The oldest person in Britain, a woman, has died at the age of 114.
Ethel Lang passed away on Thursday, January 15, and is believed to have
been the last person to be born during the reign of Queen Victoria.
Mrs Lang was born on 27
May 1900 in the Worsbrough area of Barnsley and lived in the South Yorkshire
town all her life.
Her death means that the
title of Britain’s oldest person has passed to 111-year-old Gladys Hooper of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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