Mollie Walker

Mollie Walker
Walker on her 111th birthday in 2020
Birth:	5 February 1909 Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Age:	112 years, 258 days
Country:	UK
Unvalidated

Mary "Mollie" Walker, MBE (née Hybart; born 5 February 1909) is a British supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group. She is currently the oldest living person in the United Kingdom, following the death of Gertrude Kingston.

Biography

Mollie Walker was born in Cadoxton, Wales, UK, on 5 February 1909. Her first car was an Austin 7, which she acquired aged 17. Walker drove many types of vehicle and taught many people to drive throughout her life. She drove until the age of 103. She married John Walker in 1931, and they had two children: Sheila and Graham.

During World War II, Walker served in the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS). From 1954 to 1979, she worked for Peppard Parish Council. She was later awarded an Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her work in the Civil Defence.

Walker became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom following the death of Gertrude Kingston on 28 July 2021.

Walker currently lives in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England, in the house that she and her husband built in the 1930s.

Gallery

Walker in 1912

Walker in August 2014 at age 105

Walker in November 2018 at age 109

Walker on her 112th birthday in 2021

References

• All Validated British Supercentenarians Oldest in Britain
• Mrs Mollie Walker MBE Peppard News
• Our Oldest Resident Celebrates 111 Years Peppard News, Spring 2020
• Peppard's Oldest Resident is Now 112! Peppard News, Spring 2021

United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane Lister • Martha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel Swain • Mary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline Beale • Fanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary Worthington • Jane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah Smith • John Mosley Turner • Ada Roe • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Frederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias Williams • Florence Pannell • Jeanetta Thomas • Alice 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 Brice • Annie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice Bowman • Annie Turnbull • Elsie Steele • Margaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie Camm • Olive Boar • Grace C Jones • Gwen Payne • Hilda Clulow • Bob Weighton • Joan Hocquard • Lilian Priest • Gertrude Kingston • Mollie Walker •