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Not to be confused with Alice Thompson.

Ada Thompson
Ada Thompson
Thompson on her 111th birthday in 2021, carrying the letter from Queen Elizabeth II
Birth: 28 November 1910
Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Death: 13 March 2023
Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Age: 112 years, 105 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
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Ada Thompson (née Bates; 28 November 1910 – 13 March 2023) was a British supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in West Yorkshire and the second-oldest known living person in the United Kingdom, behind Ethel Caterham.

Biography[]

Ada Thompson was born in Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, England, UK on 28 November 1910. She left school when she was 14 to become a twister at Merralls Mill, and later worked at other mills in Oxenhope. At the age of age 24, she married Eric Thompson, a wool sorter from Barnsley, South Yorkshire. During the Second World War, she was employed at Anderton Springs, which made components for aircraft, while her husband served in the Royal Navy as a gunner on board merchant ships. Thompson and her husband had one child, a son called Harry. The couple were married for 68 years until Eric's death around 2000 at the age of 91.

In November 2020, Thompson celebrated her 110th birthday. Shortly after Christmas 2021, at the age of 111, she contracted COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. However, she successfully recovered, making her one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.

Following the death of 108-year-old Ivy Clegg on 1 May 2019, Thompson became the oldest known living person in West Yorkshire. Following the death of 111-year-old Marjorie Kinne on 24 January 2022, Thompson became the last known surviving British person born in 1910.

Thompson's age was verified by Ollie Trim and Waclaw Jan Kroczek, and validated by the GRG on 18 February 2023.

Thompson died in a care home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England on 13 March 2023, at the age of 112 years, 105 days.

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