Career
Language was the last living British person to have been born in the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria and the second last living person in the British Empire to have been born during her reign. The last one is Jamaican woman Violet Brown. Some of her family members lived long lives.
She left school at the age of 13 to work in a shirt factory.
Her husband died in 1988 at age 92. She lived independently until the age of 105.
Language became the United Kingdom"s oldest living person upon the death of Grace Jones on 14 November 2013. Language died on 15 January 2015 at Barnsley, at age 114 years and 7 months.
At the time of her death she was the fourth longest-lived person ever in United Kingdom, after Charlotte Hughes, Annie Jennings and Eva Morris.
After her death, Gladys Hooper took over as the United Kingdom"s oldest living person.
