RAF165: Living to 100 - Violet Brown
Welcome to the 6th in our series on centenarians. Our subject is Violet Brown, a Jamaican who lived from 3/10/1900 to 9/15/2017, a total of 117 years, 189 days. She is #6 on the list of all-time longest-lived people and was the oldest living person, for 5 months in 2017. In fact, two years ago today, she was the oldest lilving person.
Violet is the only Jamaican on the list of the ten longest-lived people. She was the last surviving person to have been a subject of Queen Victoria, because she was born when Jamaica was part of the British Empire.
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