Later Life
Later he visited the United States to try to secure the adoption of a less bitter tone towards England in the historical textbooks used in American schools. He died in Folkestone in 1898 and is buried in St Martin's churchyard, Cheriton, Kent.
British writer Nicolette Jones published The Plimsoll Sensation, a highly-acclaimed biography - getting the idea for it from living in 1995 at the Plimsoll Road in North London, but knowing hardly anything about whom it was named after.
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