RMS Umbria Passenger List - 29 April 1893

Front Cover, Saloon Passenger List for the RMS Umbria of the Cunard Line, Departing Saturday, 29 April 1893 from Liverpool to New York, Commanded by Captain Horatio McKay. GGA Image ID # 175195c1cc. The Daily Log Extracts Were Recorded by the Original Passenger on the Front Cover Where Space Was Provided for That Very Purpose.

Notable Passengers: Samuel Butler, William Powell Frith, Charles Mossant, Alton Brooks Parker.

Photograph of the RMS Umbria of the Cunard Liine, 24 July 1905. GGA Image ID # 1751cbdb4c

Saloon Passengers

1. Mr. Richard Agar
2. Rev. J. C. Allard
3. Miss Sarah A. Allen
4. Mr. Felix Antoine
5. Capt. N. Aoki
6. Mr. E. Arrowsmith
7. Capt. Auld
8. Mr. F. G. Austin
9. Mr. Emerson Bainbridge
10. Mr. Trevor Baldwin
11. Mr. A. R. Baldwin
12. Miss Edith Barber
13. Mr. John Barclay
14. Mr. Alex. Barlow
15. Mr. R. J. Barry
16. Mr. E. S. Barton
17. Mr. Beckett
18. Mrs. Beckett
19. Miss Beckett
20. Mr. J. T. Belfrage
21. Mrs. Bell
22. Mr. C. R. E. Bell
23. Mrs. Bell
24. Mr. A. J. Bennet
25. Mr. Henry Beuttell
26. Mrs. M. Bird
27. Miss E. Bird
28. Miss Eleanor Bird
29. Rev. Mr. Bonebrake
30. Mr. Boniface
31. Mr. R. S. Bowden
32. Mr. George Bradford
33. Mr. Max Brand
34. Mr. A. C. Brechin
35. Mr. G. R. Brewis
36. Mr. C. P. Bromley
37. Mrs. C. P. Bromley
38. Master P. D. Bromley
39. Mrs. P. M. Bromley, Two Children and Two Nurses
40. Mr. John Brown
41. Mrs. Brown
42. Miss Brown
43. Miss S. Brown
44. Mrs. F. C. C. Burpee
45. Mr. Samuel Butler (Note 1)
46. Mr. J. M. Cantley
47. Mr. G. W. Cassell
48. Dr. G. P. Chappell
49. Mr. H. D. Cheever
50. Mr. R. R. Clapp
51. Mr. W. W. Clark
52. Mrs. Clark
53. Mr. T. Cleveland
54. Mr. E. A. Cohen
55. Mrs. G. Condory
56. Mr. Charles C. Cowlin
57. Miss Lena Davis
58. Mr. W. H. Deacon
59. Rev. Mr. Dease
60. Mrs. Dease and Child
61. Miss De Pledge
62. Mr. Doniger
63. Mrs. Doniger
64. Dr. Frank Dossert
65. Mrs. Henry Downs
66. Mr. Hugh Duffey
67. Mrs. Duffey
68. Mr. J. C. Dugan
69. Mr. C. Dunstan
70. Mr. George Edwards
71. Right Rev. E. M. Emard (Bishop of Valleyfield, Canada)
72. Mr. G. W. Fackler
73. Mr. W. Farnsworth
74. Mr. W. A. Ellis
75. Capt. N. Fonkuhara
76. Mrs. A. S. Foster
77. Master Samuel Foster
78. Mr. Lewis Firth
79. Mrs. Firth
80. Mr. Robert Fisher
81. Mr. J. Alfred Fisher
82. Mr. Edson Fitch
83. Mrs. Fitch
84. Miss Etta Fitzgerald
85. Mr. William Frith (Note 2)
86. Miss Gallimore
87. Rev. Gascoigne
88. Mr. W. E. Gaynor
89. Mr. O. Gedde
90. Miss Gillespie
91. Miss Grace Gillespie
92. Mr. Henry Glass
93. Mr. C. B. Goldschmidt
94. Miss Goodbody
95. Master Goodbody
96. Mr. E. Gould
97. Mr. J. O. Green
98. Mrs. Green
99. Mr. Elias Haiman
100. Mrs. Haiman
101. Miss Helen Haiman
102. Master Henry Haiman and Nurse
103. Mrs. S. C. Hall
104. Miss Hall
105. Mr. C. K. Hamilton
106. Mr. J. W. Hanson
107. Mr. J. W. Heckman
108. Mr. Alex. S. Henderson
109. Mr. H. A. Herbert
110. Mrs. Herbert
111. Mr. H. H wet
112. Mr. George Hird
113. Mr. H. Hockmeyer
114. Mrs. Hockmeyer
115. Mr. M. H. Hodder
116. Mrs. Hodder
117. Mr. Robt. M. Horne-Payne
118. Mr. C. H. Imhoff
119. Mrs. Imhoff
120. Master R. Imhoff
121. Mr. Lewis Jacobs
122. Miss L. A. Johnson
123. Mr. C. S. Johnson
124. Mr. E. A. Jones
125. Miss Kendrick
126. Mr. P. Kershaw
127. Master Kershaw
128. Mr. S. Kraft
129. Mr. C. D. Langworthy
130. Mr. N. Lazarus
131. Mr. D. N. Lebess
132. Mrs. Leausi
133. Mr. John H. Leeds
134. Miss Eva Lennon
135. Miss K. Lovick
136. Mrs. Edwin H. Low
137. Mr. Stephen A. Marshall
138. Mr. N. Matoba
139. Mrs. Joseph Mattison
140. Miss Mattison
141. Mrs. Mays
142. Mr. W. R. McArthur
143. Mr. Clarke McIlroy
144. Mr. W. McIlroy
145. Mrs. Mcllroy
146. Commodore McVickar, and Manservant
147. Miss J. B. Mein
148. Miss Mellett
149. Mr. John Mynekyn
150. Mr. Wm. Forbes Morgan
151. Mr. Charles Mossant (Note 3)
152. Mr. William Muller
153. Mr. Newsum
154. Mr. G. Nicholson
155. Mr. John C. Orr
156. Mr. A. B. Parker (Note 4)
157. Mrs. Parker
158. Mr. J. P. Pattinson
159. Mr. John Phillips
160. Hon. E. J. Price
161. Mr. John Rankin
162. Mrs. Rankin
163. Mr. F. J. Rebman
164. Mrs. Rebmsn
165. Mr. H. Riker
166. Mr. Victor Roditi
167. Mr. Roseman
168. Mrs. M. L. Sanders
169. Miss M. A. Sanders
170. Mr. Sandeman
171. Major-General Sandham
172. Mrs. Sandham
173. Mr. Walter Scott
174. Mr. Russell Scott
175. Mr. Jas. Shackleton
176. Mrs. Shackleton
177. Mr. J. G Sidey
178. Miss Simpson
179. Mr. Enos Smith
180. Mr. Mark Smith
181. Mr. S. Solomon
182. Mr. P. G. Spence
183. Dr. W. Jebson Stothard
184. Mrs. Stothard
185. Mr. Otto Strakosch
186. Mr. Jacob Strauss
187. Mr. William Sullivan
188. Miss A. J. Swan
189. Miss M. A. Swan
190. Major Miss Swift
191. Mr. P. Taylor
192. Mr. Joseph Thomas
193. Mrs. Frances Timpson
194. Mr. C. Tolley
195. Mr. Henry Tongue
196. Mr. E. M. Townsend
197. Mrs. Townsend
198. Mr. H. R. Townsend
199. Mr. R. C. Townsend
200. Mr. H. E. Townshend
201. Mr. Arnold Turner
202. Mrs. H. L. Waddell
203. Mr. E. P. Watkins
204. Mr. Tom Watson
205. Mr. Alfred Whitley
206. Mr. John Whittaker
207. Miss Whittaker
208. Mr. J. E. Hodder Williams
209. Mr. Joseph Wilson
210. Mr. C. M. Wright
211. Miss Alice Zimmern

Passenger also filled in the Log of the voyage (A rare occurrence) (Note 5):

1. 29/4/93 Left Moorings about 7:00 pm
2. 30/4/93 Am Osborn 8 Dup 1:30 Fashet 4:46 ??
3. Latitude 50.40 Longitude 19.52 Distance 449
4. Latitude 48.55 Longitude 31.10 Distance 450 Remarks: Headwind
5. Latitude 45.50 Longitude 40.57 Distance 439 Remarks: Stronger Head Wind
6. Latitude 42.20 Longitude 50.28 Distance 464 Remarks: Trade wind??
7. Latitude 41.23 Longitude 61.04 Distance 477 Remarks: Wind calm but swell occasionally
8. Latitude 40.25 Longitude 71.06 Distance 459 Remarks: Calm, Slight Headwind
9. To Sandy Hook west Distance 132 Remarks: Quarantine 7:30 Too late to pass
10. Landed next morning at 8:30

Passenger List Notes

1. Samuel Butler (4 or 5 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey which remain in use to this day.
2. William Powell Frith (19 January 1819 – 9 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting The Sleeping Model as his Diploma work. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth."
3. Mossant was a famous brand of hat manufactured in France and well known in the United States for most of the twentieth century. The company was founded by Charles Mossant in the nineteenth century, and by 1929 more than 2,000 hats a day were being produced. Charles Mossant, of the firm of Mossant, Freres & Vallon, leading hat manufacturers of France, died at Nice, on January 20, 1908, at the age of 72 years. Mr. Mossant was a well known personage, and held prominent positions in the civic and commercial affairs of his country, being president of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the Societe dArcheologie de la Drone, ex-president of the Commerce of Romans, ex-Mayor of Bourg-de-Peage, and administrator of the Banque de France. (The American Hatter, Volume 37, No. 9, March 1908, New York, 106)
4. Alton Brooks Parker (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge, best known as the Conservative Democrat who lost the presidential election of 1904 to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide.
5. Original Owner of the Passenger List made the Notation: My State room 76, Seat in Dining Saloon 270 (Captains Table). This person also made notations of all Japanese Passengers (Aoki, Fonkuhara, Matoba); made an "X" by Major Miss Swift and marked ten other Passengers with an "--" after their name.

Passenger List Information

RMS Umbria Saloon Passenger List – 29 April 1893

 

Description

An exquisite and exceptionally rare Saloon Passenger List from the RMS Umbria, dated 29 April 1893, chronicling a pivotal transatlantic voyage from Liverpool to New York. Commanded by the esteemed Captain Horatio McKay, this document is a quintessential artifact from the golden age of ocean liners, offering a unique glimpse into the social and cultural fabric of Edwardian travel.

The cover features space for personal voyage logs, a rare inclusion utilized by the original owner, who recorded meticulous details of the journey, including daily coordinates and weather remarks. This artifact also includes the passenger's dining arrangements and insightful annotations on select individuals aboard, reflecting the era's attention to personal connections and intellectual curiosity.

The RMS Umbria, a marvel of engineering and luxury, measured 500 feet in length, with a beam of 57 feet 3 inches and a displacement of 8,127 tons, powered by 14,500 horsepower. Known for her speed and elegance, the Umbria symbolized Cunard’s leadership in transatlantic shipping during this period.

 

Notable VIP Travelers

1. Samuel Butler
   • Significance: A celebrated Victorian author and intellectual, Butler is best remembered for his Utopian satire Erewhon and his posthumous masterpiece The Way of All Flesh. A prolific critic of orthodoxy and translator of classical texts, his presence aboard the Umbria underscores its appeal to literary elites.
2. William Powell Frith
   • Significance: A distinguished English painter renowned for his genre works and panoramic depictions of Victorian life. An elected member of the Royal Academy, Frith’s legacy as a chronicler of British society adds artistic prestige to this passenger list.
3. Charles Mossant
   • Significance: Founder of the Mossant hat brand, which rose to prominence in both France and the United States. Mossant was a leading figure in civic and commercial spheres, with a reputation that extended far beyond his contributions to fashion.
4. Alton Brooks Parker
   • Significance: An influential American judge and the 1904 Democratic presidential nominee who challenged Theodore Roosevelt. Parker’s political career highlights the transatlantic connections between Europe and America’s intellectual and political elite.
5. Right Rev. E. M. Emard
   • Significance: Bishop of Valleyfield, Canada, representing the ecclesiastical prominence often seen in Cunard's saloon-class voyages.
6. Commodore McVickar
   • Significance: A high-ranking naval officer, traveling with his manservant, reflecting the ship’s appeal to individuals of significant rank and status.

 

Historical Annotations

The original owner of this passenger list, noted for their detailed voyage logs, also made personal annotations, marking notable passengers such as Major Miss Swift and three Japanese passengers, Capt. N. Aoki, Capt. N. Fonkuhara, and Mr. N. Matoba, showcasing the multicultural interactions aboard the Umbria.

 

Interesting Note

This passenger list is a rare intersection of maritime history, cultural significance, and personal narrative. The inclusion of internationally renowned figures like Samuel Butler and William Powell Frith, alongside unique voyage annotations, makes this an invaluable artifact for collectors of maritime memorabilia and Edwardian ephemera.

 

Conclusion

The RMS Umbria Saloon Passenger List – 29 April 1893 is more than a document; it is a living testament to the elegance, intellect, and interconnectedness of a bygone era. Its pristine preservation, notable passengers, and unique personal annotations establish it as a centerpiece for any maritime or historical collection. This listing captures the grandeur of Cunard’s legacy and the timeless appeal of transatlantic travel during the late 19th century.