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John Harington (writer): биография, достижения и непреходящее наследие

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. 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, appearing 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.

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Though he passed away in 1612, his ideas continue to be studied, debated, and built upon by scholars and practitioners worldwide.

John Harington (writer) remains one of the most celebrated minds to emerge from England, a testament to the rich intellectual heritage of the region.

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