William Denton Cox was a Third Class steward aboard RMS Titanic who died while bringing groups of Third Class passengers to lifeboats during the sinking. [1] He was born in late 1882 in Millbrook, Hampshire. His mother was Ellen Jane Lockyer and his father was Albert Denton Cox, who had a job as railway telegraph labourer. The next year they baptized William.
Cox was from Southampton and transferred to Titanic from the RMS Olympic on the 4th of April, 1912.
Titanic grazed an iceberg on the night of April 14, around 11:40 P.M. The ship started to sink and when it was clear that evacuation was needed, Cox escorted two groups of Third Class women and children to the lifeboats assisted by stewards John Edward Hart and Albert Victor Pearcey. Cox was last seen headed below to rescue a third group. His body was found by the cable ship CS Mackay-Bennett and brought to Halifax, initially listed as Body No. 300. He is buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 7th, 1912.
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- ↑ "Testimony of John E. Hart". British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry. 30 July 1912. http://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq09Hart01.php. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
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