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'''Roderick Chisholm''' (20 December 1868 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish
==Biography==
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In 1897, he married Susan Anderson in [[Lisburn]], County Down; the couple had two children: Alice (1897–2002) and James (1899–1960), both born in Belfast.
===On the ''Titanic'' and posterity===
Chisholm was one of the select employees of Harland and Wolff to oversee the smooth running of the Titanic maiden voyage.
In the night of 14 April 1912, the ''Titanic'' fatally impacted an iceberg sinking hours later; Chisholm could not save himself and died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified. Its assets amounted to about 140 pounds, of which the widow became beneficiary.
His wife remained at Sandford Avenue, in [[Pottinger (District Electoral Area)|Pottinger]] (Belfast) for the rest of her life and died on 22 February 1961 at the age of 87. She is buried in [[Roselawn Cemetery]], Belfast, with her son James. His daughter Alice married in Belfast in 1919 with Alfred McCambley (1894–1976) and died on 11 February 2002 at the age of 104 and she is also buried in the Roselawn Cemetery.
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