Article: The epigrams of Sir John Harington.(Brief article)(Book review)

Encyclopedia entry: Sir John Harington
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      420 words ...Sir John Harington 1560?-1612, English author. He spent most of his career at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, where he became known for his ...

Article: John Harington
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Harington Sir John Harington (1560-1612) was an ambitious courtier who spent much of his life seeking favor at Queen Elizabeth's Court. He relied on his sharp wit and lively descriptive writing to attract attention, sometimes for better ...

Article: Letter to the Editor: Sir John's john
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 4, 1998 ;     310 words ... ... According to the 1970 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the flush lavatory was invented in about 1590 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Elizabeth I. Patrick Robertson's Shell Book of Firsts contains a description of the Harington water ...

Article: All toilets are not created equal
The Journal Record;  April 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... delight of Queen Victoria, was not, I'm sorry to say, the father of the original flush toilet. That was Sir John Harington. Sir John was a naughty boy who had been banished from the royal presence for translating and circulating among the young ...

Article: At home and away: the Earl of Leicester. (favorite of Elizabeth ...
History Today;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... nevertheless left immediately on the 28th for Sir Thomas Leigh's house (Stoneleigh), then Combe Abbey Sir John Harington's house, Althorpe Sir John Spencer's house), Grafton (a royal house of which he was lease-holder, Easton Neston, Leckchampstead ...

Article: Charles Chester and Richard Hakluyt.(Critical Essay)
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, and Sir John Harington. But this article retraces his ... writers including Thomas Nashe, Sir John Harington, Everard Guilpin, Thomas Dekker, and Sir John Davies, some of whom, however ...

Article: For our convenience.(HISTORY)(toilets)(Essay)
New Internationalist;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... have made a comeback. TOILETS OF YESTERDAY ... 1. FIRST FLUSH--FIT FOR A QUEEN Sir John Harington's design for the first water closet. In 1592, Sir John installed this in his house near Bath to impress his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I ...