List of British supercentenarians

Betsy Baker Betsy Ann Baker (née Russell; born 20 August 1842 – 24 October 1955) was born in Great Brington, Northamptonshire in England, immigrated to the United States, settled in Nebraska, and became the world's oldest person. She lived for 65 years in Johnson County, where she was called "the Queen mother of the Johnson County Fair" in 1953. At age 107, she received a congratulatory letter from president Harry S. Truman. On her 112th birthday, she was featured in the US Army magazine Stars and Stripes. Baker would hold the title of world's oldest living person from Nancy Merriman's death on 14 January 1954 until her own death in 1955. She was the second well-documented person in the world to have reached the age of 113, after Delina Filkins. Rita Farmer Rita Farmer (24 June 1914 – 30 November 2025) was the oldest person in Norfolk at the time of her death, aged 111 years and 159 days. She was born in Tonbridge, Kent, and resided in Gorleston-on-Sea. She never married, or had children. == References ==