Grace Adelaide Jones

Grace Adelaide Jones
Grace Jones at the age of 113
Birth:	7 December 1899 Bermondsey, London, UK
Death:	14 November 2013 Bermondsey, London, UK
Age:	113 years, 342 days
Country:	UK
Validated

Grace Adelaide Jones (7 December 1899 – 14 November 2013) was a British supercentenarian who was, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the UK and the last British person born in the 1800s. She was also one of the last surviving people born before 1900. Her age has been validated by the Gerontology Research Group.

Biography

Jones never married in her lifetime; her only fiancé, Albert Rees, was killed in World War I. She is one of the only 16 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) became the new oldest living UK resident.

References

• Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date) Gerontology Research Group
• Oldest person in UK Grace Jones dies aged 113 BBC News. 14 November 2013

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