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Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL (22 July 1862 – 20 April 1931) was a prominent Englishman and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland; 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile.
Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 118 N.E. 214 (1917), is a New York state contract case in which the New York Court of Appeals held Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, to a contract that assigned the sole right to market her name to her advertising agent.
A letter written by Titanic survivor Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon is slated to hit the auction block in Boston. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The Duff (later Duff-Gordon) baronetcy, of Halkin in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 12 November 1813 for James Duff, British Consul in Cádiz , with remainder to his nephew, William Gordon .
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Austin; 24 June 1821 – 14 July 1869) was an English author and translator who wrote as Lucie Gordon.She is best known for her Letters from Egypt, 1863–1865 (1865) and Last Letters from Egypt (1875), [1] most of which are addressed to her husband, Alexander Duff-Gordon, and her mother, Sarah Austin.
[23] [24] Duff Cooper was created Viscount Norwich in 1952, for services to the nation, but Lady Diana refused to be called Viscountess Norwich, claiming that it sounded like "porridge". [25] Following her husband's death, she made an announcement in The Times to this effect, stating that she had "reverted to the name and title of Lady Diana ...
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon's testimony was a highlight of the inquiry, attracting many society figures. During 36 days of official investigations (spread over two months), testimony was recorded from nearly 100 witnesses in the form of answers to set questions that the process was designed to answer.