Lucy d'Abreu

Lucy d'Abreu

Lucy Victoria d'Souza d'Abreu (24 May 1892 – 7 December 2005)cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4512526.stm BBC report on her death |title=Most senior citizen dies aged 113 |date=9 December 2005 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2007-11-19] was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death. She gained the title of "oldest person in Scotland" in June 2001,Fact|date=November 2007 at age 109, following the death of Agnes Kinnear, born November 1891, who was 109 as well at the time, fact|date=October 2008 and the UK title on April 28, 2004, at almost age 112, following the death of Gladys Hawley, who was 112. [http://www.grg.org/Adams/L/UK.HTM Validated supercentenarians who lived and/or died in the UK] The Gerontology Research Group]

Born in Dharwar, India,cite news |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=371127&in_page_id=1770 |title=Oldest Briton dies aged 113 |work=Daily Mail |date=9 December 2005 |accessdate=2007-11-19] Lucy Victoria d'Souza married Abundius d'Abreu, a surgeon, and moved to Ireland c. 1913. In 1985, she moved to Scotland to be near one of her children. Her husband was a cousin-in-law of the Queen Mother,cite news |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/imported/celtic-lifestyle-is-key-to-longevity-13722638.html |title=Celtic lifestyle is key to longevity |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=12 December 2005 |accessdate=2008-09-19] and she was visited by the British Royal Family in May 2002, for her 110th birthday.

D'Abreu holds the record for the oldest person born in India whose age can be verified.Fact|date=November 2007 After a fall at the age of 106, she moved to Annfield House nursing home in Stirling,cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2934482.stm |title=UK's oldest woman reaches 111 |date=24 May 2003 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2008-09-19] where she died peacefully, aged 113 years and 197 days. Historically, it should be noted that she was one of the last people, if not the last person, to have lived in India during Queen Victoria's reign, and also during the Great Famine of 1896-1902.Fact|date=November 2007

References

ee also

* List of British supercentenarians
* Supercentenarian
* Oldest people
* List of the verified oldest people


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