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Elizabeth Whitehead
Elizabeth Whitehead
Whitehead celebrating her 107th birthday.
Birth: 30 August 1844
Market Harborough, England, UK
Death: 5 March 1953
Bournemouth, England, UK
Age: 108 years, 187 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Centenarian

Elizabeth Whitehead (née Aldwinkle; 30 August 1844 – 5 March 1953) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death.

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Elizabeth Aldwinkle was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, UK, on 30 August 1844, the eldest child of Samuel and Ann Aldwinkle. She married John Whitehead around 1867. Elizabeth and John worked as jewelers before retiring around 1900. John died in 1915.

Whitehead became the oldest living British person when Matilda Coppins died on 22 December 1951.

Elizabeth Whitehead died in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK, on 5 March 1953, aged 108 years, 187 days. She left £4,374 in her will, equivalent to over £121,000 in 2019. Emma Rooke then became the oldest British person.

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United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane ListerMartha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel SwainMary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline BealeFanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary WorthingtonJane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah SmithJohn Mosley TurnerAda Roe • Alice StevensonElizabeth WatkinsFrederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias WilliamsFlorence PannellJeanetta ThomasAlice Brewster • Anna Eliza Williams • Kate Begbie • Charlotte Hughes • Daisy Adams • Rebecca Hewison • Annie Scott • Rachel Wieselberg • Lucy Askew • Annie Jennings • Eva Morris • Amy Hulmes • Nellie Bradley • Gladys Hawley • Lucy d'Abreu • Judy Ingamells • Emmeline BriceAnnie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice BowmanAnnie Turnbull • Elsie SteeleMargaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie CammOlive BoarGrace C JonesGwen PayneHilda ClulowBob WeightonJoan HocquardLilian PriestGertrude KingstonMollie WalkerEthel Caterham

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