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Harriet Alice Katherine Lenox-Conyngham

Harriet Alice Katherine Lenox-Conyngham was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1878, the daughter of Colonel Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham and Laura Calvert Arbuthnot. She had 12 siblings in total.

Alice boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her sister-in-law Barbara, neice Eileen and nephew Denis. The group disembarked at Cherbourg.

She lived at the family home in Springhill, Moneymore, Northern Ireland, she never married and died on 14 June 1956.

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  1. TLC

    TLC

    Here‘s a link to a photo of accident I think
  2. Arun Vajpey

    Arun Vajpey

    As far as I am aware, the Titanic and the New York came very close during that incident but there was no actual contact as such. Not at that time, but she might have been referring to the collision over 4 days later.
  3. TLC

    TLC

    Here is an excerpt from her letter ‘ the ship started at about 12.15 then we had a long delay because this ship broke the ropes of another ship the Oceanic as it went floating about and knocked into this ship but they got it alright after a bit. ’ Do you think Eileen was mistaken in naming the other ship ‘Oceanic’? And she does say ‘knocked into this ship’?? But as she was only eleven at the time I will give her the benefit of doubt. The other letter that my family posted, which was post marked from Queensland, was from Alice. She was writing to a child, Duff, in Cambridge and wrote something like ‘ just thought that you would like a letter from biggest ship in the world on her maiden... Read full post

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Titanic Passenger Summary

Name: Miss Harriet Alice Katherine Lenox-Conyngham
Nationality: Scottish
Marital Status: Single
Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 75, £1 10s
Disembarked: Cherbourg
Died: Thursday 14th June 1956 aged 78 years

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