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{{Orphan|date=November 2016}}Urban Metcalf (1775- c1820s) was a clothes salesman and asylum patient who was arrested for allegedly attempting to assassinate King George III. Metcalf went in and out of various asylums for his entire adult life before eventually being permanently committed to York asylum in 1822.[1] Metcalf reportedly believed that he was King, based on a 'delusional genealogy', and repeatedly tried to enter royal palaces.[1]

While a patient at Bedlam asylum, Metcalf wrote a pamphlet titled 'The Interior of Bethlem Hospital' and sent a copy to 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'.[2]

"When in his state of derangement, his propensity was to claim as his own property the royal palaces at Windsor, Kew, St James's, Buckingham House, &c; and he would frequently visit them all and take imaginary possession of them, by contriving to get within their entrances."[3]

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1. ^{{Cite journal|url=http://fixatedthreat.com/pdfs/Attacks%20on%20the%20British%20Royal%20Family.pdf|format=PDF|title=Attacks on the British Royal Family: The Role of Psychotic Illness|first1=David V. |last1=James |first2=Paul E. |last2=Mullen |first3=Michele T. |last3=Pathé |first4=J. Reid |last4=Meloy |first5=Frank R. |last5=Farnham |first6=Lulu |last6=Preston |first7=Brian |last7=Darnley |year=2008|pages=59–67|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law|volume=36|access-date=16 November 2016}}
2. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/storyofbethlehem00odon|title=The story of Bethlehem Hospital from its foundation in 1247|last=O'Donoghue|first=Edward Geoffrey|publisher=E.P. Dutton and Company|year=1915|isbn=|location=New York|pages=328|quote=|via=}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SadgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=%22urban+metcalf%22&source=bl&ots=WIC4iPX8BH&sig=6FXTpGfJHvVBhbJusDuL_WLB_ac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLmKOxqa3QAhXLDsAKHYS-D2wQ6AEIJzAF#v=onepage&q=%22urban%20metcalf%22&f=false|title=Sketches in Bedlam; or Characteristic traits of insanity, as displayed in the cases of one hundred and forty patients of both sexes, now, or recently, confined in New Bethlehem|last=Anon|first=|publisher=Sherwood Jones & Co|year=1824|isbn=|location=London|pages=164–5|quote=|via=Google Books}}
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