Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon

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SIR HENRY WILLIAM ('HARRY') DUFF GORDON, YOUNGER BROTHER OF SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON   SIR HENRY WILLIAM ('HARRY') DUFF GORDON, YOUNGER BROTHER OF SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON
1910
SIR COSMO AND LADY DUFF GORDON   SIR COSMO AND LADY DUFF GORDON
Cosmo and Lucy Duff Gordon at Maryculter House, their country seat near Aberdeen. Taken in 1900 at the end of their honeymoon, this is the earliest known photo of the couple together and one of the few of Cosmo in his Gordon Highlanders regalia...
1900
Time Magazine MILESTONES
Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife, Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; in London....
4th May 1931
Dallas Times-Herald LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD
obituary...
22nd April 1935
New York Times SIR COSMO DUFF-GORDON
Survivor of Titanic Disaster Dies in London at Age of 68 --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 20---Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, survivor of the Titanic disaster of 1912, died in London today at the age of 6...
21st April 1931
SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON   SIR COSMO EDMUND DUFF GORDON (AT RIGHT) WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH FENCING TEAM AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON
1908
New York Times THE DUFF GORDONS
From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir...
17th April 1912
Associated Press PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD
By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri...
16th April 1912
Daily Graphic SOME OF THE SAVED
LADY DUFF-GORDON, COUNTESS OF ROTHES, WHITE STAR CHAIRMAN. The Titanic's saved include--- Lady Duff-Gordon--who carries on the famous firm of "Madame Lucile"--and her husband, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. They sailed incognito as Mr. and Mr...
20th April 1912
New York Times LADY DUFF-GORDON TO OPEN A SHOP HERE
Lady Duff-Gordon, wife of Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, fifth baronet of that name, who under the firm name of Lucile conducts a dressmaking establishment in London, is in this city making arrangements to open a similar place here.  She has taken a house...
11th January 1910
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON AND HUSBAND AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC
New York, April 17--When the first passenger list of the Titanic was published in Monday's papers there was much curiosity over the identity of "Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," who were named as among those on board. The reporters on duty at the offices of the...
17th April 1912
New York American DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON
Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,...
22nd April 1935
New York Sun NOTED STYLIST DIES IN LONDON
Lady Duff Gordon Designed Fashions for Royalty...
22nd April 1935
The Times THE OLYMPIAN GAMES
The English team for the Olympian games in Athens next April has not yet been definitely chosen. In consequence of Mr C. Leaf Daniel's having been asked to be Captain of the Amateur Fencing Association's team to Paris he cannot go to Athens, and h...
28th February 1906
PORTRAIT OF SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON   PORTRAIT OF SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON
1908
SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON IN 1896, AGE 34 Daily Sketch SIR COSMO DUFF GORDON IN 1896, AGE 34
portrait...
24th April 1912
New York Times BETWEEN SIPS OF TEA
Lady Duff-Gordon is one of the English titled women who are "in trade," as it is termed in England. She started a dress-making establishment some years since in London, and, having energy and taste, it has proved most successful. She is a Canadian...
11th December 1904
The Times THE TITANIC INQUIRY: LADY DUFF GORDON'S EVIDENCE
The inquiry into the loss of the Titanic was resumed yesterday by Lord Mersey and his Assessors. There was no diminution in the public interest taken in the proceedings. Among those present were Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, Lady St. Helier, L...
21st May 1912
New York Times PERSONAL - LADY DUFF GORDON
The death of Lady DUFF GORDON was announced in London on July 17.  Her Ladyship, who wielded an easy and agreeable pen, was one of the best known writers on Egyptian life and scenery.  Lady DUFF GORDON had long been consumptive, and, as the atmosp...
29th July 1869
LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1910   LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1910
Paparazzi news photo of Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon arriving for a dinner party in her honor at the Waldorf Astoria, January 1910....
1910
New York Times LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES
Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...
22nd April 1935
New York Times CONSULT BURKE'S PEERAGE
For News of the Arrival Here of the Sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn --- Lady Duff Gordon, a sister of Mrs. Elinor Glyn, arrived yesterday at the Hotel Plaza.  Lady Duff Gordon went to her room.  Presently Mrs. Glyn approached the inquir...
21st November 1907
LADY DUFF GORDON   LADY DUFF GORDON
Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ...
1904
LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1915   LUCY DUFF GORDON IN 1915
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff Gordon photographed by Ira L. Hill, New York, Jan. 1915...
1915
Newark Star STENGEL DENIES BRIBES WERE GIVEN TO SAILORS
Newark Man Says Tale Told by Seaman as to "Money Boat" in Which He Left Titanic is Untrue --- Reports that bribes were offered the sailors who manned the boat in which C. E. Henry Stengel of Newark; Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-...
24th April 1912
New York Times SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD
Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé  Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist.  Her mother marrie...
4th August 1907
New York Times LADY DUFF-GORDON SAILS
Coming to Open an American Branch of Her London Costume Shop --- SpeciaI Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Feb. 26---Lady Duff-Gordon sailed on the Lusitania to-day to put the finishing touch...
27th February 1910
DISCRETIONS AND INDISCRETIONS   DISCRETIONS AND INDISCRETIONS
The autobiography of couturière and first class Titanic passenger Lady Duff Gordon published in 1932...
New York Times PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS
Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger...
5th March 1910
New York Times SOCIAL NOTES
Mrs. Wilber Bloodgood will give a large reception on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 26, at her home, 49 East Thirty-fourth Street, for Mrs. Elinor Glyn, the English writer, and Lady Duff Gordon. ********** New York Times, 26 December 190...
21st December 1907
New York Times MARY GARDEN'S SIDE IN SUIT
Bill for Gowns "Outrageous," Her Lawyer Wrote Lucille, Ltd. --- A statement in behalf of Mary Garden was made yesterday by her attorney, Jacob Klein, concerning the suit filed against her in the Supreme Court on Tuesday by Lucille, Ltd...
22nd May 1919
Chicago Evening Post AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN
Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic...
16th April 1912
ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL   ELINOR GLIN ON HER SISTER LADY DUFF GORDON'S TITANIC ORDEAL
One of a series of pages illustrating a detailed article by Elinor Glin, one of the "It" Girls, relating to the Titanic ordeal and the experiences and attitudes of those it involved. Elinor's sister, Lady Duff Gordon, was prominently saved with...
New York Times FASHION DISPLAY AT PALACE
Lady Duff-Gordon Appears far a War Charity---Herman Timberg --- A fashion display staged by Lady Duff-Gordon, and including that personage herself as an added attraction, was the mecca that drew an unusually large crowd to the Palace T...
4th December 1917
New York Times LADY DUFF GORDON SUES
Husband of the Former Mrs. Chapman Refuses to Pay for Valuable Gowns --- Lady Duff Gordon, who, under the name of Lucile, Ltd., of London and Paris, sells feminine apparel of her own design, is suing for $600 in the City Court P...
14th April 1911
LADY DUFF GORDON CROCHET BOOK   LADY DUFF GORDON CROCHET BOOK
LUCY DUFF GORDON, PHOTO BY MARTIN   LUCY DUFF GORDON, PHOTO BY MARTIN
1910
ELINOR GLYN, SISTER OF LUCY DUFF GORDON   ELINOR GLYN, SISTER OF LUCY DUFF GORDON
1902
LUCY DUFF GORDON, PORTRAIT BY RITA MARTIN, LONDON   LUCY DUFF GORDON, PORTRAIT BY RITA MARTIN, LONDON
1910
LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON, PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAMPBELL, NEW YORK   LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON, PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAMPBELL, NEW YORK
1910
LUCY DUFF GORDON AND HER PEKINGESE, 'FLEURETTE,' PHOTOGRAPHED BY GENTHE   LUCY DUFF GORDON AND HER PEKINGESE, 'FLEURETTE,' PHOTOGRAPHED BY GENTHE
1919
Chicago Examiner STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON
STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Ast...
16th December 1913
PORTRAIT OF LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON AT WORK IN HER NEW YORK SALON, BY ARNOLD GENTHE   PORTRAIT OF LUCY, LADY DUFF GORDON AT WORK IN HER NEW YORK SALON, BY ARNOLD GENTHE
1916
Press Association TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000
A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...
20th October 2010
New York Times Book Review BOOKS AND MEN
Elinor Glyn, author of "The Visits of Elizabeth" and the recently published "Reflections of Ambrosine," is Mrs. Clayton Glyn, a sister of Lady Duff Gordon.  She is an intimate friend of Lady Warwick.  Lady Gordon is one of the well-known titled En...
15th November 1902
New York Times LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED
Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple...
6th June 1911
PORTRAIT OF LUCY DUFF GORDON BY MARCEAU, NEW YORK   PORTRAIT OF LUCY DUFF GORDON BY MARCEAU, NEW YORK
1910
New York Times FASHIONS AT THE PALACE
Lady Duff-Gordon and Her Models Back---Effective War Play ---The changing season, with its accompanying change in feminine fashions, brought Lady Duff-Gordon and her gorgeously clad models back to the Palace Theatre yesterday a...
28th May 1918
Daily Sketch DEATH OF LUCILE
Page 1 Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, famous as "Lucile," the fashion expert whose articles in the Daily Sketch were for years a notable and most popular feature has died in Putney. Her husband Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, Bt., died in April four y...
22nd April 1935
New York Times SOCIETY AT HOME AND ABROAD
Mrs. Elinor Glyn and her sister, Lady Duff Gordon, have been visiting in Washington.  Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce entertained at luncheon for them one day this week. [This paragraph appeared in a long society column, the balance of which is ...
12th January 1908
Denver Post LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER
Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ...
19th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star ETHEL FLORA FORTUNE GORDON
Page 36, column 6 On Tues., March 21, 1961, at her home, 1 Clarendon Ave., Toronto, Ethel F. Fortune, widow of Crawford Gordon, mother of Crawford Gordon and William Fortune Gordon. A private service was held at the funeral chapel of ...
22nd March 1961
New York Times NEW INCORPORATIONS
Special to The New York Times --- ALBANY, Jan. 30---Twenty-five new corporations, with an aggregate capital stock of $1,647,000, were chartered today. They include: Lady Duff-Gordon Costume Co., Manhattan, $5,...
31st January 1918
New York Times LUCILE'S CREDITORS FORCE RECEIVERSHIP
Dressmakers Established by Lady Duff Gordon Owe $175,000, Have $75,000 --- HER $200 A WEEK UNPAID --- General Business Blamed and Report Is Denied of Bad Bills Among Patrons --- Lucile, Ltd., dressmakers, 19 East Fifty-f...
21st March 1922
New York Times RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON
Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Under­valued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f...
27th May 1911
New York Times LATEST DEALINGS IN REALTY FIELD
Lady Duff Gordon, who some months ago opened a dressmaking establishment at 17 West Thirty-sixth Street under the name of "Lucile," has leased from the Robert Goelet estate the building at 34 and 36 East Fifty-first Street. [Note: This par...
11th June 1911
Western Morning News UGBOROUGH MAN'S STORY
J. Horswell (sic), a sailor, residing in Southampton, said though he was now lodging at Southampton, he hailed from Ugborough. He acted as bowman in one of the emergency boats, and among the passengers with them were Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. ...
29th April 1912
New York Times LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED
All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ...
28th May 1911
  STONE FAMILY INFORMATION
Edmund Stone was born in Southampton in 1879. He was the son of William Stone (Railway Inspector) and Agnes Mary Jane Stone. In 1881 the UK Census has the family at 7 Brinton's Terrace, Southampton. With William and Agnes Stone were their 4 ...
Time Magazine MILESTONES
Died. Lady Duff Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), 71, famed dress designer, long-time president of Lucile, Ltd (now defunct), Titanic survivor, sister of novelist Elinor Glyn; after six months' illness; in London. She was credited with the first split skirt,...
29th April 1935
Toronto Daily Star MRS. E.F. GORDON
Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...
22nd March 1961
New York Times LUCILLE, LIMITED, MANAGER PLEADS
Thomas J. Duggan, Manager of Lucile, Limited, of 17 West Thirty-sixth Street, who is charged with the undervaluation of gowns and dress models, entered a formal plea of not guilty, before Judge Archbald in the Criminal Branch of the United States ...
7th July 1911
The Scotsman THE MAURETANIA'S SECOND VOYAGE
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14th December 1907
New York Times LATEST ITEMS ABOUT THE DOINGS OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES [Copyright 1902.] London, Sept. 12---George Meredith is to write the introduction to the revised edition of Lady Duff-Gordon's "Letters from Egypt."  It will be recalled that one series appeared ...
13th September 1902
Evening World TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF
Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li...
22nd April 1912
SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED Titanic Review SHADOW OF THE TITANIC: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORIES OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED
Mark Chirnside
Mark Chirnside reviews Andrew Wilson's new book exploring the later lives of Titanic's survivors....
29th November 2011
New York Times CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON
After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -...
26th May 1911
New York Times LADY DUFF GORDON SEES CHNIATOWN
Ciceroned by Chuck Conners, "an Admirable Character in His Place" --- COMPLIMENTS BY BOTH --- Mr. Conners Says He Always Did Like Socialist Hair and Mrs. Glyn Reminded Him of "Her Nobs" --- Lady Duff Gordon of Londo...
23rd December 1907
Boston Globe PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS
Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...
16th April 1912
GRAVE OF ETHEL F. FORTUNE AND HUSBAND CRAWFORD GORDON   GRAVE OF ETHEL F. FORTUNE AND HUSBAND CRAWFORD GORDON
New York Times LEGAL NOTICE
SUPREME COURT-STATE OF NEW YORK, New York County.---In the matter of the Petition of LUCILE, LIMITED, for authority to change its name to LUCILE, LIMITED, NEW YORK AND PARIS.--Notice is hereby given that Lucile, Limited, a corporation organized ...
24th May 1910
Records of Grace Church, URI Archives, Special Collections EUGENE'S BAPTISM AT GRACE CHURCH
From the records of Grace Episcopal Church, Providence Rhode Island: Eugene Joseph Abbott was baptised on April 2, 1904, born March 31, 1898. Sponsors: Rhoda (Rosa) Abbott and Emil Shultey Presider: The Rev. Edmund Rousmaniere, Rector. Twenty...
1904
  MEMORIAL
In Memory of William Stone, late Inspector of L & S W Railway, died November 13th 1909 aged 64. Also of Agnes Mary Jane, wife of the above, died March 3rd 1929 aged 85. Also of Edmund Stone, son of the above, who was lost ...
Newark Star C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES
Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ...
19th April 1912
New York Times DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT
Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among...
17th February 1912
Chicago Tribune DEATHS ELSEWHERE
Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...
23rd December 1969
New York Times ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD
Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt.  Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y...
27th April 1912
New York Times THE CRINOLINE QUESTION
THE CRINOLINE QUESTION --- Some Modistes Scout Idea of Suggested Revival---Others Like It --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Sept. 4---The question whether the crinolin...
17th September 1911
Hudson Observer WEST HOBOKEN MAN'S RELATIVES HAVE NOT ABANDONED ALL HOPE
Nothing has been heard of John Ashby, listed as second cabin passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, and the family, in West Hoboken, with the Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, would be pleased for any information. No satisfaction can be obtained at the Whit...
22nd April 1912
RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL   RADIO INTERVIEW WITH ALBERT HORSWILL
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10th May 1934
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#5)
Yesterday proceedings in the tournament at the Association Ground, Moore Park, were considerably interfered with by the weather, which was threatening in the morning, a...
7th May 1885
New York Times WAR UPSETS WEDDING PLAN
P. E. Mock Unable to Leave Germany to Marry Miss Alvis Ehrman --- The plans for the wedding of Miss Alvis Constance and Philipp Edmund Mock have been upset by the European war. The wedding was to have taken place on Aug. 22 at Pocantic...
21st August 1912
  FREDERICK SHEATH
Brian J. Ticehurst
FREDERICK SHEATH was born in 1892 at number 12 Bell Street, Southampton, the house was a two-up, two-down terraced house with an outside toilet and no garden. Bell Street was situated in the lower, poorer part of town and not f...
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS (#6)
The last day's play in this tournament took place yesterday. The weather was threatening in the morning, and in the afternoon it rained steadily and persistently, which did not, however, prevent a fair number of spectators...
8th May 1885
New York Times S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER
S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. Mr. Kempner was a native of New York, where he began his career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa fro...
4th August 1987
  NORTHLEW, DEVON -1901 CENSUS
John Hall Lovell was born at Pynda Farm in the parish of Hatherleigh, mid-Devon in early 1892. He remained at that address until 1897 when he and the family moved to Lower Gorhuish Farm in the parish of Northlew. The 1901 censu...
31st March 1901
NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS Titanic Research NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS
Peter Engberg
Explore the difficulties in producing a credible list of lifeboat placements....
11th July 1999
Worcester Telegram NO SIGN OF WRECK
Article...
18th April 1912
New York Times MRS. GUGGENHEIM'S DANCE
Debutante, Miss Benita Guggenheim, Receives with Mother at St. Regis --- Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 763 Fifth Avenue gave a dance last night at the St. Regis for her débutante daughter, Miss Benita Guggenheim. Mrs. Gugge...
25th December 1911
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#3)
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5th May 1885
New York Times MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD
Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...
16th April 1912
A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS Titanic Research A PEN TO SINK A THOUSAND SHIPS
Lee Kendall
THE BRITISH TITANIC INQUIRY AND THE ART OF FORTUNINO MATANIA Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) was, without doubt, the greatest of the Edwardian illustrators, in the long sha...
7th March 2006
New York Times R. W. DANIEL MARRIES MRS. C. B. CHRISTIAN
President of Liberty National Bank Weds as Third Wife Distant Relative in Virginia --- Special to The New York Times --- RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 10---Robert W. Daniel, president of the Liberty National Bank of New York, and Mr...
11th October 1929
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#4)
The second day's play at the Association Ground, Moore Park, resulted in some very interesting and exciting matches. There was again a large and fashionable attendance. The committee, with a view of making the affair more complete, ...
6th May 1885
  FAMILY GRAVESTONE
In loving memory of Sarah Jane, the beloved wife of Robert Henry Davies who died 17th May 1914 aged 62 Years "Peace Perfect Peace". Also Gordon Raleigh, second son of the above who lost his life in Tita...
R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY.   R.M.S. TITANIC: UNIQUE ORIGINAL PLAN USED THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH TITANIC ENQUIRY.
A large scales plan of the Titanic used during the Titanic enquiry is offered for sale......
Hudson Observer MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR TITANIC VICTIM
Family of John Ashby of West Hoboken Abandon Hope for Him ---------- Until to-day the family of John Ashby, of West Hoboken, had some hope for his recovery, but are now convinced that there is no hope of him showing up alive, ...
23rd April 1912
Newark Evening News STENGEL TELLS TRAGEDY STORY
Home with Wife, Depicts Wreck Scenes and Perils of Survivors. ---------- DEATH NEAR, VICTIMS JOKED ---------- Days of suspense had been borne by the family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of 1075 Broad str...
19th April 1912
Boston Daily Globe WOMAN LEAPS FROM DEVONIAN
Formerly Stewardess on the Titanic Passengers on the Leyland Line steamship Devonian, in yesterday afternoon from Liverpool, reported that Mrs. Anna Robinson, a widow, aged 44, who was...
11th October 1914
New York Times MISS LUCILE CARTER A BUD IN NEWPORT
--- Daughter of Mrs. George Brooke of Philadelphia Greeted by Society Throng --- HER BOW AT DINNER DANCE --- Mrs. Beeckman and Mrs. Perin Fly in Hydröaeroplane with E. E. Dodge---Tennis Tourney Continues ---...
12th August 1916
MADAME LUCILE: A LIFE IN STYLE Titanic Research MADAME LUCILE: A LIFE IN STYLE
Randy Bryan Bigham
The following is an excerpt from the prologue of Lucile - Her Life by Design, Randy Bigham's pending biography of Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon (1863-1935), the renowned Edw...
29th April 2003
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT (#2)
The draw for the undermentioned matches has resulted as follows: 1.LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES Miss Lee plays Miss Rodd Miss Fitzgerald plays Miss Scarvell Miss Bloxsome plays Miss Lamb...
4th May 1885
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Doris Robertson Polley
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
Daily Sketch TEDDY SMITH HERO: BOYHOOD RECOLLECTIONS OF THE TITANIC'S CAPTAIN
A Genial Schoolfellow "Teddy Smith has gone down with his ship, and out of the six of us lads who used to be schoolmates together only one is now left - myself." From every corner of England, Mrs. Smith, the widow of the...
25th April 1912
  EDWARD THOMAS STONE FAMILY INFORMATION
Edward Thomas Stone was born in 1882/83 in Shirley, Southampton. He himself quotes his birthplace as Cornwall when signing on Titanic but this appears to be erroneous. (It is currently assumed that he lived there for a while when young). He was the ...
  STANLEY LORD IN CONVERSATION WITH LESLIE HARRISON
Leslie Harrison
Extracts from a conversation between Captain Stanley Lord and Leslie Harrison, held on 19 August 1961....
19th August 1961
New York Times GIVE LIGHTHOUSE FOR TITANIC'S DEAD
Tower on Seamen's Institute Dedicated Before Those Who Created It --- TRIBUTES OF CLERGYMEN --- Light Will Shine for All Lower Harbor, and Time Ball Will Indicate Exact Noon --- With services commemorating th...
16th April 1913
Billboard Magazine HENRY B. HARRIS
Loses Life When Ill-Fated Titanic Sinks – Other Victims Of Disaster Connected With Amusement Field Include Albert A. Stewart, Emil Brandeis and Franz Addelmann – Dorothy Gibson Saved New York, April 20 (Special to Billb...
27th April 1912
New York Times ROBERT W. DANIEL, EX-BANKER HERE, 56
Virginia State Senator, Once Head of Liberty National, Stricken in Richmond --- OWNED HISTORIC ESTATE --- Brandon-on James Was Visited by Many Presidents---Was Survivor of the Titanic --- RICHMOND, Va., Dec. ...
21st December 1940
GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC Titanic Research GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC
Earl Chapman
Were shots fired as the Titanic went down? If so whom and toward whom?...
30th July 2001
  THE TITANIC
Frank Blackmarr
The story of the most awful shipwreck of modern times may not be a pleasant subject for either the relator or the hearers but there is an interest in the details of the loss of the Titanic which warrents me in telling the story. And having been on...
Unidentified Newspaper OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY]
Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ...
1980
HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY Titanic Review HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC. OR THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY
Senan Molony
Ismay as Ecce Homo...
11th August 2011
  MME. AUBART: LUXURY LOST
After her rescue from Titanic, French singer Leontine Pauline ("Ninette") Aubart, better remembered as the mistress of American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, wrote the following letter to the White Star Line, itemizing her lost possessions: ...
1st May 1912
Birkenhead News BIRKENHEAD STEWARDESS MISS STAP'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
THE EXPERIENCES OF A BIRKENHEAD STEWARDESS MISS STAP'S GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISASTER...
4th May 2011
New York Times J. J. ASTOR MARRIES GERTRUDE GRETSCH
Son of the Late Colonel John Jacob Astor Weds Alumna of Finch at Her Home --- The marriage of Miss Gertrude Gretsch, daughter of Mrs. Walter Gretsch of 3 East Seventy-seventh Street and the late Mr. Gretsch, to John Jacob Astor of 998 F...
19th August 1944
  CABIN ALLOCATIONS
The allocation of cabins on the Titanic is a source of continuing interest and endless speculation. Apart from the recollections of survivors and a few tickets and boarding cards, the only authoritative source of c...
18th July 2004
CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW? Titanic Research CSI TITANIC : WHO DIED HOW?
Luke Owens
One of the iconic images many of us carry from the sinking of Titanic is of the 705 people in lifeboats listening to the death cries of 1,500-plus people drowning in the North Atlantic after the ship sank. The trouble is, that&rsq...
26th June 2007
The Times OBITUARY : THE REV E.C. & MRS CARTER
...
20th April 1912
TITANIC (1888) Voyage TITANIC (1888)
John P. Eaton
Smith & Service (1888-1903) Port of Registry: Belfast , Ireland Flag of Registry: British Funnel: Black ...
22nd November 2004
THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT Titanic Research THE AVERAGE LIFEBOAT
Senan Molony
Updated! “THERE are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain, Autobiography But there are also, when dealing with statistics, some d...
17th December 2004
Washington Times MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK
Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my...
19th April 1912
The Toronto World WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME
--------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...
17th April 1912
 

 
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