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To preface, I didn't go into this year’s Titanic week planning on writing an essay-length biography of Jack Phillips, but with all the information I wanted to include and how little I wanted to cut, here we are. This is by far the longest post I’ve written, so if you’re familiar with my other long format posts from the past year, you’ve been warned haha. And thank you in advance for taking the time to read.

John Phillips was born on April 11th 1887 in Godalming, Surrey. His parents, George and Ann, ran a draper’s shop below the family’s house on Farncombe St. Jack also had older twin sisters, Elsie and Ethel, who were 13 years old at the time of his birth. He was christened at St. John the