Catherine Masters

British supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from the United Kingdom who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 154 British supercentenarians, including 23 emigrants who died in other nations. The oldest known British person ever was Charlotte Hughes who died in 1993 at the age of 115 years, 228 days. The oldest man ever from the United Kingdom was Henry Allingham who died in 2009 at the age of 113 years, 42 days.As of 17 May 2020, the oldest living Britons are Joan Eileen Hocquard and Robert Weighton, both born on 29 March 1908 (aged 112 years, 49 days). Weighton is also the world's oldest living man.

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Betsy Baker

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

Baker was the first supercentenarian listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person. In 2002, researchers confirmed that she had been the world's oldest living person by modern verification standards for an unknown period of time prior to her death in 1955. She was the second well-documented person in the world to have reached the age of 113, after Delina Filkins.

Jeanetta Thomas

Jeanetta Jane Thomas (2 December 1869 – 5 January 1982) of Llantrisant, Wales, was the oldest person in the United Kingdom from October 1980 to January 1982. Her parents owned a quarry. She spent her youth in London working as a seamstress. Around age 40, she returned to Wales and opened a drapery shop, which she ran until she was 98. From the age of 107, Thomas resided at a nursing home in Cowbridge, Wales. The Times published her photograph upon her 112th birthday.

Daisy Adams

Daisy Irene Adams (née Woodward; 30 June 1880 – 8 December 1993) was the oldest person in the United Kingdom between March and December 1993. Adams lived in Church Gresley, Derbyshire. She was widowed at 36, as her husband died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Adams was a teetotaler and ate little. She outlived three of her five children, and died at the age of 113 years and 161 days. Her son Ted put her longevity down to "living a quiet life".

Rebecca Hewison

Rebecca Hewison (née Ramsdale; 19 October 1881 – 22 September 1994), from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, was the oldest person in Britain at the time of her death, aged 112 years, 338 days. She was the fourth of six children born to Will, a timber merchant, and Betsy-Ann Ramsdale. She married George Hewison, a stonemason, in 1905. In 1938 she moved to North London to live with her daughter Frances. In 1963 the family moved to Berrynarbor in Devon. At 105, Hewison returned to her hometown of Grimsby. In 1990 she met the Queen Mother at RAF Scampton. She was a supporter of Grimsby Town Football Club and met the team in 1991, the year she turned 110.

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.

Amy Hulmes

Amy Isabel Hulmes née Matthews (5 October 1887 – 27 October 2001) from Bury, Greater Manchester was the oldest person in Britain from November 2000 to October 2001. She was also thought to be the oldest person in the world, before the discovery of Maude Farris-Luse who was nine months older. She was the youngest of nine children. She became a weaver and married Philip Hulmes, who died in 1956. They had two daughters. According to her grandson Nick Murray, Hulmes used to drink four bottles of beer a day, gave up smoking at the age of 84, and could still touch her toes at the age of 105.

Edith Ingamells

Edith 'Judy' Ingamells (née Gude;12 January 1894 – 1 March 2006) was the oldest person in the United Kingdom from December 2005 to March 2006. 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, London, at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and married Percy Ingamells, a wholesale florist. 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". When serenaded with wartime songs on her 112th birthday, Ingamells responded "I don't like war songs. Who wants to remember something as horrible as the war?". Ingamells died of pneumonia at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield on 1 March 2006, aged 112.