Algernon barkworth biography for kids

Queer Places:
Hessle High School & Sixth Form College, Tranby House, Heads Ln, Hessle HU13 0JQ, Regno Unito
Mill Lane Cemetery, Mill Ln, Kirk Ella, Hull HU10 7JE, Regno Unito

Algernon Henry Barkworth (March 9 – 7 January ) was a RMS Titanic passenger and survivor.

It has been suggested that he was one of the LGBT passengers aboard the Titanic.^[1]

Algernon Henry Barkworth was born in Tranby House in Hessle, Sculcoates, Yorkshire, England on 4 June , the son of Henry Barkworth () and Catherine Hester Smith ().

His father was a timber merchant, farmer and landowner. The family was wealthy and Algernon grew up surrounded by an entourage of servants and was raised by his governess Amelia Selina Coxhead ().

In the s for a short time Barkworth lived in Puddletrenthide, a village in Dorset, next door to his brother Edmund, who was a farmer and landowner.

Around Barkworth went back living with his widowed mother and unmarried sister Evelyn at Tranby House. At the time he was a Jus