Mr Robert Charles Bainbrigge¹ was born in St Andrews, Guernsey in the Channel Islands on 19 October 1889.

His father, Reginald John Bainbrigge, was born in Canada in 1853 to Channel Islander parents but had returned to Guernsey as an infant and was apparently a man of wealth, being described as a gentleman on the 1881 census and living on his own means for the remainder of his life. He was married to an Australian-born woman named Maud 2 Emma Platts (b. 1860 in Adelaide) and had four children: Ethel Dora (b. 1878), Reginald (b. 1884), William Herbert (1894-1921) and Robert Charles, their daughter Ethel being born in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka).

Robert first appears on the 1891 census as an infant living with his family at Rohais Manor, St Andrews where the family would be listed on all further census records. He had visited the USA in 1905 with his sister Ethel (later Mrs William King) who remained there, settling in St Paul, Minnesota and living at 214 Dayton Avenue by 1912. He made a second voyage to visit his sister, this time arriving in New York on 26 March 1909 aboard Adriatic but would remain living in Minnesota working as a horse trainer for Savage's International Stock Farm. He returned to his native Guernsey around early 1912 to visit his widowed mother and had intended returning to Minnesota earlier, on 3 April 1912, aboard Olympic but delayed his trip so that he could travel on Titanic instead.

He boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger (ticket number CA31030 which cost £10, 10s).

Mr Bainbrigge died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified. His mother received a grant of £85 from the Titanic Relief Fund (case P. 16) and she is believed to have remained living in Rohais Manor up until her death in 1929. His sister Ethel remained living in St Paul, Minnesota and later had a son named Charles William (1918-2005). She died on 16 June 1956.  Charles is remembered on a plaque at St Peter Port Guersey with other Titanic passengers.