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Ethel Lang (née Lancaster; 27 May 1900 – 15 January 2015)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Validated Living Supercentenarians )〕〔("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 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 the last living British person to have been born in the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria〔 and world's second last living person to have been born in during the reign of Queen Victoria. The last one is Jamaican woman Violet Brown. ==Biography== Lang was born at Worsbrough, near Barnsley, to miner Charles Lancaster and his wife Sarah. Some of her family relatively live longer. Lang's mother lived to the age of 91, one of her sisters lived to be 104 and her great-grandmother died in 1848 aged 92.〔 also, at the time of her death, her daughter Margaret was still alive at 91 years old.〔 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. She lived independently until the age of 105.〔(Ethel Lang: Shirtmaker and coalminer's daughter whose death at 114 made her the last Victorian in Britain | News | The Independent ), ''The Independent'', 26 January 2015〕〔 Lang became the United Kingdom's oldest living person upon the death of Grace Jones on 14 November 2013.〔 Lang died on 15 January 2015 at Barnsley, at age 114 years and 7 months. at the time of her death she was the fourth longest-lived person ever in United Kingdom, after Charlotte Hughes, Annie Jennings and Eva Morris. After her death, Gladys Hooper took over as the United Kingdom's oldest living person. ==See also== *List of European supercentenarians *List of oldest living people by nation *List of the verified oldest people *List of the verified oldest women *Oldest people 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethel Lang (supercentenarian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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