He was a Scottish baronet named Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon. His wife was a fashionable English dress designer whose fantastic gowns were known by her first name: Lucile. Sir Cosmo survived to regret what he later said was a friendly gesture toward crew members in the lifeboat he managed to get into: "I will give you a fiver each for getting a new kit." He said he was offering to help them get back on their feet. They thought he was bribing them to not save any of the people struggling in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. The public would find only one version believable.
