Ethel Caterham, who lives in a care home in Surrey, has taken the mantle at 115 years and 252 days, LongeviQuest confirms.
A British woman has officially become the oldest person in the world at the age of 115, according to the Guinness World Records.
Ethel Caterham, who lives in a care home in Surrey, has taken the mantle at 115 years and 252 days, LongeviQuest confirmed.
It comes after the death on 30 April of the previous record holder, Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was a 116-year-old nun from Brazil.
Mrs Caterham sets multiple records – including being the last living person to be born in 1909.
She is also the youngest person to be named the oldest woman in the last 12 years.
She has outlived her husband Norman, who died in 1976, and both her children Gem and Anne, who died after the millennium.
