Ethel Lang (née Lancaster;[2] 27 May 1900 – 15 January 2015)[3][4] was a British supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom[4] and the second-oldest living person in Europe after Emma Morano of Italy.
Lang was born in Worsbrough, near Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, to miner Charles Lancaster and his wife Sarah.
She married William Lang, the son of an alderman and councillor in 1922 and their daughter Margaret was born in 1923.
[1][4][7][8] Lang became the United Kingdom's oldest living person upon the death of Grace Jones on 14 November 2013.
At the time of her death, she was the fourth-longest-lived person ever in the United Kingdom, after Charlotte Hughes, Annie Jennings and Eva Morris.