Ethel Lang

Ethel Lang (née Lancaster; 27 May 1900 – 15 January 2015)"Ethel Lang: Oldest British person who was born during reign of Queen Victoria dies aged 114", The Independent, 16 January 2015 was a British supercentenarian and, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom (after the death of Grace Jones on 14 November 2013), the ninth oldest living person in the world and the second-oldest living person in Europe after Emma Morano.

Lang was born in Worsbrough, near Barnsley, to Charles and Sarah Lancaster. She left school at the age of 13 to work in a shirt factory. She married William Lang in 1922 and their daughter Margaret was born in 1923. Lang's mother lived to the age of 91, and her great-grandmother to the age of 92.

Lang was the last living British person to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria.Sutton Valence woman Vera Pigott marks 109th birthday at North Street care home to become one of Kent's oldest people

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Category:1900 births
Category:2015 deaths
Category:British supercentenarians
Category:People from Barnsley