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Mary Davey
Mary Davey
Birth: 3 June 1832
Clayton, England, UK
Death: 2 October 1940
Brighton, England, UK
Age: 108 years, 121 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Centenarian

Mary Davey (3 June 1832 – 2 October 1940) was a British centenarian who was the oldest known living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death.

Biography[]

Mary Davey was born in Clayton, Sussex, United Kingdom, on 3 June 1832 and was baptised there on 12 May 1833. She never married, and worked as a baker's assistant for over 70 years until after her 90th birthday. On 14 November 1935, at the age of 103, Davey voted in the 1935 UK General Election.

Davey became the oldest known person in the United Kingdom on 12 October 1938, following the death of 108-year-old Rachel Swain of Flitwick, Bedfordshire. She held the title until her own death on 2 October 1940, aged 108 years, 121 days. She was succeeded as the oldest person in the United Kingdom by Thomas Pope.

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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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