William Thompson Sloper was a First Class passenger of the Titanic. He survived the sinking. He came from New Britain, CT. and was born on December 13th, 1883; son of Andrew Jackson Sloper, former president of New Britain National Bank, and Ella Thomson Sloper. Sloper, a stock broker and estate manager, was returning from a three-months vacation in Europe. On his tour he had met the family of Mark Fortune. Sloper apparently became so fond of Alice Fortune that he cancelled his passage on the Mauretania and booked instead on the Titanic which he boarded at Southampton as a first class passenger.