CIBSE HERITAGE GROUP PORTRAITS of SANITARY

ENGINEERS

Alexander Cummings 1732-1814 (London clockmaker, patented a water closet in 1775)

Josiah George Jennings 1810-1882 (One of the greatest sanitary pioneers of Victorian Britain)

Joseph Bramah 1749-1814 (Famous for devising a high security lock but improved on Cummings’ closet

with his own patent of 1778)

John Shanks 1825-1895 (Rose from a journeyman plumber to establish a sanitaryware

manufacturing business in 1875)

Rev. Henry Moule 1801-1880 (Patented an earth closet in 1860)

Sir Henry Doulton 1820-1897 (Founder of the famous Lambeth pottery, his success being built on

the wide scale manufacture of salt-glazed sewer pipes)

Thomas Crapper 1835-1910 (His strength was as an entrepreneur who raised the expectations of

both manufacturers and the public)

Frederick Humpherson 1854-1919 (Apprenticed to Thomas Crapper, founded his own company in 1876)

Sir Thomas William Twyford 1814-1921 (Converted the family pottery business into a major sanitaryware

manufacturer from 1849)

Matthew Hall 1814-1878 (Founded his business in 1848)