Back جون هارينغتون (كاتب) Arabic John Harington German John Harington Finnish John Harington French John Harington Galician ג'ון הרינגטון HE John Harington Italian Ioannes Harington Latin John Harington Malagasy John Harington Portuguese
Sir John Harington | |
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| Baptised | 4 August 1560 |
| Died | 20 November 1612 (aged 52) Kelston, Somerset, England |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
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| Known for | Modern flush toilet |
| Spouse | Mary Rogers |
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Sir John Harington (4 August 1560 – 20 November 1612), of Kelston, Somerset, England, but born in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.[1] He became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and other writings caused him to fall in and out of favour with the Queen. He was the author of the description of a flush-toilet forerunner installed in his Kelston house appears in A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), a political allegory and coded attack on the monarchy, which is nowadays his best-known work.
- ^ Jason Scott-Warren: "Harington, Sir John (bap. 1560, d. 1612)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Retrieved 17 August 2015.