Ethel Lang (nee Lancaster ; ^[1] 27 May 1900 ^[2] – 15 January 2015) ^[3] was a British supercentenarian and, at the time of her death, the oldest living person in the United Kingdom (after the death of Grace Jones on 14 November 2013), ^[4] the ninth oldest living person in the world and the second-oldest living person in Europe after Emma Morano .

Lang was born in Worsbrough , near Barnsley, to Charles and Sarah Lancaster . She left school at the age of 13 to work in a shirt factory. She married William Lang in 1922 and their daughter Margaret was born in 1923. Lang's mother lived to the age of 91, and her great-grandmother to the age of 92. ^{[5] [6]}

Lang was the last living British person to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria . ^[7]

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