List of British supercentenarians

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 23 December 2024, the oldest person living in the United Kingdom is Ethel Caterham, born 21 August 1909, aged 115 years, 124 days.^[2]

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.

100 oldest British people ever

  Deceased   Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
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, 124 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	13 September 2024	113 years, 16 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	Kathleen McManners[1]	F	6 July 1901	20 September 2013	112 years, 76 days	England	England
53	Dorothy Gwendoline Payne[1]	F	5 August 1907	15 October 2019	112 years, 71 days	England	England
54	Florence Pittaway[1]	F	15 October 1902	21 December 2014	112 years, 67 days	England	England
55	Robert Weighton[1]	M	29 March 1908	28 May 2020	112 years, 60 days	England	England
56	Mary Ann Hebden[1]	F	4 October 1893	30 November 2005	112 years, 57 days	England	England
57	Edith Ingamells[1]	F	12 January 1894	1 March 2006	112 years, 48 days	England	England
58	Mary Ellen Swan[4]	F	24 June 1892	10 August 2004	112 years, 47 days	England	Canada
59	Merah Smith[2]	F	9 November 1912	Living	112 years, 44 days	Jamaica[d]	England
60	Alice Stevenson[1]	F	10 July 1861	18 August 1973	112 years, 39 days	England	England
61	Violet Davies-Evans[1]	F	30 March 1908	5 May 2020	112 years, 36 days	England	England
62	Jeanetta Thomas[1]	F	2 December 1869	5 January 1982	112 years, 34 days	Wales	Wales
63	Margaret Fish[1]	F	7 March 1899	12 March 2011	112 years, 5 days	England	England
64	Adela Harrison[2]	F	2 January 1913	Living	111 years, 356 days	England	England
65	Annie Price[1]	F	12 January 1886	26 December 1997	111 years, 348 days	Wales	England
66	Annie Turnbull[1]	F	21 September 1898	3 September 2010	111 years, 347 days	Scotland	Scotland
67	Ellen Watson[1]	F	3 January 1900	15 December 2011	111 years, 346 days	England	England
68	Ellaline Redmond[1]	F	20 March 1901	27 February 2013	111 years, 344 days	England	England
69	Margaret Taylor[3]	F	21 April 1875	30 March 1987	111 years, 343 days	Scotland	United States
70	Ada Roe[1]	F	6 February 1858	11 January 1970	111 years, 339 days	England	England
71	Helen Haward[1]	F	24 November 1884	23 October 1996	111 years, 334 days	England	England
72	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
74	Mary Ann Fewster[1]	F	6 February 1878	26 December 1989	111 years, 323 days	England	England
75	Jennie Howell[3]	F	11 February 1845	16 December 1956	111 years, 309 days	England	United States
76	Arthur Nash[4]	M	7 January 1885	4 November 1996	111 years, 302 days	England	Canada
77	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
79	Matilde Coulter[1]	F	30 March 1909	19 January 2021	111 years, 295 days	Italy	England
80	Rose Hart[1]	F	20 March 1878	5 January 1990	111 years, 291 days	England	England
81	Ivy Frampton[1]	F	22 November 1903	5 September 2015	111 years, 287 days	England	England
82	Elsie Steele[1]	F	6 January 1899	18 October 2010	111 years, 285 days	England	England
83	Hilda May Clulow[1]	F	15 March 1908	24 December 2019[11]	111 years, 284 days	England	England
84	John Mosley Turner[1]	M	15 June 1856	21 March 1968	111 years, 280 days	England	England
85	Lizzie Beevers[1]	F	7 November 1884	4 August 1996	111 years, 271 days	England	England
86	Dorothy Peel[1]	F	28 September 1902	24 June 2014	111 years, 269 days	England	England
87	Anna Tocher[3]	F	24 November 1873	1 August 1985	111 years, 250 days	Scotland	United States
88	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
90	Daisy Bastin[1]	F	3 May 1908	2 January 2020[12]	111 years, 244 days	England	England
91	Kate Begbie[1]	F	9 January 1877	5 September 1988	111 years, 240 days	England	Scotland
92	Hermione Cock[1]	F	1 March 1904	24 October 2015	111 years, 237 days	England	England
93	Marion Sawyer[3]	F	5 July 1901	26 February 2013	111 years, 236 days	England	United States
94	Louisa Aspland[1]	F	5 March 1888	21 October 1999	111 years, 230 days	England	England
95	Gladys Good[1]	F	12 March 1900	24 October 2011	111 years, 226 days	England	Wales
96	Annie Bannell[1]	F	12 February 1882	10 September 1993	111 years, 210 days	England	England
97	Elizabeth Jones[1]	F	20 August 1888	10 March 2000	111 years, 203 days	England	England
98	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
100	Florence Reeves[1]	F	17 February 1894	28 August 2005	111 years, 192 days	England	England

Notes

1. d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
2. 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

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.^[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

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

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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