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Hilda Clulow
Hilda Clulow
Hilda Clulow on her 110th birthday in 2018.
Birth: 15 March 1908
Birmingham, England, UK
Death: 24 December 2019
Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
Age: 111 years, 284 days
Country: United Kingdom UK
Validated

Hilda May Clulow (née Heath; 15 March 1908 – 24 December 2019) was a British supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death, though she was not the oldest living person born in the UK as Phyllis Ridgway of Canada was older. Her age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography

Early Life

Hilda Clulow was born as Hilda May Heath in Selly Park, a suburb of Birmingham, England, on 15 March 1908. She was the third of six children. At the age of 16, she started working in a factory as a dressmaker, and her friends and neighbours would supply her with dressmaking materials.

Clulow married her husband, Arthur Clulow, in 1937, and had an unreported number of children with him. The couple enjoyed riding on their tandem together and going on holiday to Blackpool and Cornwall.

Later Life

Clulow retired at the age of 60. In her later years, she moved into a care home in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. She celebrated her 110th birthday in March 2018 with the staff and other residents of her care home, and the Mayor of her borough paid her a visit. At the time, she had six great-grandchildren.

Clulow became the oldest living person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Gwen Payne on 15 October 2019. Clulow died on 24 December 2019 at the age of 111 years, 284 days. Following her death, Joan Hocquard and Bob Weighton (both of whom were two weeks younger than her) jointly shared the title of the UK's oldest living person.

Age Validation

Clulow's age was verified by Waclaw Jan Kroczek and Oliver Trim, and validated by the GRG on 24 December 2020, a year after her death.

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United Kingdom's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (VE)

Frederick Stabbins • Jane ListerMartha Truelove • Ann Sharp • Jane Raby • Frances Smith • William Walker • Ann Russell • Eliza Roff • Ellen Palmer • Rachel MacArthur • Rachel SwainMary Davey • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Rebecca Lees • Sarah Fitt • Elizabeth Sellwood • Matilda Coppins • Elizabeth Whitehead • Emma Rooke • Margaret Lunn • Sarah Humphrey • Caroline BealeFanny Hopkins • Elizabeth Etheridge • Sophia Wellstead • Rhoda Harris • Emma Weeks • Edith Grellier • Mary WorthingtonJane Stoneman • Ellen Dart • Elizabeth Kensley • Hannah SmithJohn Mosley TurnerAda Roe • Alice StevensonElizabeth WatkinsFrederick Butterfield • Rose Heeley • Agnes Helyar • James Harrow • Sarah Morgan • Lilias WilliamsFlorence PannellJeanetta ThomasAlice Brewster • Anna Eliza Williams • Kate Begbie • Charlotte Hughes • Daisy Adams • Rebecca Hewison • Annie Scott • Rachel Wieselberg • Lucy Askew • Annie Jennings • Eva Morris • Amy Hulmes • Nellie Bradley • Gladys Hawley • Lucy d'Abreu • Judy Ingamells • Emmeline BriceAnnie Knight • Ada Mason • Florrie Baldwin • Eunice BowmanAnnie Turnbull • Elsie SteeleMargaret Fish • Violet Wood • Grace A Jones • Ethel Lang • Gladys Hooper • Bessie CammOlive BoarGrace C JonesGwen PayneHilda ClulowBob WeightonJoan HocquardLilian PriestGertrude KingstonMollie WalkerEthel Caterham

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