English salesman and Titanic casualty Joseph Fynney was BOTD in 1876. Born in Great Sutton, Cheshire, his father was a dairy farmer. Raised in Liverpool, little is known of his early life. After his father’s death in 1894, he lived with his mother and sister, and worked as a rubber salesman. Described as a “handsome bachelor”, he spent much of his time in the company of younger men, working with delinquents at his parish church, with neighbours complaining about his frequent late-night male visitors. He travelled frequently to Canada to visit his siblings, who had emigrated to Montréal, bringing a male companion with him on each journey. In 1912, he boarded the HMS Titanic in Southampton, in the company of an 18-year-old apprentice barrel maker, William Gaskell, with whom he shared a 2nd-class cabin. Both men drowned when the ship hit an iceberg on 15 April. Fynney’s body was recovered by the Minia and buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Montréal. He was 36. Gaskell’s body was never recovered. In his will, Fynney left a quarter of his estate to Gaskell (approximately £146,000 in today’s currency), which was inherited by Gaskell’s family.