Lillian W. Bentham was a Second Class passenger of the Titanic. She survived the sinking. She was the daughter of Henry Bentham (b. 1860) and Mary Jane Smith (b. 1865), both natives of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. She had two siblings: Walter (b. 1886) and Daisy (b. 1888). Her family appeared on the 1891 Channel Island census living at Tower Lane in St Peter Port, Guernsey. They emigrated later that year and settled in Murray, Orleans, New York where Lillian was born the following year. The family appeared on the 1900 and 1910 census records living in Murray township.