caption death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name
lang in 2008 15 january 2015 barnsley , south yorkshire , england worsbrough , west riding of yorkshire , england ethel lang 27 may 1900 oldest 2013 and 15 january 2015 living person in the uk between 14 november ethel lang 2010.jpg ethel lang -lrb- supercentenarian -rrb-
 ethel lancaster
ethel lang -lrb- supercentenarian -rrb-

ethel lang -lrb- née lancaster ; 27 may 1900 -- 15 january 2015 -rrb- was a british supercentenarian who , at the time of her death , was the oldest living person in the united kingdom , the second-oldest living person in europe after emma morano of italy and the ninth oldest living person in the world .
lang was born at worsbrough , near barnsley , to miner charles lancaster and his wife sarah .
she left school at the age of 13 to work in a shirt factory .
she married william lang , the son of an alderman and councillor in 1922 and their daughter margaret was born in 1923 .
her husband died in 1988 at age 92 .
lang 's mother lived to the age of 91 , and her great-grandmother until 92 .
lang was the second last living person to have been born in the british empire during the reign of queen victoria .
the last one is jamaican woman violet brown .
