Annie Knight

Annie Knight
Birth:	6 June 1895 Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Death:	27 November 2006 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Age:	111 years, 174 days
Country:	UK
Validated

Annie Isabella Knight (6 June 1895 – 27 November 2006) was a British supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death. Her age has been validated by the Gerontology Research Group.

Biography

Knight was born in Glasgow and already Scotland's oldest person since the 7 December 2005 death of Lucy d'Abreu, who was, at age 113, also the oldest person in the UK at the time.

She had been an active suffragette and helped to organize meetings and attended demonstrations. Knight was also an active supporter of Scottish independence and of the Scottish National Party (SNP). In 1962, she hosted the pirate station Radio Free Scotland in her front room.

Knight, who lived in three centuries, put her long life down to the Scottish staple of porridge, no alcohol (she had been teetotal all her life) and the occasional sweet.

She died in Aberdeen and was survived by her son Bill, 86, two grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and thirteen great-great-grandchildren.

References

• Gerontology Research Group
• All Validated Supercentenarians Oldest in Britain
• Birthday 111 for 'oldest' woman BBC News, 6 June 2006
• Former suffragette becomes Britain's oldest woman The Telegraph, 4 August 2006
• 'Oldest' woman dies at age of 111 BBC News, 29 November 2006
• Oldest person in Britain dies, aged 111 The Independent, 30 November 2006

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