John Mosely Turner

John Mosely Turner (15 June 1856 – 21 March 1968) was a British supercentenarian and the oldest recognised living person for more than two years, after the death of Hannah Smith in January 1966. Turner is the first British man verified to reach the age of 110.

Born in Mitcham, Turner worked as a silk print cutter and was a teetotaller. He became blind at the age of 73. Turner died at his home in Tottenham in 1968 at the age of 111 years, 280 days.