Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Elizabeth Leatherton

Carte de visite
Private collection of James Morley
Note from James Morley (Facebook, 10 December 2017)
 
This is Elizabeth Leatherton who is listed in the 1871 census as aged 102, living at the Red Lion in Tring. Letters were published in The Times in 1874 about "The Tring Centenarian" Elizabeth or Betty Leatherland and a detailed article about her appeared in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol 5, 1876 pp. 82-101 (under the name Leatherlund). It says

"The people of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire have been generally familiar with her stooping figure, red cloak, and stick for the last fifty years, particularly in harvest time, when this tough old gipsy was very handy with the sickle. Her last effort of this description, in the field, was witnessed by large numbers of persons, a photograph of her, with a sheaf of wheat on her knees, being taken by Mr Piggott of Leighton Buzzard. For the last twelve years she lodged at Mr Saw's, Frogmore Street, Tring …".

The article (published in 1876 but written a little earlier) refers to her death in January 1875 aged 112.
 
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