About Cosmo Duff-Gordon
Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 1772 his family had founded the Duff-Gordon sherry bodega in Spain, which still produces high-quality fortified wines. Duff-Gordon is best known for the circumstances in which he survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, along with his wife and her secretary, Laura Mabel Francatelli. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL (22 July 1862 – 20 April 1931) was a prominent British aristocrat and sportsman who owned land in Scotland, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Cosmo Duff-Gordon became the 5th Baronet of Halkin in 1896, his title stemming from a Royal licence conferred on his great-great-uncle in 1813 in recognition of his aid to the Crown during the Peninsular War.
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