People from the U.K. who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years
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[update], the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 154 British citizens who have become "supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. This number includes 23 emigrants who died in other nations.[1] The oldest known British person is Charlotte Hughes, who died in 1993 at the age of 115 years and 228 days.[1] The oldest man from the United Kingdom is Henry Allingham, who died in 2009 at the age of 113 years and 42 days.[1] As of 23 June 2024, the oldest person living in the United Kingdom is Ethel Caterham, born 21 August 1909, aged 114years, 307days.[2]
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.[33] 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.[33] She died in Tecumseh, aged 113 years and 65 days.[33]
Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person.[33] In 2002, researchers confirmed that she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards.[33][34] Baker would hold the title of world's oldest living person from Nancy Merriman's death on 14 January 1954[35] 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.[34]
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.[36][37]
Edith Ingamells
Edith 'Judy' Ingamells (née Gude; 12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006)[38] was the oldest person in the United Kingdom from December 2005 to March 2006.[39] 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.[40] 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".[41]
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This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records, and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.
Charlotte "Lotte" Kretschmann is a German supercentenarian and the oldest living person in Germany.
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