Anna Eliza Williams

Anna Eliza Williams, née Davies (2 June 1873 – 27 December 1987)[1] was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987. She was born at Tenbury Wells, Hereford & Worcester, England (according to information on her death certificate) and died on 27 December 1987 at the Tuxedo Old People's Home, 104 Eaton Crescent, Swansea, Wales, aged 114 years 208 days. (She had moved to Swansea after her marriage.) Her husband - William Henry Williams, a carpenter - died in 1954.[2] Williams attributed her longevity to "a life of idleness"[3], along with "being a non-smoker and eating lots of vegetables". There was also a history of longevity in her family: her mother lived to be 94 and all seven of Williams' siblings lived beyond the age of 80, one surviving to 101. Williams broke the British longevity record on 12 July 1985.[4] On her 113th birthday Norris McWhirter paid her a visit at the Tuxedo Old People's Home, where she was living at the time. She was listed in the Guinness Book of Records in the 1980s and early 1990s. She died on 27 December 1987 (the cause of death was simply given as "old age" on her death certificate) and her death was registered by her grandson two days later. Her record as the undisputed oldest recorded person ever was broken by Jeanne Calment in 1989. Her British record of 114 years 208 days was broken by Charlotte Hughes in 1992, who still holds that record to this day.