Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval reserve officer, and ship's captain. He was the captain in command of the RMS Titanic; he died on board when it sank in 1912. There is a statue to his legacy in Beacon Park, Lichfield, England.
Edward John Smith was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, to Edward Smith, a potter, and Catherine Hancock, née Marsh, who married on 2 August 1841 in Shelton, Staffordshi...
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Captain Edward John Smith, RD, RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British naval reserve officer, and ship's captain. He was the captain in command of the RMS Titanic; he died on board when it sank in 1912. There is a statue to his legacy in Beacon Park, Lichfield, England.
Edward John Smith was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, to Edward Smith, a potter, and Catherine Hancock, née Marsh, who married on 2 August 1841 in Shelton, Staffordshire. His parents later owned a shop. Smith attended the Etruria British School until the age of 13 when he went to Liverpool to begin a seafaring career. He apprenticed on the Senator Weber owned by A Gibson & Co., Liverpool.
On 12 July 1887, Smith married Sarah Eleanor Pennington. Their daughter, Helen Melville Smith, was born in Waterloo, Lancashire, in 1898. The family lived in an imposing red brick, twin-gabled house, named "Woodhead", on Winn Road, Highfield, Southampton.
Smith joined the White Star Line in March 1880 as the Fourth Officer...
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