List of British supercentenarians

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 persons who have become "supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age. This number includes emigrants who died in other nations. 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 31 January 2025, the oldest person living in the United Kingdom is Ethel Caterham, born 21 August 1909, aged 115 years, 163 days.[2]

## 100 oldest British people ever

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Rank  | Name  | Sex  | Birth date  | Death date  | Age  | Birthplace  | Place of death or
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01  | Charlotte Hughes[1] | F  | 1 August 1877  | 17 March 1993  | 115 years, 228 days  | England | England
02  | Ethel Caterham[2] | F  | 21 August 1909  | Living  | 115 years, 163 days  | England  | England
03  | Annie Jennings[1] | F  | 12 November 1884  | 20 November 1999  | 115 years, 8 days  | England  | England
04  | Eva Morris[1] | F  | 8 November 1885  | 2 November 2000  | 114 years, 360 days  | England  | England
05  | Ethel Lang[1] | F  | 27 May 1900  | 15 January 2015  | 114 years, 233 days  | England  | England
06  | Anna Eliza Williams[1] | F  | 2 June 1873  | 27 December 1987  | 114 years, 208 days  | England  | Wales
07  | Grace Clawson[3] | F  | 15 November 1887  | 28 May 2002  | 114 years, 194 days  | England  | United States
08  | Lucy Jane Askew[1] | F  | 8 September 1883  | 9 December 1997  | 114 years, 92 days  | England  | England
09  | Phyllis Ridgway[4] | F  | 10 March 1907  | 4 June 2021  | 114 years, 86 days  | England  | Canada
10  | Florrie Baldwin[1] | F  | 31 March 1896  | 8 May 2010  | 114 years, 38 days  | England  | England
11  | Amy Hulmes[1] | 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[1] | F  | 7 December 1899  | 14 November 2013  | 113 years, 342 days  | England  | England
14  | Olive Boar[1] | F  | 29 September 1904  | 28 August 2018  | 113 years, 333 days  | England  | England
15  | Bessie Camm[1] | F  | 20 June 1904  | 11 May 2018  | 113 years, 325 days  | England  | England
16  | Rosa Ann Comfort[1] | F  | 21 January 1879  | 6 November 1992  | 113 years, 290 days  | England  | England
17  | Lucy d'Abreu[1] | F  | 24 May 1892  | 7 December 2005  | 113 years, 197 days  | British Raj[a] | Scotland
18  | Gladys Hooper[1] | F  | 18 January 1903  | 9 July 2016  | 113 years, 173 days  | England  | England
19  | Daisy Adams[1] | F  | 30 June 1880  | 8 December 1993  | 113 years, 161 days  | England  | England
20  | Florence Finch[5] | F  | 22 December 1893  | 10 April 2007  | 113 years, 109 days  | England  | New Zealand
21  | Betsy Baker[3] | F  | 20 August 1842  | 24 October 1955  | 113 years, 65 days  | England  | United States
22  | Rose Eaton[1] | F  | 23 August 1909  | 7 October 2022  | 113 years, 45 days  | England  | England
23  | Henry Allingham[1] | M  | 6 June 1896  | 18 July 2009  | 113 years, 42 days  | England  | England
24  | Annie Scott[1] | F  | 15 March 1883  | 21 April 1996  | 113 years, 37 days  | Ireland[b] | Scotland
25  | Ruby Gilliam[1] | F  | 21 September 1885  | 22 October 1998  | 113 years, 31 days  | England  | England
26  | Mary Florence Walker[1] | F  | 28 August 1911  | 12 September 2024  | 113 years, 15 days  | England  | England
27  | Alice Sjöquist[4] | F  | 25 October 1878  | 7 November 1991  | 113 years, 13 days  | England  | Canada
28  | Fanny Martland[4] | F  | 19 November 1888  | 1 December 2001  | 113 years, 12 days  | England  | Canada
29  | Mary "Mollie" Walker, MBE[1] | F  | 5 February 1909  | 22 January 2022  | 112 years, 351 days  | Wales  | England
30  | Rachel Wieselberg[1] | F  | 23 June 1883  | 6 June 1996  | 112 years, 349 days  | Russian Empire[c] | England
31  | Rebecca Hewison[1] | F  | 19 October 1881  | 22 September 1994  | 112 years, 338 days  | England  | England
32  | Edna Strickland[1] | F  | 6 March 1911  | 16 January 2024  | 112 years, 316 days  | England  | England
33  | John Evans[1] | M  | 19 August 1877  | 10 June 1990  | 112 years, 295 days  | Wales  | Wales
34  | Mary Keir[1] | F  | 3 March 1912  | 17 December 2024[6] | 112 years, 289 days  | Wales  | Wales
35  | Grace Catherine Jones[1] | F  | 16 September 1906  | 7 June 2019  | 112 years, 264 days  | England  | England
36  | Henrietta Irwin[4] | F  | 27 May 1906  | 15 January 2019  | 112 years, 233 days  | Ireland[b] | Canada
37  | Alice Ducat[1] | F  | 8 May 1905  | 22 December 2017  | 112 years, 228 days  | Scotland  | England
38  | Lilian Priest[1] | F  | 7 November 1908  | 6 June 2021[7] | 112 years, 211 days  | Wales  | England
39  | Joan Hocquard[1] | F  | 29 March 1908  | 24 October 2020[8] | 112 years, 209 days  | England  | England
40  | Margaret Vivian[9] | F  | 25 February 1906  | 20 September 2018  | 112 years, 207 days  | Scotland  | Australia
41  | Amelia England[3] | F  | 15 May 1900  | 30 November 2012  | 112 years, 199 days  | England  | United States
42  | Jane Gray[9] | F  | 1 December 1901  | 7 June 2014  | 112 years, 188 days  | Scotland  | Australia
43  | Nellie Bradley[1] | F  | 12 September 1889  | 11 March 2002  | 112 years, 180 days  | England  | England
Violet Wood[1] | F  | 2 September 1899  | 29 February 2012  | England  | England
45  | Gertrude Kingston[1] | F  | 1 February 1909  | 28 July 2021  | 112 years, 177 days  | England  | England
46  | Mary Roberts[4] | F  | 5 October 1906  | 11 March 2019  | 112 years, 157 days  | Wales  | Canada
47  | Gladys Ivy Hawley[1] | F  | 18 December 1891  | 28 April 2004  | 112 years, 132 days  | England  | England
48  | Annie Butler[1] | F  | 4 June 1897  | 28 September 2009  | 112 years, 116 days  | England  | England
49  | Ada Thompson[1] | F  | 28 November 1910  | 13 March 2023  | 112 years, 105 days  | England  | England
50  | Leonora Cox[3] | F  | 30 December 1907  | 6 April 2020  | 112 years, 98 days  | England  | United States
51  | John Tinniswood[1] | M  | 26 August 1912  | 25 November 2024[10] | 112 years, 91 days  | England  | England
52  | Anonymous[1] | F  | 31 October 1909  | 22 January 2022  | 112 years, 83 days  | England  | England
Merah Smith[2] | F  | 9 November 1912  | Living  | 112 years, 83 days  | Jamaica[d] | England
54  | Kathleen McManners[1] | F  | 6 July 1901  | 20 September 2013  | 112 years, 76 days  | England  | England
55  | Dorothy Gwendoline Payne[1] | F  | 5 August 1907  | 15 October 2019  | 112 years, 71 days  | England  | England
56  | Florence Pittaway[1] | F  | 15 October 1902  | 21 December 2014  | 112 years, 67 days  | England  | England
57  | Robert Weighton[1] | M  | 29 March 1908  | 28 May 2020  | 112 years, 60 days  | England  | England
58  | Mary Ann Hebden[1] | F  | 4 October 1893  | 30 November 2005  | 112 years, 57 days  | England  | England
59  | Edith Ingamells[1] | F  | 12 January 1894  | 1 March 2006  | 112 years, 48 days  | England  | England
60  | Mary Ellen Swan[4] | F  | 24 June 1892  | 10 August 2004  | 112 years, 47 days  | England  | Canada
61  | Alice Stevenson[1] | F  | 10 July 1861  | 18 August 1973  | 112 years, 39 days  | England  | England
62  | Violet Davies-Evans[1] | F  | 30 March 1908  | 5 May 2020  | 112 years, 36 days  | England  | England
63  | Jeanetta Thomas[1] | F  | 2 December 1869  | 5 January 1982  | 112 years, 34 days  | Wales  | Wales
64  | Adela Harrison[2] | F  | 2 January 1913  | Living  | 112 years, 29 days  | England  | England
65  | Margaret Fish[1] | F  | 7 March 1899  | 12 March 2011  | 112 years, 5 days  | England  | England
66  | Annie Price[1] | F  | 12 January 1886  | 26 December 1997  | 111 years, 348 days  | Wales  | England
67  | Annie Turnbull[1] | F  | 21 September 1898  | 3 September 2010  | 111 years, 347 days  | Scotland  | Scotland
68  | Ellen Watson[1] | F  | 3 January 1900  | 15 December 2011  | 111 years, 346 days  | England  | England
69  | Ellaline Redmond[1] | F  | 20 March 1901  | 27 February 2013  | 111 years, 344 days  | England  | England
70  | Margaret Taylor[3] | F  | 21 April 1875  | 30 March 1987  | 111 years, 343 days  | Scotland  | United States
71  | Ada Roe[1] | F  | 6 February 1858  | 11 January 1970  | 111 years, 339 days  | England  | England
72  | Helen Haward[1] | F  | 24 November 1884  | 23 October 1996  | 111 years, 334 days  | England  | England
73  | Eunice Bowman[1] | F  | 23 August 1898  | 16 July 2010  | 111 years, 327 days  | England  | England
Dorothy Baldwin[1] | F  | 8 February 1902  | 1 January 2014  | England  | England
75  | Anonymous[1] | F  | 16 February 1909  | 6 January 2021  | 111 years, 325 days  | England  | England
76  | Mary Ann Fewster[1] | F  | 6 February 1878  | 26 December 1989  | 111 years, 323 days  | England  | England
77  | Jennie Howell[3] | F  | 11 February 1845  | 16 December 1956  | 111 years, 309 days  | England  | United States
78  | Arthur Nash[4] | M  | 7 January 1885  | 4 November 1996  | 111 years, 302 days  | England  | Canada
79  | Florence Pannell[1] | F  | 26 December 1868  | 20 October 1980  | 111 years, 299 days  | England  | England
Edith Kaufmann[1] | F  | 12 December 1903  | 7 October 2015  | Austria-Hungary[e] | England
81  | Matilde Coulter[1] | F  | 30 March 1909  | 19 January 2021  | 111 years, 295 days  | Italy | England
82  | Rose Hart[1] | F  | 20 March 1878  | 5 January 1990  | 111 years, 291 days  | England  | England
83  | Ivy Frampton[1] | F  | 22 November 1903  | 5 September 2015  | 111 years, 287 days  | England  | England
84  | Elsie Steele[1] | F  | 6 January 1899  | 18 October 2010  | 111 years, 285 days  | England  | England
85  | Hilda May Clulow[1] | F  | 15 March 1908  | 24 December 2019[11] | 111 years, 284 days  | England  | England
86  | John Mosley Turner[1] | M  | 15 June 1856  | 21 March 1968  | 111 years, 280 days  | England  | England
87  | Lizzie Beevers[1] | F  | 7 November 1884  | 4 August 1996  | 111 years, 271 days  | England  | England
88  | Dorothy Peel[1] | F  | 28 September 1902  | 24 June 2014  | 111 years, 269 days  | England  | England
89  | Anna Tocher[3] | F  | 24 November 1873  | 1 August 1985  | 111 years, 250 days  | Scotland  | United States
90  | Irene Pearce[1] | 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
92  | Daisy Bastin[1] | F  | 3 May 1908  | 2 January 2020[12] | 111 years, 244 days  | England  | England
93  | Kate Begbie[1] | F  | 9 January 1877  | 5 September 1988  | 111 years, 240 days  | England  | Scotland
94  | Hermione Cock[1] | F  | 1 March 1904  | 24 October 2015  | 111 years, 237 days  | England  | England
95  | Marion Sawyer[3] | F  | 5 July 1901  | 26 February 2013  | 111 years, 236 days  | England  | United States
96  | Louisa Aspland[1] | F  | 5 March 1888  | 21 October 1999  | 111 years, 230 days  | England  | England
97  | Gladys Good[1] | F  | 12 March 1900  | 24 October 2011  | 111 years, 226 days  | England  | Wales
98  | Annie Bannell[1] | F  | 12 February 1882  | 10 September 1993  | 111 years, 210 days  | England  | England
99  | Elizabeth Jones[1] | F  | 20 August 1888  | 10 March 2000  | 111 years, 203 days  | England  | England
100  | Jeanie Oliver[3] | F  | 17 August 1880  | 1 March 1992  | 111 years, 197 days  | Scotland  | United States
Jane Webster[1] | F  | 17 April 1906  | 31 October 2017  | Ireland[b] | England

## Notes

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1. ^ d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
2. ^ a b c 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. ^ Jamaica was then a British colony.
5. ^ Kaufmann was born in Děčín, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic.

## Biographies

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### Betsy Baker

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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.[13] 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.[13] She died in Tecumseh, aged 113 years and 65 days.[13]

Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person.[13] In 2002, researchers confirmed that she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards.[13][14] Baker would hold the title of world's oldest living person from Nancy Merriman's death on 14 January 1954[15] 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.[14]

### Lucy Jane Askew

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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.[16][17]

### Edith Ingamells

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Edith 'Judy' Ingamells (née Gude; 12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006)[18] was the oldest person in the United Kingdom from December 2005 to March 2006.[19] 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.[20] 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".[21]

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