Urban Metcalf
Urban Metcalf (1775-c. 1820s) was a clothes salesman and asylum patient who was arrested for allegedly attempting to assassinate George III of the United Kingdom, King George III. Metcalf went in and out of various asylums for his entire adult life before eventually being permanently committed to Bootham Park Hospital, York asylum in 1822. Metcalf reportedly believed that he was King, based on a 'delusional genealogy', and repeatedly tried to enter royal palaces. While a patient at Bethlem Royal Hospital, Bedlam asylum, Metcalf wrote a pamphlet titled 'The Interior of Bethlem Hospital' and sent a copy to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, one of the governors. The book complained about the conduct of officials at the asylum and 'fired a train which exploded and dislodged certain persons and practices'."When in his state of derangement, his propensity was to claim as his own property the royal palaces at Windsor, Kew, St James's, Buckingha ...
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George III Of The United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Monarchy of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until Acts of Union 1800, the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820. He was the longest-lived and longest-reigning king in British history. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover but, unlike his two predecessors, he was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language and never visited Hanover. George's life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in th ...
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