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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 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 Second World 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.)
References
- 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
- 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/
- BBC News, 29 March 2020, 112 years old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aasPVPlc_8s
- Liverpool Echo, 19 Feb 2020, 'Britain's oldest person Hilda Clulow has died aged 111' https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/britains-oldest-person-hilda-clulow-17777596
- 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