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Joan Eileen Hocquard (born 29 March 1908) is the oldest person living in the United Kingdom.

Early life

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

As a young woman in the 1930s, she spent nine years working at a hotel in France near the Alps in the 1930s. 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 war before she and her husband moved to East Dean near Eastbourne.

After the war she and her husband settled in Seaford, Sussex and then at Canford Cliffs near Bournemouth, from where they would sail their yacht to France. Gilbert Hocquard died in 1983 and Joan moved to a flat near Poole harbour.

Oldest person

On 24 December 2019, Joan Hocquard became the joint-oldest person in the UK, along with Bob Weighton. On 28 May 2020, on Bob Weighton's death, Hocquard became the oldest person in the UK.

Joan Hocquard's lifetime has encompassed two appearances of Halley's comet, five UK monarchs, 10 popes, 20 US presidents, 22 UK prime ministers, and 25 of 28 Summer Olympic Games (including all three London Olympics.)

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