WINSTANLEY, HENRY

WINSTANLEY, HENRY
   English engineer; erected a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rock in 1696, and completed it in four years; it was built of timber, and had not much strength; he perished in it in a storm in 1703.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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