Mr. William Brodrick-Cloete

William Brodrick-Cloete, 63 ?, was a British subject who was born in South Africa, lived in England, and worked in Mexico. At the time of the Lusitania disaster he had extensive mining properties and plantations in Mexico, although he had also previously been a cricketer and a horse breeder. His residence was listed as Hare …

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Mr. Robert Wishart Cairns

Robert Cairns, 49, was a British citizen, an American director of an Anglo-American brewery.  He was the director of six companies.  Cairns paid passage for a saloon class ticket to Purser James McCubbin upon boarding, therefore his name and cabin number did not show up on initial passenger list published in the newspaper accounts. After Lusitania was …

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Mr. Alexander Campbell

Image:  Christopher Richards Collection Alexander Campbell (1871 – 1915), 43, of London, England, United Kingdom but originally from Perthshire, Scotland, was general manager of John Dewar and Sons. He did not believe that Lusitania would be torpedoed. He was lost in the Lusitania disaster. Campbell was born on 9 May 1915 in Perthshire, Scotland. He …

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Mr. Alfred Russell Clarke

image credit:  Paul Latimer/Halifax Evening Mail, 11 May 1915. Alfred Clarke, 55, owned A. R. Clarke and Co. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which made leather linings, vests, and moccasins.  He was a British subject, married, and had a son and daughter. On the last voyage of the Lusitania, his ticket was 13105 and he stayed in …

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