List of British supercentenarians

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This is an incomplete list of British supercentenarians (people who have attained the age of at least 110 years 0 days), ordered by date of birth.

Contents 1 Top 20 Oldest Britons Ever 2 Territorial Records 3 People 3.1 Margaret Ann Neve 3.2 John Mosely Turner 3.3 Hannah Smith 3.4 Ada Roe 3.5 Alice Stevenson 3.6 Frederick Butterfield 3.7 Janetta Jane Thomas 3.8 Anna Eliza Williams 3.9 Kate Begbie 3.10 Charlotte Hughes 3.11 John Evans 3.12 Daisy Adams 3.13 Rebecca Hewison 3.14 Lucy Askew 3.15 Annie Jennings 3.16 Eva Morris 3.17 Florrie Baldwin 3.18 Charlotte Gibson 4 References

[edit] Top 20 Oldest Britons Ever

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age	Country
1	Charlotte Hughes	F	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days[1]	England
2	Annie Jennings	F	12 November 1884	20 November 1999	115 years, 8 days[1]	England
3	Eva Morris	F	8 November 1885	2 November 2000	114 years, 360 days[1]	England
4	Anna Eliza Williams	F	2 June 1873	27 December 1987	114 years, 208 days[1]	England  Wales
5	Grace Clawson	F	15 November 1887	28 May 2002	114 years, 194 days[1]	England  United States
6	Lucy Jane Askew	F	8 September 1883	9 December 1997	114 years, 92 days[1]	England
7	Amy Isabel Hulmes	F	5 October 1887	27 October 2001	114 years, 22 days[1]	England
8	Rosa Ann Comfort	F	21 January 1879	6 November 1992	113 years, 290 days[1]	England
9	Lucy d'Abreu	F	24 May 1892	7 December 2005	113 years, 197 days[1]	India  Scotland
10	Daisy Adams	F	30 June 1880	8 December 1993	113 years, 161 days[1]	England
11	Florence Finch	F	22 December 1893	10 April 2007	113 years, 109 days[1]	England  New Zealand
12	Betsy Baker	F	20 August 1842	24 October 1955	113 years, 65 days[1]	England  United States
13	Annie Scott	F	15 March 1883	21 April 1996	113 years, 37 days[1]	Northern Ireland  Scotland
14	Rebecca Hewison	F	19 October 1881	22 September 1994	112 years, 338 days[1]	England
15	John Evans	M	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days[1]	Wales
16	Nellie Bradley	F	12 September 1889	11 March 2002	112 years, 180 days[1]	England
17	Gladys Hawley	F	18 December 1891	28 April 2004	112 years, 132 days[1]	England
18	Florrie Baldwin	F	31 March 1896	Living	&0000000000000112.000000112 years, &0000000000000072.00000072 days [2]	England
19	Mary Ann Hebden	F	4 October 1893	30 November 2005	112 years, 57 days[1]	England
20	Judy Ingamells	F	12 January 1894	1 March 2006	112 years, 48 days[1]	England

[edit] Territorial Records

Place of Birth	Name	Sex	Birth	Death	Age
England	Charlotte Hughes	F	1 August 1877	17 March 1993	115 years, 228 days[1]
	Henry Allingham	M	6 June 1896	Living	&0000000000000112.000000112 years, &0000000000000005.0000005 days[2]
Northern Ireland	Annie Scott	F	15 March 1883	21 April 1996	113 years, 37 days[1]
Scotland	Kate Begbie	F	9 January 1877	5 September 1988	111 years, 240 days[1]
Wales	John Evans	M	19 August 1877	10 June 1990	112 years, 295 days[1]
Guernsey	Margaret Ann Neve	F	18 May 1792	4 April 1903	110 years, 321 days[1]

[edit] People

[edit] Margaret Ann Neve

Margaret Ann Neve, née Harvey (May 18, 1792 – 4 April 1903), of Guernsey was the first recorded female supercentenarian, and the first of either gender in the 20th century. She was the oldest person in the world at the time of her death (aged 110 years and 321 days) and also the oldest person ever at that point in time, if the disputed case of Thomas Peters is discounted. Either way, she was surpassed by Louisa Thiers in 1925, but she is still the only ever supercentenarian from the Channel Islands and one of the few recorded persons who lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Preceded by Geert Adriaans Boomgaard

Undisputed Oldest Recorded Person Ever October 1, 1902 – August 19, 1925

Succeeded by Louisa Thiers

[edit] John Mosely Turner

John Mosely Turner (June 15, 1856 – March 21, 1968) from Mitcham in the UK was a supercentenarian and the world's oldest person for the last two years of his life. He was first listed in the 1964 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as Britain's oldest man, and was in fact the oldest man in the world. He surpassed Geert Adriaans Boomgaard and Demetrius Philipovitch in 1967, and the disputed case of James Henry Brett, Jr. in 1968, to become the oldest man ever, unless Thomas Peters is considered validated. Turner's record was allegedly broken by Shigechiyo Izumi in 1977 and Mathew Beard in 1982, but these cases are also disputed, and so it may have been Alphaeus Philemon Cole who surpassed him, as late as 1988.

Preceded by Geert Adriaans Boomgaard	Undisputed Oldest Recorded Man Ever October 29, 1966 – April 17, 1988	Succeeded by Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Preceded by Hannah Smith	Oldest Recognized Living Person January 10, 1966 – March 21, 1968	Succeeded by Johanna Booyson
Preceded by Title began in 1964	Oldest Recognized Living Man – March 21, 1968	Succeeded by Khasako Dzugayev

[edit] Hannah Smith

Hannah Smith (Salford, England, January 7, 1856 – Sheffield, England, January 10, 1966) was a British supercentenarian and oldest recognised living person in the world when she died at 110 years and 3 days. She was listed in the 1967 Guinness Book of Records.

[edit] Ada Roe

Ada Giddings Roe (Islington, England, February 6, 1858 – Lowestoft, England, January 11, 1970) was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognized living person in the world between around October 1968 and her death aged almost 112. She was the last documented person born in the 1850s.

[edit] Alice Stevenson

Alice Stevenson (Piccadilly, England, July 10, 1861 – Sutton, England, August 18, 1973) was a British supercentenarian. She was the oldest recognised living person in the world between February 27, 1973 and her death, aged 112 years and 39 days.

[edit] Frederick Butterfield

Frederick Butterfield (February 28, 1864 – March 9, 1974) of Harrogate, England became the world's oldest man on 5 May 1973.^{[citation needed]} He was followed by Shigechiyo Izumi, but unlike his successor, his age is not open to doubt.^{[citation needed][original research?]} He retired from Pharmacy at the age of 99, according to the 1974 Guinness Book of Records.

[edit] Janetta Jane Thomas

Janetta Jane Thomas (December 2, 1869 – January 5, 1982) of Llantrisant, Wales, was a British Supercentenarian and was mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records in the 1980s. Thomas was the last surviving person in the UK to have been born in the 1860s and from October 20, 1980 to her death in an old people's home at Cowbridge, Wales, aged 112 years and 34 days, was the oldest living person within the United Kingdom. A photograph of her, which was taken the day before her 112th birthday, appeared in The Times. Had Janetta Thomas lived another six days, she would have broken the UK longevity record which at that time was held by Alice Stevenson.

[edit] Anna Eliza Williams

Anna Eliza Williams (née Davies) (June 2, 1873 – December 27, 1987) was a supercentenarian. She was born in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, and died in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, aged 114, where she moved after her marriage. She broke the UK longevity record on July 12, 1985. On her 113th birthday Norris McWhirter paid her a visit at the Tuxedo Old Persons home, where she was living at the time. She was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her age was provably surpassed in 1989 by Jeanne Calment. Her United Kingdom record of 114 years and 208 days was broken by Charlotte Hughes in 1992, who still holds that record to this day.

Preceded by Fannie Thomas	Undisputed Oldest Recorded Person Ever March 13, 1987 – July 18, 1989	Succeeded by Jeanne Calment
Preceded by Mary McKinney	Oldest Recognized Living Person February 2, 1987 – December 27, 1987	Succeeded by Florence Knapp

[edit] Kate Begbie

Kate Begbie (January 9, 1877 – September 5, 1988) of Scotland was the oldest person in the United Kingdom until her death at 111 years and 240 days.

[edit] Charlotte Hughes

Charlotte Marion Hughes (née Milburn) (August 1, 1877^[3] – March 17, 1993^[1]) is the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom, despite legendary claims such as that of Thomas Parr.^[1] She was a schoolteacher. She married in 1940 when she was 63. Her husband, Noel, died in 1980, aged 103, after 40 years of marriage.^[3]

She remained in robust health into extreme old age and achieved public recognition for her longevity, including tea with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in 1985, whom she jokingly admonished against cuddling up to her, as Hughes was a Labour supporter. Thatcher replied by saying "Oh well, never mind, let's have a cup of tea". However, Hughes admitted to personally liking Thatcher, and described the Prime Minister as "A very nice woman". On her 110th birthday, she flew on the Concorde to New York, one of only two supercentenarian air passengers ever recorded.^[3] She stayed there for four days on an all-expenses paid visit.

She became the oldest person in the United Kingdom when Scotland's Kate Begbie died in 1988, and broke the national longevity record, held until then by Anna Eliza Williams, in early 1992.^[1] Several British women including Eva Morris (who died at almost 115), the only British world's-oldest since Williams, have reached 114 since, and one, Annie Jennings (1884–1999), barely reached 115, but the record set by Hughes, 115 year and 228 days, still stands. Hughes lived in her own home in Marske-by-the-Sea until 1991, when she moved to a nursing home due to becoming too frail to look after herself. She also spent her final years in a wheelchair, though she remained mentally alert and sharp to the end of her life.

[edit] John Evans

John Evans (August 19, 1877 – June 10, 1990) is the longest-lived man ever authenticated in the United Kingdom.

He had been a Welsh miner, and became the oldest man in the United Kingdom ever when he broke the record of England's John Mosely Turner. In March 1986, at 108, Evans was fitted with a pacemaker, to which he made a remarkably quick recovery. When asked by interviewers for the secret of his long life, he replied, "No smoking, no drinking and no cursing". On his 110th birthday, he visited London for the first time in his life.

The United Kingdom male longevity record set by John Evans, who died at 112 years and 295 days old, still stands. He is recognized as the world's oldest man from November 25, 1988 until his passing. Guinness had recognized Evans as the "world's oldest man" in 1989, but let the title lapse after his passing, only to bring it back in 2000.

Preceded by Alphaeus Philemon Cole	Undisputed Oldest Recorded Man Ever January 3, 1990 – November 18, 1992	Succeeded by Frederick L. Frazier
Preceded by Alphaeus Philemon Cole	Oldest Recognized Living Man November 25, 1988 – June 10, 1990	Succeeded by Henri Pérignon

[edit] Daisy Adams

Daisy Adams (née Woodward) for nine months was the oldest person in the United Kingdom, between March 18, 1993 and December 8, 1993. She was from Church Gresley, Derbyshire and was born on June 30, 1880. She died at the age of 113 years and 161 days and outlived her husband and her five children.

[edit] Rebecca Hewison

Rebecca Hewison (née Ramsdale) was born in Grimsby on October 19, 1881 and died on September 22, 1994, aged 112 years and 338 days. In 1990 she met the Queen Mother. She also was a supporter of Grimsby Town football club.

[edit] Lucy Askew

Lucy Jane Askew (September 8, 1883 – December 9, 1997) was an English supercentenarian and the oldest in her country at the time of her death at the age of 114 years and 92 days. Askew was born and died in Loughton. She had five other siblings, all of whom she outlived, though three of them also lived past 100. Askew was always in good health, and only moved into a nursing home when she was 106. She even sailed through a leg operation at 108, and was the last person documented to have been born in 1883.^[4]

[edit] Annie Jennings

Annie Thomas Jennings (November 12, 1884 – November 20, 1999) was a supercentenarian from the UK and the world's second-oldest person, after American Sarah Knauss, at her death aged 115. She became the oldest person in the UK following the passing of Lucy Jane Askew in 1997. Jennings held the title for about two years and was succeeded as the oldest person in the UK by Eva Morris. A teacher who never married, she is second only to Charlotte Hughes on the UK's all-time list, and 23rd in the world of the oldest ever. She apparently disliked being listed in the Guinness Book of Records.

She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1884.

[edit] Eva Morris

Eva Sharpe Morris (November 8, 1885 – November 2, 2000) was the oldest recognized person in the world from December 1999 until her death. She was a native of Stone, Staffordshire, England.

Eva had become the oldest person in the UK following the passing of Annie Jennings (November 12, 1884 – November 20, 1999), who died only eight days after turning 115. Eva, for her part, died just six days short of her 115th birthday.

She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1885.

[edit] Florrie Baldwin

Florence Emily 'Florrie' Baldwin (born March 1, 1896) is a supercentenarian and, at &0000000000000112.000000112 years, &0000000000000072.00000072 days, believed to be the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death on February 9, 2007 of Aida Mason, who was also 111.^[5] Born in Hunslet, she married engineer Clifford Baldwin in 1919. After his death in 1973, she lived alone until she was 105, when she moved to Radcliffe Gardens in Leeds.^[5] She credits her longevity to eating an egg sandwich every day.^[6]

[edit] Charlotte Gibson

Charlotte Gibson (née Simmons) (April 2, 1896 – February 5, 2007) was a supercentenarian^[7] who was featured on Channel 4's The Oldest People In The World documentary.^[8] Born at Womersley, near Knottingley in West Yorkshire,^[9][10] she survived all of her children and held a family birthday party each year in Harrogate,^[11] where she lived after moving from Leeds in the 1960s.^[9] Gibson was believed to be the second oldest person in the UK at the time of her death in 2007, aged 110 years 309 days.

[edit] References

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