A CENTENARIAN
DEATH OF LONDON'S OLDEST INHABITANT. ' .
(DOTTED .PRESS ASSOCIATION-COKmOBT.) (AUSTRALIAN-.NBW ZEALAND CABLE "ASSOCIATION.) (Received 29th May, 12.30 p.m.) :'■.": LONDON, 28th May. Miss Elizabeth Lisle, aged 104 years London s oldest inhabitant, who was presented at Queen Victoria's ' Court 80 years ago, died in her sleep; She met many nineteenth century notabilities, including Charles; Dickens, Cardinal .New--man, Benjamin Disraeli, and Mrs Browning. She often appeared publicly •as an elocutionist, and repeated lon^ passages from "Hamlet." After her hun-dredth-birthday, .she refused to be treated as an invalid, and declared : "I've lived longer than most modern girls will with' their lipsticks and powder-puffs." bne scorned their short skirts, cigarettes paint, and powder. •.-.-•. ,- ; ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 29 May 1925, Page 7
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110A CENTENARIAN Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 124, 29 May 1925, Page 7
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