16 Facts About Ivy Bean

Ivy Lesly Bean was a British internet personality, known for being the oldest person in the world on Twitter and one of the oldest users of Facebook.

Ivy Bean Asquith was born in Bradford, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as one of seven children.

Ivy Bean went to school at James Street School in Thornton and left at 14 to go and work at the Prospect Mill.

Ivy Bean later married Harold Bean, a soldier in the Royal Army Service Corps who briefly served in North Africa.

Ivy Bean had worked for Crossland for about 18 years when he died, and she decided it was time to retire.

Several years after this, Ivy Bean retired for the second time, aged 73, a little while after her husband Harold had died at the age of 75.

Ivy Bean would remain on her own until the age of 92, when she moved into a residential home.

Ivy Bean remained there for ten years, until the home closed down, and she moved into another care facility a week before her 102nd birthday.

In 2007, Ivy Bean first accessed the internet via a computer given to her care home by social services.

In 2008, at the age of 102, Ivy Bean joined Facebook, making her one of its oldest members.

Ivy Bean discussed her life in a care home, her favourite meal, and episodes of Deal or No Deal she had seen.

Ivy Bean visited Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah in Downing Street early in 2010.

Some time after creating her Facebook page, Ivy Bean joined Twitter, when she had surpassed the maximum number of friends allowed by Facebook at the time.

When Ivy Bean died, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter.

Ivy Bean remained with him until his death in 1981, and did not remarry.

Ivy Bean had a daughter, Sandra, who survived her, as well as two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.