R.I.P. Grace Jones (Last Briton born in the 1800s)

[Sirena]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...narian-grace-jones-dies-aged-113-8940170.html

 

[editor]

Some detail from the link:

Grace Jones, Britain's oldest woman, and the last living person in the country born in the 1800s, has died, her MP Simon Hughes has confirmed.

Miss Jones, who was a member of the small group of individuals who live to be over 110 - known as super-centenarians, was born on 7 December 1899. She was the sixth oldest person alive in the world before her death today.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

That leaves Barnsley's own Ethel Lang as the current oldest person in the UK - and the only one of Queen Victoria's subjects still alive.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

That leaves Barnsley's own Ethel Lang as the current oldest person in the UK - and the only one of Queen Victoria's subjects still alive.

Not looking good for the Southerners is it, that list?

 

[Sirena]

Some detail from the link:

I was going to put it in the music section for maximum tricksiness....

 

[Lord Camomile]

Be honest, how many of you thought "oh, not that Grace Jones"

Good innings, would have seen a helluvalot. Bit odd her MP announced it, isn't it?

 

[The Octagon]

That leaves Barnsley's own Ethel Lang as the current oldest person in the UK - and the only one of Queen Victoria's subjects still alive.

My Nan knows her and I was christened in the same church apparently

 

[brogdale]

If she had been born in the 1800's that would have been even more impressive.

I did try and get some interest in this yesterday...
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/in-praise-of-grace-jones.317255/

 

[Ponyutd]

If she had been born in the 1800's that would have been even more impressive.

I did try and get some interest in this yesterday...
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/in-praise-of-grace-jones.317255/

She was born in the 1800's, 1899.

 

[RubyBlue]

OMG!!!! Grace is dead??

 

[RubyBlue]

Oh, only read the Grace Jones name

poor Grace Jones though

 

[brogdale]

She was born in the 1800's, 1899.

Oh, my mistake, then. I read that as the 1800's as in 1800 to 1809? I suppose it's just that being born in the 1960's I'd not expect folk to describe me as a child of the 1900's. Grace was born in the 1890's, wasn't she?

Anyway...not important, but to reach 113 years in your own flat is pretty impressive.

 

[xes]

puny humans
http://sciencenordic.com/new-record-world’s-oldest-animal-507-years-old

 

[Sirena]

puny humans
http://sciencenordic.com/new-record-world’s-oldest-animal-507-years-old

killed for science!

 

[xes]

yeah, dunnit make ya proud!

 

[Archimage]

The oldest living things in the world live right up the hill from me.. The ancient bristlecone forest!

 

[King Biscuit Time]

It's like Schrodinger's Clam - You can't observe how old it is until you kill it to see how old it is.

Except that's not really like Schrodinger's Cat is it?

 

[Sirena]

The oldest living things in the world live right up the hill from me.. The ancient bristlecone forest!

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/lichens-do-not-age/

Ah, but is it older than the 10,000 year old giant fungus?

 

[Archimage]

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/lichens-do-not-age/

Ah, but is it older than the 10,000 year old giant fungus?

Guess not. Close though, I think they are close to 5,000 yrs old

 

[Fez909]

It's interesting to think that in her lifetime, the entire population of the planet has been refreshed (except for the 5 people still alive who were older than her).

And it's sad to think her fiance was killed during WW1 and she's lived all these years with that pain. She said he was the one.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Be honest, how many of you thought "oh, not that Grace Jones"

Yes

 

[xes]

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/lichens-do-not-age/

Ah, but is it older than the 10,000 year old giant fungus?

you're a 10 year old giant fungus

 

[Gingerman]

Must be rare for someone's life to span 3 centuries....

 

[Mation]

It's like Schrodinger's Clam - You can't observe how old it is until you kill it to see how old it is.

Except that's not really like Schrodinger's Cat is it?

No, but you can tell how fast the clam is going.

 

[Sirena]

you're a 10 year old giant fungus

Not the classic 10 year old fungus put-down?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Just trying to my head around the amount of change she would have seen in her lifetime, it's staggering

 

[xes]

the old ones are the best (and it should have been 10,000)

 

[RedDragon]

In addition to saying R.I.P to Grace, can I also use this thread to give a shout out to Hetty Bowers who died this week aged 108

One of the last surviving activists who took part in the ‘Battle of Cable Street’ in 1936 which prevented Mosley’s Blackshirts marching through London’s East End has died at the age of 108.
The Docklands and East London Advertiser

 

[N_igma]

Must be rare for someone's life to span 3 centuries....

Not as cool as someone who has lived in two millennia

 

[N_igma]

Although to be fair she has done both so she wins lol.