biography
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Metcalf, John
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known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough
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| male
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| lived:
| (1717–1810)
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| biography:
| British engineer. He lost his sight at six, but became an outstanding athlete and horseman. During the 1745 Jacobite rising he fought at Falkirk and Culloden (1746), set up a stagecoach between York and Knaresborough, and from 1765 constructed 185 mi of road, and numerous bridges, in Lancashire and Yorkshire. |
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