20 Kathleen Snavely[4] F 16 February 1902 6 July 2015 113 years, 140 days Ireland[lower-alpha 2] United States
21 Florence Finch[3] F 22 December 1893 10 April 2007 113 years, 109 days England New Zealand
22 Betsy Baker[3] F 20 August 1842 24 October 1955 113 years, 65 days England United States
23 Rose Eaton[5] F 23 August 1909 7 October 2022 113 years, 45 days England England
24 Henry Allingham[3] M 6 June 1896 18 July 2009 113 years, 42 days England England
25 Annie Scott[3] F 15 March 1883 21 April 1996 113 years, 37 days Ireland[lower-alpha 2] Scotland
26 Ruby Gilliam[3] F 21 September 1885 22 October 1998 113 years, 31 days England England
27 Alice Sjöquist[3] F 25 October 1878 7 November 1991 113 years, 13 days England Canada
28 Fanny Martland[6] F 19 November 1888 1 December 2001 113 years, 12 days England Canada
29 Mary "Mollie" Walker, MBE[7][8] F 5 February 1909 22 January 2022 112 years, 351 days Wales England
30 Rachel Wieselberg[9] F 23 June 1883 6 June 1996 112 years, 349 days Russian Empire[lower-alpha 3] England
31 Rebecca Hewison[3] F 19 October 1881 22 September 1994 112 years, 338 days England England
32 Edna Strickland[2] F 6 March 1911 Living 112 years, 313 days England England
33 John Evans[3] M 19 August 1877 10 June 1990 112 years, 295 days Wales Wales
34 Grace Catherine Jones[4][10] F 16 September 1906 7 June 2019 112 years, 264 days England England
35 Henrietta Irwin[4] F 27 May 1906 15 January 2019 112 years, 233 days Ireland[lower-alpha 2] Canada
36 Alice Ducat[4] F 8 May 1905 22 December 2017 112 years, 228 days Scotland England
37 Lilian Priest[11] F 7 November 1908 6 June 2021[12] 112 years, 211 days Wales England
38 Joan Hocquard[13] F 29 March 1908 24 October 2020[14] 112 years, 209 days England England
39 Margaret Vivian[4] F 25 February 1906 20 September 2018 112 years, 207 days Scotland Australia
40 Amelia England[3] F 15 May 1900 30 November 2012 112 years, 199 days England United States
41 Jane Gray[4] F 1 December 1901 7 June 2014 112 years, 188 days Scotland Australia
42 Nellie Bradley[3] F 12 September 1889 11 March 2002 112 years, 180 days England England
Violet Wood[3] F 2 September 1899 29 February 2012 England England
44 Gertrude Annie Kingston[15] F 1 February 1909 28 July 2021 112 years, 177 days England England
45 Mary Roberts[16] F 5 October 1906 11 March 2019 112 years, 157 days Wales Canada
46 Mary Florence Walker[2] F 28 August 1911 Living 112 years, 138 days England England
47 Gladys Ivy Hawley[3] F 18 December 1891 28 April 2004 112 years, 132 days England England
48 Annie Butler[4] F 4 June 1897 28 September 2009 112 years, 116 days England England
49 Ada Thompson[2] F 28 November 1910 13 March 2023 112 years, 105 days England England
50 Leonora Cox[4] F 30 December 1907 6 April 2020 112 years, 98 days England United States
51 Kathleen McManners[3] F 6 July 1901 20 September 2013 112 years, 76 days England England
52 Dorothy Gwendoline Payne[17] F 5 August 1907 15 October 2019 112 years, 71 days England England
53 Florence Pittaway[4] F 15 October 1902 21 December 2014 112 years, 67 days England England
54 Robert Weighton[4][18] M 29 March 1908 28 May 2020 112 years, 60 days England England
55 Mary Ann Hebden[3] F 4 October 1893 30 November 2005 112 years, 57 days England England
56 Edith Ingamells[3] F 12 January 1894 1 March 2006 112 years, 48 days England England
57 Mary Ellen Swan[3] F 24 June 1892 10 August 2004 112 years, 47 days England Canada
58 Alice Stevenson[3] F 10 July 1861 18 August 1973 112 years, 39 days England England
59 Violet Davies-Evans[19] F 30 March 1908 5 May 2020 112 years, 36 days England England
60 Jeanetta Thomas[3] F 2 December 1869 5 January 1982 112 years, 34 days Wales Wales
61 Margaret Fish[3] F 7 March 1899 12 March 2011 112 years, 5 days England England
62 Annie Price[3] F 12 January 1886 26 December 1997 111 years, 348 days Wales England
63 Annie Turnbull[4] F 21 September 1898 3 September 2010 111 years, 347 days Scotland Scotland
Ellen Watson[3] F 3 January 1900 16 December 2011 England England
65 Ellaline Redmond[3] F 20 March 1901 27 February 2013 111 years, 344 days England England
66 Margaret Taylor[20] F 21 April 1875 30 March 1987 111 years, 343 days Scotland United States
67 Ada Roe[3] F 6 February 1858 11 January 1970 111 years, 339 days England England
68 Helen Haward[3] F 24 November 1884 23 October 1996 111 years, 334 days England England
69 Katherine Plunket[3] F 22 November 1820 14 October 1932 111 years, 327 days Ireland[lower-alpha 2] Ireland
Eunice Bowman[4] F 23 August 1898 16 July 2010 England England
Dorothy Baldwin[4] F 8 February 1902 1 January 2014 England England
72 Mary Ann Fewster[3] F 6 February 1878 26 December 1989 111 years, 323 days England England
73 Mary Keir[21] F 3 March 1912 Living 111 years, 316 days Wales Wales
74 Jennie Howell[3] F 11 February 1845 16 December 1956 111 years, 309 days England United States
75 Arthur Nash[22] M 7 January 1885 4 November 1996 111 years, 302 days England Canada
76 Florence Pannell[3] F 26 December 1868 20 October 1980 111 years, 299 days England England
Edith Kaufmann[4] F 12 December 1903 7 October 2015 Austria-Hungary[lower-alpha 4] England
78 Matilde Coulter[23] F 30 March 1909 19 January 2021 111 years, 295 days Italy England
79 Rose Hart[3] F 20 March 1878 5 January 1990 111 years, 291 days England England
80 Ivy Frampton[4] F 22 November 1903 5 September 2015 111 years, 287 days England England
81 Elsie Steele[3] F 6 January 1899 18 October 2010 111 years, 285 days England England
82 Hilda May Clulow[24] F 15 March 1908 24 December 2019[25] 111 years, 284 days England England
83 John Mosley Turner[3] M 15 June 1856 21 March 1968 111 years, 280 days England England
84 Lizzie Beevers[26] F 7 November 1884 4 August 1996 111 years, 271 days England England
85 Dorothy Peel[4] F 28 September 1902 24 June 2014 111 years, 269 days England England
86 Anna Tocher[27] F 24 November 1873 1 August 1985 111 years, 250 days Scotland United States
87 Irene Pearce[3] F 17 May 1900 17 January 2012 111 years, 245 days England England
Avice Clarke[3] F 5 January 1901 6 September 2012 England United States
89 Daisy Bastin[28] F 3 May 1908 2 January 2020[29] 111 years, 244 days England England
90 Kate Begbie[3] F 9 January 1877 5 September 1988 111 years, 240 days England Scotland
91 Hermione Cock[4] F 1 March 1904 24 October 2015 111 years, 237 days England England
92 Marion Sawyer[3] F 5 July 1901 26 February 2013 111 years, 236 days England United States
93 Louisa Aspland[3] F 5 March 1888 21 October 1999 111 years, 230 days England England
94 Gladys Good[3] F 12 March 1900 24 October 2011 111 years, 226 days England Wales
95 Annie Bannell[3] F 12 February 1882 10 September 1993 111 years, 210 days England England
96 Elizabeth Jones[3] F 20 August 1888 10 March 2000 111 years, 203 days England England
97 Jeanie Oliver[30] F 17 August 1880 1 March 1992 111 years, 197 days Wales United States
Jane Webster[31] F 17 April 1906 31 October 2017 Ireland[lower-alpha 2] England
99 Florence Reeves[3] F 17 February 1894 28 August 2005 111 years, 192 days England England
100 Margaret Cooke[3] F 15 September 1900 18 March 2012 111 years, 185 days England England

Biographies

Betsy Baker

Betsy Ann Baker (née Russell; born August 20, 1842 – October 24, 1955) was born in Great Brington, Northamptonshire in England, immigrated to the United States, settled in Nebraska, and became the world's oldest person.[32] 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 congratulatory letter from president Harry S. Truman. On her 112th birthday, she was featured in the US Army magazine Stars and Stripes.[32] She died in Tecumseh, aged 113 years and 65 days.[32]

Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person.[32] In 2002, researchers confirmed that she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards.[32][33] Baker would hold the title of world's oldest living person from Nancy Merriman's death on 14 January 1954[34] until her own death in 1955. She was the second well-documented person in the world to have reached the age of 113, after Delina Filkins.[33]

Lucy Jane Askew

Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death, aged 114 years and 92 days. She was born in Loughton, Essex, to Arthur George Askew and Susan Elizabeth Askew née Ellis. Her parents were prosperous cartage contractors, cab proprietors, and landowners. She had five siblings, of whom three also lived past 100. Askew lived all her life in Loughton, and never married. She was a devout Christian, attending the Loughton Union Church. She moved into a nursing home at 106 and survived a leg operation at 108. She remained in good health and died peacefully in her sleep. She attributed her longevity to a modest lifestyle.[35][36]

Edith Ingamells

Edith 'Judy' Ingamells (née Gude; 12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006)[37] was the oldest person in the United Kingdom from December 2005 to March 2006.[38] She was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, to George and Harriet Gude. According to census documents, George worked as a photographer in 1901 and a public caterer in 1911. She moved to Enfield, Middlesex, at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and married Percy Ingamells, a wholesale florist.[39] They had three daughters, born between 1915 and 1925. Ingamells lived in other areas around England, and worked as a milliner before settling back in Enfield in 1990.

Her daughter, Patricia Bull, said, at the time of Ingemells' 111th birthday, that the secret of her longevity was to "never look back, always look forward, which she is certainly doing".[40]

Ethel Caterham

Ethel May Caterham (née Collins; born 21 August 1909) is the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and the last born in the 1900s decade. She is the last surviving subject of King Edward VII.[41]

She was born in Shipton Bellinger in 1909 and was raised in Tidworth. Her sister, Gladys Babilas (1897–2002), lived to 104.[41] She went on a voyage to British India in 1927 and worked as an au pair to a military family there until she was 21.[41][42] After returning to England, she married Norman Caterham, who would go on to serve in the Royal Army Pay Corps.[42] This saw the couple travel to several parts of the world, including Hong Kong, where Ethel set up a nursery to teach English, crafts and games. They also travelled to Gibraltar, where they started their family; they raised two daughters back in England. Norman died in 1976.[41]

Caterham has lived in Surrey for over 50 years and presently resides in a care home in Ash Vale. She drove until she was 97 and enjoyed playing contract bridge in her centenarian years.[42] She survived COVID-19 in 2020, aged 110,[41] and was visited by the Mayor of Surrey Heath on her 111th birthday in August. Shortly before her 111th birthday, she and her granddaughter were interviewed by BBC Radio Surrey, where she said her secret to her longevity was "taking everything in my stride, the highs and the lows."[43]

Caterham became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom upon the death of 112-year-old Mary "Mollie" Walker MBE on 22 January 2022. She turned 113 in August of that year, becoming the first person in Britain to do so since Olive Boar in 2017. On 7 October 2022, upon the death of 113-year-old Rose Eaton, Caterham became the last British person born before 1910. Since the death of Lucile Randon of France on 17 January 2023, she has been the second-oldest person in Europe, after Spain's Maria Branyas—the world's oldest living person. Caterham is, however, the oldest living European-born person, as Branyas was born in the United States.[41]

Notes

  1. ↑ d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Government of Ireland Act 1920: The whole of the island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom before 1921.
  3. ↑ Wieselberg was born in Riga, which was then part of the Russian Empire. It is now the capital of Latvia.
  4. ↑ Kaufmann was born in Děčín, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.

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