Britain’s oldest person Bessie Camm has died at aged 113, after revealing the secrets of her long life which includes “hard work, knowing lovely people and good food”
Bessie Camm died at a care home in Rotherham, Yorkshire, just six weeks before her 114th birthday
The former nurse became the oldest person in the UK last July and was the tenth-oldest person in the world.
Bessie, who was born in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, on June 20, 1904, was alive during the reign of five monarchs and 21 prime ministers.
In 2016 Bessie said the secret to a long life was “hard work, knowing lovely people and good food,” according to staff at Moorgate Lodge Care Home, where she lived.
Care home manager Anne Kay told the Rotherham Advertiser at the time: “Bessie is an absolute inspiration.
“She always wants to know what’s going on and as well as enjoying educational TV programmes, she enjoys watching quizzes and often answers before the contestants.”
Bessie out-lived her husband John by 45 years after he died in 1972, reports The Sun .
She attended a Quaker School before qualifying as a nurse in 1926 and then worked at Darlington Hospital as a ward sister and then a theatre sister at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough.
She was matron at Richmond Hospital, where she worked during the Second World War.
