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	'''Joan Eileen Hocquard''' (born 29 March 1908) is the oldest person living in the United Kingdom. <ref> The Guardian, 28 May 2020 'World's oldest man dies in Hampshire aged 112' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/28/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-hampshire-aged-112</ref> <ref> BBC News, 29 March 2020, 112 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aasPVPlc_8s </ref>

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	== Early life ==

	Joan was born in ] in ] to Reginald Reynolds (1875-1970), an officer in the colonial marine departments in the ] in West and East Africa, and Elizabeth Loughborough (1878-1957). She went to boarding school in ] in ].

	As a young woman in the 1930s, she spent nine years working at a hotel in ] near the ]. In 1942, she married Emile Gilbert Hocquard, a keen sailor. They had no children. Joan worked as an ambulance driver in London at the start of the ] before she and her husband moved to ] near ].

	After the war she and her husband settled in ], ] and then at ] near ], from where they would sail their yacht to France. 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 living in the UK along with Bob Weighton.<ref> Bournemoth Echo, 30 March 2020 'Oldest living woman in UK Joan Hocquard turns 112' https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18343090.oldest-living-woman-uk-joan-hocquard-turns-112/ </ref> On 28 May 2020, on Bob Weighton's death, <ref>The Guardian, 28 May 2020 'World's oldest man dies in Hampshire aged 112' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/28/worlds-oldest-man-dies-in-hampshire-aged-112</ref> Hocquard became the oldest person living in the UK. However, the oldest living British person is Canadian immigrant ], born 10 March 1907. Ridgway has held this distinction since the death of Briton Grace Catherine Jones on 7 June 2019. <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6658280/phyllis-ridgway-turns-113/\|title=Canada’s oldest recorded person turns 113\|website=Global News}}</ref>

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