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Grace Adelaide Jones
Birth: 7 December 1899
UK
Death: 14 November 2013
UK
Age: 113 years, 342 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
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Grace Adelaide Jones (7 December 1899—14 November 2013), was at the time of death, the oldest living person in the UK, the eighth oldest living person, and one of the eight last supercentenarians born before 1900 until her death. She has never married in her lifetime; her only fiancé, Albert Rees, was killed in World War 1. She is one of the only 14 British people to reach the age of 113. She died less than a month before her 114th birthday in 2013. After she died, Ethel Lang (27 May 1900-15 January 2015) was the new oldest living UK resident.

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