John Henry Barnstead, who lived from June 12, 1845 to June 13, 1939, was a Canadian tanner, barrister and the Registrar of Vital Statistics in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1912, at age sixty-seven, Barnstead coordinated the retrieval, cataloguing and burial of RMS Titanic victims, devising a system of cataloguing mass-disaster remains that is still in use.
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