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Gladys Hawley
Gladys Hawley
Birth: 18 December 1891
Walsingham, Norfolk, England, UK
Death: 28 April 2004
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Age: 112 years, 132 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Validated

Gladys Ivy Hawley (née Staten; 18 December 1891 – 28 April 2004) 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

Hawley was born on 18 December 1891 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. She married Alfred Hawley in 1927, though the couple had no children. She worked as a nurse and lived in Ashgate, Derbyshire.

In her later life, Hawley lived in a care home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She was able to walk around with a frame until a few years before her death. When asked for the secret of her longevity, she replied "good, clean living". She died on 28 April 2004 at the age of 112 years, 132 days.

Hawley became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112 year-old Nellie Bradley on 11 March 2002. She also became the last surviving British person born before 1892. Following Hawley's death on 28 April 2004, Lucy d'Abreu became the UK's oldest living 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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