Henry Winstanley
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Henry Winstanley was an English painter, engineer, and merchant who constructed the first Eddystone Lighthouse after losing two of his ships on the Eddystone rocks. He died while working on the projec
Self-portrait, c. 1680
Wimbledon Palace. North front. Built 1588. Etching by Henry Winstanley 1678 for Lord Danby.
Winstanley's lighthouse, as modified in 1699
Eddystone Lighthouse
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The Eddystone Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks, 9 statute miles south of Rame Head in Cornwall, England. The rocks are submerged, and are composed of Precambrian gneiss.
Henry Winstanley
…Henry Winstanley (31 March 1644 – 27 November 1703) was an English painter, engineer, and merchant who constructed the first Eddystone Lighthouse after losing two of his ships on the Eddystone rocks. He died while working on the project during the Great Storm of 1703. He was born in Saffron Walden…
An aerial view of the fourth lighthouse. (The stub of the third lighthouse is visible in the background.)
Original Winstanley lighthouse, Eddystone Rock, by Jaaziell Johnston, 1813
Cross section of Rudyard's lighthouse.
Outline of slab of lead removed from the stomach of Henry Hall, who swallowed the molten lead as it fell from the lantern roof during the 1755 fire