Christopher Ward - And the Band Played On . . .: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank

About the author

Christopher Ward is the grandson of Jock Hume and Mary Costin. He joined the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-upon-Tyne aged 17, and moved to Merseyside to become the Daily Mirror's Liverpool correspondent at the height of Beatlemania. At 38 he became Fleet Street's then youngest editor when he was appointed editor of the Daily Express . He left to co-found Redwood, Europe's first customer magazine agency, of which he is Chairman today.

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Acknowledgements

I owe a great debt of thanks to my friends Mark and Colette Douglas Home who not only encouraged me to write this book but introduced me to their agent, Maggie Pearlstine, who made it happen. My publisher at Hodder & Stoughton, Rupert Lancaster, then nursed me through it, helping me make the giant leap from tabloid journalist to author. My thanks, too, to Camilla Dowse and Kate Miles at Hodder: Camilla researching and sourcing most of the images in this book and Kate bringing the whole project together in a very short period of time.

Many people have kindly given me many hours of their time assisting me with research. David Rattray, Keeper of Instruments at the Royal Academy of Music, provided an important insight into the wonderful world of stringed instruments, in particular the fiddle, which was central to understanding the mind and life of Andrew Hume. Alan Ruffman, author of the definitive book on the aftermath, Titanic Remembered The Unsinkable Ship And Halifax , shared his encyclopaedic knowledge with me. Garry Shutlak, Senior Reference Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives, who would win Mastermind on the subject of the Titanic , also steered me in the right direction in the Halifax archives and corrected multiple misconceptions. Lynne Marie Richard at the marvellous Maritime Museum in Halifax was kind enough to let me read the Mackay-Bennett log in the middle of a busy morning when she was setting up a new exhibition. Ed Kamuda, who founded and runs the Titanic Historical Society with his wife Karen and sister Barbara, welcomed my wife and me to their museum in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts. Brian Ticehurst, a former newspaper press operative in Southampton, who has made a lifetime study of the Titanic Relief Funds distributions, generously opened his voluminous files to me. I am indebted to the American collector, Craig Sopin, for the picture of Jock taken in his teens, which I had never seen, and for his kind permission to reproduce Andrew Humes handwritten letter to the Titanic Relief Fund, which is also in his collection.

Tommy Henderson, creator and curator of the delightful Dalbeattie Museum, took me back in time to Dumfries & Galloways early days. Motorbooks in Cecil Court, Covent Garden, assisted me putting the Humes on the right trains from Dumfries to Liverpool. Isla Robertson researched Dumfries and Galloway history and did much background sleuthing on my behalf in archives in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Erica Johnson, archivist, and all the other staff at the Ewart Library in Dumfries, worked like terriers in sniffing out missing pieces of my family history. Erica, who specialises in ancestry research, could teach Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot a thing or three. My thanks and appreciation go, too, to the patience of staff at the libraries and museums where I spent many productive and interesting hours in 2010. These include the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Liverpool Library, the National Archive of Scotland, and the National Library of Scotland.

My new found second cousin and fellow Titanic author, Yvonne Hume, exchanged pictures and information with me, filling in many blanks about our shared ancestors. Charles Pellegrino, in his wonderful tribute to Jock in Ghosts of Vesuvius , opened my eyes to the important role of the band in preventing panic and thus saving lives.

But most thanks of all to my wife Nonie, without whose patience and support I would not have been able to find the time to research and write this book in a year. Her tenacious picture research in the Nova Scotia archives in Halifax was also invaluable and produced many of the most shocking images in this book.

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