- Florrie Baldwin
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name = Florrie Emily Baldwin
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birth_date = birth date and age|1896|3|31|df=yes
birth_place = flagicon|United KingdomHunslet ,England ,
United Kingdom
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known_for = Oldest living person in theUnited Kingdom
occupation =Florence Emily "Florrie" Baldwin (née Davies), (born
31 March 1896 ) is asupercentenarian and, at the age of age|1896|3|31, recognized as the oldest living person in theUnited Kingdom following the death of 111-year-oldAida Mason on9 February 2007 .cite news |url=http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1416391 |title=110 years old – and still going strong |author=Katie Baldwin |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=1 April 2006 |accessdate=2007-11-19] As of June 2008, she is one of the 20 oldest verified people in the world and the fourth-oldest person inEurope .Born Florence Davies in
Hunslet , she married engineer Clifford Baldwin in 1920. [ [http://www.yorkshirebmd.info/cgi/marrind.cgi?county=yorkshire Yorkshire Births Marriages & Deaths] ] After his death in 1973, Baldwin lived alone until she was 105, when she moved to Radcliffe Gardens, a nursing home inLeeds . [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2411373.ece Birthday girls celebrate: One is 21, the other 111 - This Britain, UK - Independent.co.uk] ]She remembers the Boer War and meeting Queen Victoria. [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article23790.ece Flo, 111, celebrates birthday | The Sun |HomePage|News] ]
Guinness World Records paid her a visit when Baldwin became the new English recordholder. [ [http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/pudseynews/display.var.1300233.0.florrie_is_the_oldest_woman_in_the_country.php Florrie Is The Oldest Woman In The Country - Bradford Telegraph and Argus)] ]She reportedly credits her
longevity to eating a fried egg sandwich every day. [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article18496.ece Good egg Florrie aged 110 | The Sun |HomePage|News] ] [ [http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Oldest-woman-in-Britain-reveals.2056788.jp Oldest woman in Britain reveals 110-year secret - Yorkshire Post] ]ee also
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List of living supercentenarians
*List of British supercentenarians
*Longevity
*Oldest people
*Supercentenarian References
External links
* [http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM Validated Living Supercentenarians]
* [http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html The Oldest Human Beings]
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