WITH reference to John Phillpott's very amusing article on toilets, he may be interested to know that it was in fact an Irishman who first invented the lavatory.
Sorry, that should read lavatory seat. But it was in fact an Englishman who later put the hole in it.
JOHN EVANS,
Kempsey,
Worcestershire.
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