Violet Brown

Early life Brown was born as Violet Mosse on 10 March 1900, and was one of four children born in Duanvale, Trelawny, British Jamaica, to John Mosse, who was a sugar boiler, and Elizabeth Riley.

When asked about the reasons for her longevity, Brown claimed there was no secret formula to her long life, telling the Jamaica Gleaner: "Really and truly, when people ask what I eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don't drink rum and dem tings." She also credited her longevity to eating three eggs a day, two of them raw.

She is the oldest verified Jamaican person ever and the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica. Her date of birth was variously reported as 4 March 1900, 10 March 1900

Brown was born in Jamaica when it was a part of the British Empire and she was the last known subject of Queen Victoria.

Personal life Brown married Augustus Gaynor Brown, with whom she had one daughter. Her first child, Harland Fairweather, died on 19 April 2017, aged . He is believed to have been the oldest person with a living parent.

Death Brown died on 15 September 2017 at a hospital in Montego Bay, Saint James Parish, at the age of 117, after being diagnosed with dehydration and irregular heartbeat a week prior. Following her death, Nabi Tajima became the oldest living person and the last living person born in the 19th century.