Mm-hmm

... you lived in Liverpool, his hometown.

This was the man who literally commissioned the Titanic, which everyone knows.

Um, and it's probably deliberate why he isn't known.

I feel like he might have been more well-known if his life had gone better.

And what really, really made me think that this would make a good play was the central moral dilemma at the heart of Ismay's story.

He decided to get in one of the lifeboats to leave the Titanic despite being the owner of the company, and it's one of those just classic dilemmas.

... historiography, but where did you find him when you started researching?