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	'''Joan Eileen Hocquard''' (born 29 March 1908) is the oldest person in the UK.<ref>http://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/index.php</ref> <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/28/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-hampshire-aged-112</ref> <ref> https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18343090.oldest-living-woman-uk-joan-hocquard-turns-112/ </ref> <ref> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aasPVPlc_8s </ref>

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	== Early life ==

	Joan was born in her mother's house in ] in ]. Her father, Reginald Reynolds (1875-1970), was an officer in the colonial marine departments in the ] in West and East Africa. Her mother, Elizabeth Loughborough (1878-1957), came from a well-off family through a partnership in a City law firm. Joan spent some of her childhood in ] in ] (where her brother Christopher was born in 1913) and some at her grandmother's house in London. She went to boarding school in ] in ].

	As a young woman, she spent nine years working at a hotel in ] near the ] in the 1930s, and returned home just before the ]. In 1942, she married Emile Gilbert Hocquard, a keen sailor whom she met when he tied his boat up next to her father's at ] in ]. They had no children. She worked as an ambulance driver in London at the start of the war before she and her husband moved to ] near ].

	== Later life ==
	After the war she and her husband settled in ], ] and then at ] near ]. They had a yacht Peregrine in which they often sailed to France, the ] and the ]. Gilbert Hocquard died in 1983 and Joan moved to a flat near ] harbour.

	== Oldest person ==
	On 24 December 2019, Joan Hocquard became the joint-oldest person in the UK<ref>https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/britains-oldest-person-hilda-clulow-17777596</ref>, along with Bob Weighton. On 28 May 2020, on Bob Weighton's death, <ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/28/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-hampshire-aged-112</ref> Hocquard became the oldest person in the UK.


	== References ==
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