Edward John Smith

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	EDWARD JOHN SMITH WITH DOG	1912
	HELEN MELVILLE SMITH The daughter of master mariner Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor Pennington, was born on Saturday 2nd April 1898 at 20 Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Litherland, near Liverpool. The birth was registered by Edward John Smith on 3rd May 1898. Helen Melvi...
	CAPTAIN SMITH AND BOY ON BRIDGE
	LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN SMITH	11th April 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Smith Edward John. of 17 Marine Crescent, Waterloo, Liverpool. Master Mariner. Probate issued: London 15th November 1912 to Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow. Effects £3,186.4.6d....	15th November 1912
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH From 'Le Petit Journal'...	17th April 1912
clickliverpool.com	RELATIVE DISCOVERS TITANIC CAPTAIN'S TELESCOPE IN THE ATTIC A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic. The brass eyepiece, kept in an old whisky bottle box, bears the name "Edward John Smith" who was the master of the ill-fated ocean liner that sank in 1912. It also carries an engraved image of the Titanic's sister ship - RMS Olympic - which Smith commanded for ten months. The three-foot long spyglass was identified by auctioneer John Crane after he was invited to value artefacts belonging to a distant relative of Captain Smith....	8th July 2011
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
	CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN SMITH ON OLYMPIC From 'Sinking of the Titanic'...	May 1911
	BAPTISM REGISTER, ST KEVERNE CHURCH, CORNWALL The Baptism Register of St. Keverne Church shows that John Richard Jago Smith was baptised at the parish church on 31 December 1877. His father was John Smith, farmer of Trevithian and his mother was Mary Augusta Smith....	1877
	PROBATE INFORMATION SMITH John Richard Jago of 45 Atherley Road Southampton sorting clerk died 15 April 1912 at sea Administration Winchester 10 August 1912 to John Smith farmer. Effects £556 12s 1d. ...	1912
The Times	CAPTAIN E. J. SMITH MEMORIAL A committee has been formed for the purpose of arranging for the erection of a suitable memorial to the late Commander Edward John Smith RNR, the Captain of the Titanic. It is proposed that it should take the two-fold form of ...	27th September 1913
expressandstar.com	CAMPAIGN TO TAKE CAPTAIN'S STATUE 'HOME' A statue of the captain of the ill-fated Titanic could be moved to his home city almost 100 years after being rejected by his townsfolk. Captain Edward John Smith’s statue was put up in Beacon Park, Lichfield, in 1914 because Stoke-on-Trent refused it. They did not wish to be associated with the disastrous liner. A campaign has now been started to get the bronze statue moved to Captain Smith’s home town of Hanley. But Lichfield council bosses want to keep it....	30th August 2011
Chicago Examiner	FRIEND TELLS HOW TITANIC COMMANDER MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED INSISTS CAPT. SMITH LIVES Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped Baltimore, md., July 21---Still emphatic in his assertions that he saw Captain E. J. Smith, who is supposed ...	22nd July 1912
Vallejo Times-Herald	'TITANIC' CREW READY TO DOCK AND ROLL Capt. Edward John Smith was 62 with white beard. Joe Harney is 28 and clean-shaven. No matter. When the recent University of California, Davis graduate dons faux facial fur, jacket replete with medals and sword, he'll be the doomed skipper of the "Titanic."...	5th October 2007
	CAPTAIN SMITH WAS TUSSAUDS EXHIBIT 1919 Madame Tussaud & Sons Catalogue entry 27. Commander Edward J. Smith, R.N.R., born 1853. Commander Smith was Captain of the White Star liner ''Titanic'' which went down in the Atlantic on 14 April, 1912, during her maiden voyage t...
thestar.com	TORONTO TITANIC PASSENGER ARTHUR GODREY PEUCHEN HAD QUALMS ABOUT CAPTAIN SMITH R.M.S. Titanic left Southampton, England, at noon on April 10, 1912, and it wasn’t long before the fears of Toronto’s Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen started to seem like prophecy. An experienced yachtsman himself, Peuchen thought Capt. Edward John Smith was, at 62, too old, and his career too star-crossed, to be guiding such a mammoth vessel on her maiden voyage. Sure enough, Titanic was barely underway when disaster loomed. As she churned out a narrow channel past two ships moored together at the dock, Titanic’s movement caused the mooring ropes to snap on one of those ships, New York....	10th March 2012
thespec.com	TITANIC SURVIVOR MAJ. ARTHUR PEUCHEN WAS SCORNED BACK HOME Maj. Arthur Peuchen was barely installed in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria when he began regaling newspaper reporters with vivid tales of his escape and scathing denunciations of Titanic’s captain, Edward John Smith, and of the White Star Line’s managing director, J. Bruce Ismay, whom he accused of “criminal negligence. “I cannot repeat too strongly that J. Bruce Ismay knew of the presence of icebergs, but deliberately took a chance, for reasons which he can best explain.” Peuchen became a star witness at the ensuing U.S. Senate investigation of the Titanic horror. By then, he’d toned down his criticism of Capt. Smith, but not much else....	14th March 2012
thisisstaffordshire.co.uk	UP FOR SALE: HOUSE WHERE TITANIC CAPTAIN WAS BORN THE house where Titanic captain Edward John Smith was born is up for sale. The skipper of the ill-fated liner grew up in the two-bed Victorian terrace in Well Street, Hanley, which is now on the market for £80,000....	20th March 2012
	FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and...
Washington Times	ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a...	19th April 1912
Daily Express	CAPTAIN SMITH AND SIGNOR MARCONI DUMMIES Madame Tussaud's Exhibition - Several additions to this exhibition have been made since Easter; and the management have made various alterations in the building. The Titanic disaster is recalled by Mr John Tussaud's model of Captain Smith, ...	27th April 1912
Titanic Review	E.J. THE STORY OF EDWARD J. SMITH. CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC Brian J. Ticehurst THIS is Gary Coopers second book on the RMS Titanic's Captain. His first book The Man Wh...	5th May 2009
	CAPTAIN SMITHS GRANDCHILDREN Priscilla Russell-Cooke Phipps and her twin brother Simon were born June 18, 1923 to Captain E. J. Smith's only child, Helen Melville Smith Russell-Cooke. Simon died in 1944 while serving in WWII having never married. Priscilla married in 1946 to a ...
Newark Star	AWAIT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Up to late last night the body of John S. March, of 59 Emmett street, one of the five United States mail clerks who lost their lives in the recent Titanic disaster, had not reached the city and no word has received by the firm of Smith & Smith, 944 B...	6th May 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal	COMPLAIN OF CONDITION OF BODY OF JOHN MARCH The body of John S. March, one of the five mail clerks of the steamship Titanic and father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles street, reached Newark yesterday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was taken charge of immediately by the undertaking firm o...	8th May 1912
	EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt...	2003
	EDWARD JAMES WILLIAM ROGERS (FAMILY RESEARCH) Edward James William Rogers was born on 9th September 1880, to Robert James Rogers and his wife Priscilla Susan (nee Bagley). His father was a bricklayer and the family lived at 3 Robert Street, North Woolwich. Edward JW was baptized on 3rd November ...	2003
Chicago Tribune	MORGAN DINNER RECALLED Friendship of Family for Capt. Smith Causes Withdrawal of Invitations _______ N...	17th April 1912
Chicago Examiner	SECOND TITANIC BABY BORN Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30---Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York wired congratulations today to Mrs. Mary Eloise Smith, one of the two "Honeymoon" widows of the Titanic disaster, to whom a son was born at the Jewish Hospital here. As...	1st December 1912
New York Times	TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...	25th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	JAMES CLINCH SMITH SAW MUCH HAPPINESS AHEAD It is recalled that James Clinch Smith, whose name is on the list of those aboard the Titanic but not among those of the survivors, went abroad to the [sic] effect a reconciliation with is wife. She has been intensely interested in music, almost, it...	17th April 1912
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M...	18th April 1912
	EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S...
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND: JAMES SMITH (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 681. Smith, John, father. Class B dependent. (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 227. Smith, Hannah Davidson, widow. Child: Ian...	March 1913
New York Herald	TITANIC SURVIVORS KEEP THEIR WEDDING QUIET Mrs. E. H. Smith and Mr. R. W. Daniel Married in New York Last August --- [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.] PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Monday---Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith, survivor of the Titanic disaster, was married August 18 ...	27th October 1914
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TELESCOPE BELONGING TO TITANIC CAPTAIN FAILS TO SELL - LIVERPOOL ECHO Chief among the items going under the hammer at the Cato Crane auction house was a telescope which belonged to the captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith. He used it while serving on board the sister ship to the Titanic, ......	29th July 2011
The Times	SIR EDWARD HARLAND BECOMES AN M.P. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE BELFAST (NORTH DIVISION) The nomination for North Belfast took place yesterday. Six papers containing the names of Sir John Preston, Sir William Quartus Ewart, and Mr. Thomas M'Cormick (secretary of...	13th August 1889
Chicago Tribune	LONDON PAPERS ATTACK SMITH Several more papers severely attack the American inquiry. The Standard says Senator Smith "is rather less qualified for such a task than any individual picked up in an American street car." The Morning Post...	26th April 1912
Asbury Park Evening Press	CAPT SMITH UNCLE OF RED BANK MAN Capt. E. J. Smith, R. S., who was in charge of the Titanic, was an uncle of Alex. Smith of White street, Red Bank. The latter Mr. Smith has been a resident of Red Bank for some time, conducting a garage in White street, near Broad street. He stated...	17th April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times	JAMES CLINCH SMITH WAS NOTED CLUBMAN James Clinch Smith is one of the best-known clubmen of Long Island, and a member of one of the oldest Long Island families. He was one of the principal heirs of the late A. T. Stewart, and is said to have received a legacy of $3,000,000 from the Ste...	16th April 1912
Sphere	LUCIEN P. SMITH'S DECEMBER BABY Mary Eloise Smith pregnant on Titanic...	28th December 1912
Washington Times	CONGRESSMAN HUGHES' DAUGHTER WAS AMONG THOSE ON THE VESSEL UNIONTOWN, Pa., April 16---James Smith, of Uniontown, Pa., and Morgantown, W. Va., today is on his way to New York following word that his brother, Lucien Smith, and the latter’s bride of two months, perished in the wreck of the Titanic. ...	16th April 1912
New York Times	JAMES CLINCH SMITH Brother-in-Law of Stanford White---Well-Known Sportsman --- James Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law of the late Stanford White, is well known as a sportsman and in society circles both in this city and in Paris. Until May, 1911, when he r...	16th April 1912
	BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her...	1912
liveauctioneers.com	RELATIVES OF TITANIC OFFICER SEEK RETURN OF HIS LAST LETTER - AUCTION CENTRAL NEWS Relatives of Titanic officer seek return of his last letterAuction Central NewsA two-page note John Edward Simpson wrote to his mother days before the ship sank in April 1912 is to expected to fetch at least $50000 at the auction later this week in Long Island, New York. Simpson's great-nephew John Martin said Sunday that the ......	27th February 2012
New York Times	MRS. J. CLINCH SMITH DIES Widow of Titanic Victim Never Recovered from Shock of His Death --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Aug. 20---Mrs. James Clinch Smith, a well known American resident of Paris, died to-day at Leysin, Switzerl...	21st August 1913
Brooklyn Daily Times	BROOKLYNITES ARE LOST AS TITANIC SINKS Several Are Believed to Have Sunk With Ship --- According to the latest reports from the White Star officials there were Brooklyn and Long Island people among those who were lost when the ill fated Titanic sank. The dead ...	16th April 1912
thesun.co.uk	TITANIC CAPTAIN 'DRUNK WHEN SHIP HIT ICEBERG' THE captain of the Titanic may have been under the influence of alcohol when the liner hit an iceberg, according to a never-seen-before letter. Survivor Emily Richards claimed she saw Captain Edward Smith drinking in the saloon bar of the ship in the run-up to the disaster. The history books record the white-whiskered skipper attending a first class dinner party a few hours before the collision and then retiring to his cabin. ...	8th March 2012
Chicago Daily News	PASSENGER WED A CHICAGO GIRL Mrs. Nelson L. Barnes Discusses Trip of J. Clinch Smith J. Clinch Smith, artist, reported to be on board the Titanic, is the husband of a former Chicago girl, Bertha Barnes, sister of Nelson L. Barnes, a broker in th...	15th April 1912

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