The story of the Glasgow minister who sacrificed his own life to save others on the doomed liner TITANIC HERO THAT TIME FORGOT
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The story of the Glasgow minister who sacrificed his own life to save others on the doomed liner TITANIC HERO THAT TIME FORGOT
Ann Fotheringham
Senior features writer
IT IS the story of a hero, but few outside his native Bishopton, or the city's Kinning Park, where he preached, know the tale of the Reverend John Harper.
"Of all the films and stories which have been told about the disaster, you never hear about this man from Glasgow who, if all the accounts are to be believed, was a real hero," says Gordon Webster, one of the organisers behind the church's Titanic weekend in April.
