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{{Short description|English engineer}}
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| birth_date = 30 June 1731
| birth_place = Fenny Park, [[Tiverton, Devon|Tiverton]], [[Devon]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]
| death_date = 1 March 1801 (aged 69)
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'''Sir John Call, 1st Baronet''' (30 June 1731 – 1 March 1801) was an [[England|English]] [[engineer]] and [[baronet]].

He was born at Fenny Park, [[Tiverton, Devon|Tiverton]], [[Devon]], educated at [[Blundell's School]] and went to [[India]] at the age of 17 with [[Benjamin Robins]], the chief engineer and captain-general of artillery in the [[Honourable East India Company|East India Company]]'s settlements. After the death of Robins, Call became engineer-in-chief, and eventually chief engineer with a seat on the Governor's Council. [[Robert Clive]] strongly recommended Call for the Governorship of [[Madras]], but he had to return to England on the death of his father on 31 December 1766.<ref>[http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-JohnCall.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133337/http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/N-JohnCall.html |date=29 September 2007 }}</ref>

On his return, he became [[High Sheriff of Cornwall]] for 1771–72 and was elected MP for [[Callington (UK Parliament constituency)|Callington]] in 1784, a seat he held until his death. In 1784 he also became a partner in the Pybus and Son banking house and was created the 1st Baronet Call in 1791.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13318 |date=18 June 1791 |page=363}}</ref><ref name = FRS>{{cite web| url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27call%27%29| title = Library and Archive catalog|publisher = Royal Society|accessdate =28 March 2012}}</ref>

Call built [[Whiteford House]] near [[Stoke Climsland]], Cornwall (demolished in 1913)<ref>[http://www.whitefordfestival.co.uk/location_whitefordhistory.php] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914190714/http://www.whitefordfestival.co.uk/location_whitefordhistory.php |date=14 September 2007 }}</ref> and the nearby folly, Whiteford Temple, now owned by the [[Landmark Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/featured/whiteford_temple.htm|title=The Landmark Trust|publisher=Landmarktrust.org.uk|accessdate=10 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110215736/http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/featured/whiteford_temple.htm|archive-date=10 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also built the reproduction Civil War fort on the summit of [[Kit Hill]] and was responsible for the construction of [[Bodmin Gaol]] in 1779.

He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1775,<ref name = FRS/> and a Fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London|Society of Antiquaries]] in 1785.<ref>D. L. Prior, 'Call, Sir John, first baronet (1732–1801)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], [[Oxford University Press]], September 2004; online edn, January 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4393 Retrieved 18 September 2008]</ref>
[[file:John Call monument, St Margarets old churchyard (geograph 3868569).jpg|left|thumb|180px|Monument to Sir John Call]]
[[File:Inscription on Monument Of Sir John Call Bart, Lee Old Churchyard.jpg|left|thumb|Inscription on Monument of Sir John Call Bart, Lee Old Churchyard]]
He married Philadelphia, the daughter and coheiress of William Batty of Kingston upon Thames; they had two sons and four daughters. His eldest son, [[William Pratt Call]], succeeded him, becoming the 2nd Baronet Call on his father's death in 1801.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/call-john-1732-1801| title = CALL, John (1732-1801), of Whiteford, nr. Callington, Cornw.|publisher = History of Parliament Online|accessdate= 2012-12-05}}</ref>
He became blind seven years before he died, of [[apoplexy]], at his home in Old Burlington Street, London, and was buried at St Margaret's old churchyard, [[Lee, London|Lee]], Kent (now in the borough of Lewisham), where there is a grade II* listed monument to his memory.<ref name=tcb>{{cite book|title=The Complete Baronetage, Volume V|editor-last=Cokayne|editor-first=G.E. |year=1906|publisher=Pollard & Company|page=272}}</ref>

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