Death
He died less than three years later, at his house in Adelphi Buildings, London and was interred in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Mrs. Garrick survived her husband by 43 years.
Shortly before his death he worked on the production of The Camp with Sheridan at Drury Lane and caught a very bad cold. The Camp was based around the British response to a threatened invasion by France, leading some to jokingly claim that Garrick was the only casualty of the ultimately abandoned invasion.
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