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Florrie Baldwin
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Florence Emily Baldwin (née Davies; 31 March 1896 - 8 May 2010) was a British supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom and Europe and the second oldest living person in the world behind Eugénie Blanchard. Biography She was born on 31 March 1896 In 1920, she married painter and decorator Clifford Baldwin and moved to Woodhouse. She then moved to Radcliffe Gardens, a nursing home in Leeds. She credited her longevity to eating a fried egg sandwich every day. However doctors reputedly thought it could be due to her job as a clerk at an engineering firm for fifty years, which she retired from at the age of 75. The company was based on top a steep hill in Woodhouse, Leeds. "She would walk up that hill, come home at lunchtime and then back up it" commented a grandson. Florrie Baldwin became the oldest living person in the UK from the death of fellow Aida Mason on 9 February 2007. |
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