On 20 July 1899, just a few months before his death (see News from 1899: Death of Thomas H. Ismay), Thomas Ismay was awarded the freedom of the City of Belfast and became its second Honorary Burgess, the first having been William Pirrie a year earlier. The Belfast News-Letter of 21 July (Belfast...
Hi guys... I have a lot of research about the Ismay family as I come from the same town (Maryport, England) as Henry Ismay - as he preferred to be known as and he is quite the local hero - along with Fletcher Christian (of mutany on the Bounty fame) who is also from the town. What I was...
The Times (London), 10 April 1907
MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White
Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International
Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of
her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in...