Arthur Godfrey Peuchen was a survivor of the Titanic disaster. At the time he was known as Major Peuchen. He offered to assist in rowing one of the lifeboats when its passengers discovered that they only had one seaman. The ship's Second Officer told him he could go if he could get down the falls into the lifeboat. This he did (he was an experienced yachtsman) so he became one of the few men to survive the disaster. He subsequently testified at the New York hearings into the disaster and he was also villified by the public (as were almost all other male survivors) just because he was a man who had survived.
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Arthur Peuchen was the son of a railroad contractor and whose maternal grandfather managed the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. After a private school education he joined the Canadian military in 1888 and became a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Rifles. Peuchen received promotions to the rank of Major, and in 1911 was a marshalling officer at King George V's coronation.
In 1897 Peuchen developed a method for extracting chemicals from waste wood for use in the manufacture of products such as dyes, pesticides and explosives. Peuchen became president of the Standard Chemical, Iron & Lumber Company of Canada Ltd which had plants in Canada, England, France and Germany. Peuchen often visited his logging/lumber operations in Alberta. He owned the yacht Vreda and was, for a time, Vice-Commodore and Rear-Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Peuchen frequently traveled to Europe on business. In April 1912, he planned his fortieth transatlantic voyage as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic. Because he was an accomplished sailor, Peuchen was allowed off the stricken liner onto the under-filled Lifeboat 6 which also held the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' (memorial 1707); she and Peuchen were to become the Titanic's best-known survivors. As well as being one of the few Canadian survivors, Peuchen was the sole Canadian to testify at the Titanic inquiry, where his criticisms of the captain and crew were not well received by the public and called into question his own conduct that night, leading to considerable loss of reputation. Peuchen's wallet was recovered from the Titanic in 1987.
Despite the scandal, A. G. Peuchen was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles in 1912. Peuchen retired from Standard Chemical at the commencement of World War One to command the Home Battalion of the Queen's Own Rifles. His reputation as the man who survived both the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War continued to suffer, and bad investments in the 1920s caused Peuchen to lose much of his money. He allegedly lived in his company boarding-house near Hinton, Alberta for a few years before returning to Toronto in failing health.
Courtsey Ian McKenzie
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Arthur Peuchen was the son of a railroad contractor and whose maternal grandfather managed the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. After a private school education he joined the Canadian military in 1888 and became a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Rifles. Peuchen received promotions to the rank of Major, and in 1911 was a marshalling officer at King George V's coronation.
In 1897 Peuchen developed a method for extracting chemicals from waste wood for use in the manufacture of products such as dyes, pesticides and explosives. Peuchen became president of the Standard Chemical, Iron & Lumber Company of Canada Ltd which had plants in Canada, England, France and Germany. Peuchen often visited his logging/lumber operations in Alberta. He owned the yacht Vreda and was, for a time, Vice-Commodore and Rear-Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Peuchen frequently traveled to Europe on business. In April 1912, he planned his fortieth transatlantic voyage as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic. Because he was an accomplished sailor, Peuchen was allowed off the stricken liner onto the under-filled Lifeboat 6 which also held the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' (memorial 1707); she and Peuchen were to become the Titanic's best-known survivors. As well as being one of the few Canadian survivors, Peuchen was the sole Canadian to testify at the Titanic inquiry, where his criticisms of the captain and crew were not well received by the public and called into question his own conduct that night, leading to considerable loss of reputation. Peuchen's wallet was recovered from the Titanic in 1987.
Despite the scandal, A. G. Peuchen was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles in 1912. Peuchen retired from Standard Chemical at the commencement of World War One to command the Home Battalion of the Queen's Own Rifles. His reputation as the man who survived both the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War continued to suffer, and bad investments in the 1920s caused Peuchen to lose much of his money. He allegedly lived in his company boarding-house near Hinton, Alberta for a few years before returning to Toronto in failing health.
Courtsey Ian McKenzie
Arthur Godfrey Peuchen was a survivor of the Titanic disaster. At the time he was known as Major Peuchen. He offered to assist in rowing one of the lifeboats when its passengers discovered that they only had one seaman. The ship's Second Officer told him he could go if he could get down the falls into the lifeboat. This he did (he was an experienced yachtsman) so he became one of the few men to survive the disaster. He subsequently testified at the New York hearings into the disaster and he was also villified by the public (as were almost all other male survivors) just because he was a man who had survived.
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Arthur Peuchen was the son of a railroad contractor and whose maternal grandfather managed the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. After a private school education he joined the Canadian military in 1888 and became a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Rifles. Peuchen received promotions to the rank of Major, and in 1911 was a marshalling officer at King George V's coronation.
In 1897 Peuchen developed a method for extracting chemicals from waste wood for use in the manufacture of products such as dyes, pesticides and explosives. Peuchen became president of the Standard Chemical, Iron & Lumber Company of Canada Ltd which had plants in Canada, England, France and Germany. Peuchen often visited his logging/lumber operations in Alberta. He owned the yacht Vreda and was, for a time, Vice-Commodore and Rear-Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Peuchen frequently traveled to Europe on business. In April 1912, he planned his fortieth transatlantic voyage as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic. Because he was an accomplished sailor, Peuchen was allowed off the stricken liner onto the under-filled Lifeboat 6 which also held the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' (memorial 1707); she and Peuchen were to become the Titanic's best-known survivors. As well as being one of the few Canadian survivors, Peuchen was the sole Canadian to testify at the Titanic inquiry, where his criticisms of the captain and crew were not well received by the public and called into question his own conduct that night, leading to considerable loss of reputation. Peuchen's wallet was recovered from the Titanic in 1987.
Despite the scandal, A. G. Peuchen was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles in 1912. Peuchen retired from Standard Chemical at the commencement of World War One to command the Home Battalion of the Queen's Own Rifles. His reputation as the man who survived both the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War continued to suffer, and bad investments in the 1920s caused Peuchen to lose much of his money. He allegedly lived in his company boarding-house near Hinton, Alberta for a few years before returning to Toronto in failing health.
Courtsey Ian McKenzie
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Arthur Peuchen was the son of a railroad contractor and whose maternal grandfather managed the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. After a private school education he joined the Canadian military in 1888 and became a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Rifles. Peuchen received promotions to the rank of Major, and in 1911 was a marshalling officer at King George V's coronation.
In 1897 Peuchen developed a method for extracting chemicals from waste wood for use in the manufacture of products such as dyes, pesticides and explosives. Peuchen became president of the Standard Chemical, Iron & Lumber Company of Canada Ltd which had plants in Canada, England, France and Germany. Peuchen often visited his logging/lumber operations in Alberta. He owned the yacht Vreda and was, for a time, Vice-Commodore and Rear-Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
Peuchen frequently traveled to Europe on business. In April 1912, he planned his fortieth transatlantic voyage as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic. Because he was an accomplished sailor, Peuchen was allowed off the stricken liner onto the under-filled Lifeboat 6 which also held the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' (memorial 1707); she and Peuchen were to become the Titanic's best-known survivors. As well as being one of the few Canadian survivors, Peuchen was the sole Canadian to testify at the Titanic inquiry, where his criticisms of the captain and crew were not well received by the public and called into question his own conduct that night, leading to considerable loss of reputation. Peuchen's wallet was recovered from the Titanic in 1987.
Despite the scandal, A. G. Peuchen was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles in 1912. Peuchen retired from Standard Chemical at the commencement of World War One to command the Home Battalion of the Queen's Own Rifles. His reputation as the man who survived both the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War continued to suffer, and bad investments in the 1920s caused Peuchen to lose much of his money. He allegedly lived in his company boarding-house near Hinton, Alberta for a few years before returning to Toronto in failing health.
Courtsey Ian McKenzie
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LIEUT.COL.A.G. PEUCHEN
1859---------1929
HIS BELOVED WIFE
MARGARET THOMSON
1867---------1951
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