Ethel Lang, 111

Ethel Lang, with her 87 year old daughter Margaret Bates

Ethel Lang (born 27 May, 1900) is a British supercentenarian who currently resides in Barnsley, Yorkshire. At present she is the oldest resident of Yorkshire, and the 4th oldest in UK after the death of Victoria Roberta Southan, who was born 3 days before Ethel. She broke her hip when she was 98 years of age. She was fond of dancing, until she broke her hip. She lives in a care  home in Gilroyd, Barnsley.  She managed to dance when she was 106. She married William Lang in 1933 and the couple’s only daughter Margaret was born a year later. The couple shared the same birthday but he was four years older and died at the age of 92.