Plimsoll, Samuel
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Plimsoll, Samuel (1824–98). Radical MP. Born in Bristol, a congregationalist, Plimsoll was successively a solicitor's clerk, manager of a brewery, and honorary secretary for the
Great Exhibition of 1851. In 1853 he became a coal merchant in London, gaining an extensive knowledge of coastal shipping. Elected to Parliament for Derby in 1868, he proposed a compulsory load line to prevent overloading and obtained a royal commission in 1873. His anger at the greed of ship owners who resisted his plans led to his temporary exclusion from the Commons in 1875, but his persistence was rewarded with the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 and the load line soon came to bear his name.
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Altruism Piers Brendon on the campaigning Samuel Plimsoll, the sailors' best friend
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save...volcanic outburst from one of its Members. Samuel Plimsoll, a rich coal merchant who represented...Jones shows in this excellent biography, Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) had championed...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Drawing the line at safety; The Plimsoll Mark is a familiar shipping term - but who was its namesake? Peter Elson reports.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 3/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...during his campaigning career, Samuel Plimsoll was despised and derided by many...painted on every ship's side. Plimsoll was derided and humiliated by vested...ships , says Nicolette Jones, Plimsoll's biographer. As a journalist...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The sailor's friend; Maritime history.(The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/8/2006; 700+ words
; PLIMSOLLS, the rubber-soled, canvas...that they are named after Samuel Plimsoll, an Englishman whose tireless...Elegantly written, "The Plimsoll Sensation" is a testament...canvas shoes? They were named plimsolls in 1876 by a salesmanfor...results in disaster. The Plimsoll Sensation: ...
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A great campaigner's line of battle
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 7/3/2006; 700+ words
; Nicolette Jones The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to...Gothic building. The host was Samuel Plimsoll, MP and coal merchant, and after...year were drowning unnecessarily and Plimsoll had already tried to introduce safety...
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One foot in the past
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 12/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...discovers Nicolette Jones as she traces the steps of Samuel Plimsoll We all know what it is to make a physical journey...obliged to sail in overloaded and unseaworthy ships, Samuel Plimsoll travelled the country for years to address meetings...
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 "Hull Daily Mail (UK)")
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Safety campaigner forever famous for saving lives at sea
Newspaper article from: Hull Daily Mail (UK); 7/24/2006; 678 words
; The Plimsoll Line ensures Samuel Plimsoll, the campaigner...was 27 years younger than Plimsoll, but they married at Hornsea...Norwood Street and Hull has its Plimsoll Ship Hotel in Witham. His...upper and a rubber sole, plimsolls were not to be immersed beyond the rubber band - another ...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Pub sign points to political fight
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 7/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...find out after she moved to Plimsoll Road in Finsbury Park, north...down from a pub called the Plimsoll. Pasted over the middle of...were so named because of the Plimsoll line, which dictated the limit...Beneath them was a name, Samuel Plimsoll, and his dates...
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A load of sound sense
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; THE PLIMSOLL SENSATION : THE GREAT CAMPAIGN TO SAVE...was liable to three months in jail. Samuel Plimsoll -- Liberal MP for Derby, pious Christian...able to compete against foreign rivals. Samuel and Eliza Plimsoll, however, were on...
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John North - Confession is good for the sole...
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 1/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...three of the following. Among them was Sir Samuel Plimsoll. We wrote fulsomely instead. Sir Samuel Plimsoll, said the answer, was not only...produced his almost-eponymous boot. Sir Samuel, it persisted, had done more to help clothe...
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PAPERBACKS ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Plimsoll Sensation By Nicolette Jones ABACUS...moving into north Lon-don's Plimsoll Road. Curious about the Plimsoll Line on a pub sign, she embarked...an all-but-forgotten hero. Samuel Plimsoll was a millionaire MP from...
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Samuel Plimsoll
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Plimsoll , 1824-98, English reformer. Plimsoll was particularly interested in the welfare of sailors...submergence allowed by law. This line has come to be known as Plimsoll's mark. He wrote Our Seamen (1872). Bibliography...
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Plimsoll, Samuel
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Plimsoll, Samuel (1824–98). Radical MP. Born in Bristol, a congregationalist, Plimsoll was successively a solicitor's clerk, manager of a brewery, and honorary secretary for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In 1853 he became...
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Plimsoll Line
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Plimsoll Line, a mark painted on the sides of...International Maritime Organization . The Plimsoll Mark was made compulsory in Britain under...bitter parliamentary struggle conducted by Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824–98), a champion...
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Plimsoll line
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Plimsoll line ˈplimsəl; ˈplimsōl also Plimsoll mark a marking on a ship's side showing...various sea conditions. named after Samuel Plimsoll (1824–98), the English...
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plimsoll
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
plimsoll P.('s) line , mark load-line on the hull of a ship XIX; rubber-soled sports shoe XX. Name of Samuel Plimsoll, English politician, to whose agitation the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 was largely due.
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