List of British supercentenarians

As of January 2015[update], the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 154 British persons who have become "supercentenarians", attaining or surpassing 110 years of age.

[1] The oldest man from the United Kingdom is Henry Allingham, who died in 2009 at the age of 113 years and 42 days.

[1] As of 11 February 2025, the oldest person living in the United Kingdom is Ethel Caterham, born 21 August 1909, aged 115 years, 174 days.

[14] Lucy Jane Askew (8 September 1883 – 9 December 1997) was the oldest person in Europe at the time of her death, aged 114 years and 92 days.

She moved to Enfield, Middlesex, at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, and married Percy Ingamells, a wholesale florist.

Her daughter, Patricia Bull, said, at the time of Ingemells' 111th birthday, that the secret of her longevity was to "never look back, always look forward, which she is certainly doing".

Henry Allingham (1896–2009) was a First World War veteran and is the longest-lived British man ever, at 113 years and 42 days. Pictured in 2006, aged 110.