Oldest Briton dies aged 113!

Britain's oldest person has died just six weeks short of her 114th birthday.

Bessie Cam, 113, was officially crowned the oldest Brit in July 2016 when the last person to have the crown died.

The former nurse born in North Yorkshire on June 20, 1904, died at a care home in Rotherham.

Arthur Balfour was British prime minister when Bessie was born, and she has seen twenty since.

Bessie Camm was a nurse and once cared for William Hague. She has died just six weeks before her 114th birthday

Bessie Camm's husband John died in 1972. She worked as a nurse and later a ward sister

Bessie who was the tenth oldest person in the world attended a Quaker School before qualifying as a nurse in 1926 at Darlington Hospital.


She went on to become a ward sister and then a theatre sister at Montagu Hospital in Mexborough.

Bessie worked as a Matron at Richmond Hospital, North Yorskhire, during the Second World War.