![]() In July 1925, at the age of 7, Lord traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with his mother and sister, from New York to Cherbourg and Southampton, on the RMS Olympic, the Titanic 's sister ship. Lord's grandfather, Richard Curzon Hoffman, was president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") steamship firm in the 1890s. His father, who was a lawyer, died when Lord was just three years old. and Henrietta MacTier (Hoffman) Lord on October 8, 1917. Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walter Lord Sr. (Octo– May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, A Night to Remember. ![]() Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement (1994)
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