Altruism Piers Brendon on the campaigning Samuel Plimsoll, the sailors' best friend

The Sunday Telegraph London | June 25, 2006| | Copyright

The Plimsoll Sensation:

The Great Campaign

to Save Lives at Sea

BY NICOLETTE JONES

LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 20, 395 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

On the warm evening of Thursday July 22, 1875, the House of Commons was engaged in a process known as the 'Slaughter of the Innocents', the killing of bills that could not be carried in that session, when it was disrupted by a volcanic outburst from one of its Members. Samuel Plimsoll, a rich coal merchant who represented Derby, violently protested about the callous dispatch of the Merchant Shipping Bill, which might have saved ...

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