Search results
Alma mater. St Peter's College, Oxford. University of London. Sir Gordon William Duff, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE (born 27 December 1947) is a British medical scientist and academic. He was principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 2014 to 2021. He was Lord Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield from 1991 to 2014.
Apr 13, 2012 · Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, an extraordinary British couturier, innovator and businesswoman was traveling to do business in America—she had set up a house in New York in 1909, and Chicago in 1911 ...
Nov 15, 2010 · The title of this story “I Was Saved From the Titanic” is derived from an article in Coronet (June 1951), excerpted from Lucy Duff Gordon’s memoir, Discretions and Indiscretions. At least two of the three chapters about the sinking in Lucy’s autobiography were based on an account she wrote privately on April 21, 1912.
- Lady Duff Gordon
From 1932 to 35 Lady Duff-Gordon, her business collapsed and living in straitened circumstances, resided at 6 villas-on-the-Heath, Hampstead, London. 22 At the time of her death in April 1935, aged 71, she was living in a nursing home in Putney, London. 23. She and her husband were buried at Brookwood Cemetery, near London.
- Female
- English
- London, England
- Dressmaker / Couturiere
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 . The first British-based designer to achieve international acclaim, Lucy Duff-Gordon was a widely acknowledged innovator in couture ...
Apr 20, 2023 · Duff-Gordon - born on July 22, 1862 - and his wife were travelling on the RMS Titanic along with Lucy's secretary. They had been using the A16 cabin in the first class quarters of the doomed vessel. Only 12 people managed to escape in lifeboat number one, which had a capacity of 40 people. Duff-Gordon and the two women were among the three.
People also ask
Who was Lucy Duff Gordon?
Who were Duff-Gordon and his wife?
How much were the Duff Gordons worth?
Where was Lady Duff-Gordon buried?
Aug 28, 2003 · LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died today in a Putney nursing home following a long illness. She was a sister of Elinor Glyn, the novelist. With her husband, the late Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff Gordon, Lady Duff Gordon escaped the sinking ...
