J. Bruce Ismay
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Chairman and managing director of the White Star Line and president of International Mercantile Marine, born 1862, son of the line's founder. He travelled on the maiden voyage as a guest of the company, was handed the Baltic's ice warning by Captain Smith on 14 April and kept it in his pocket for several hours, and left in Collapsible C near the end of the evacuation. Neither inquiry found him culpable, but the American press and much of British opinion never forgave his survival; he withdrew from public life and died in 1937.
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