William Carr Crofts

For the rower and schoolmaster, see William Crofts (rower).

William Carr Crofts (1846–1894) was an English architect and entrepreneur who was a photographic pioneer.

Crofts was born at Bradford, Yorkshire and became an architect.^[1] With his cousin, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, he was one of the founders of the Liberty and Property Defence League in 1882.^[2] In 1890 he and Donisthorpe were able to produce a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square.^[3] In 1891 with Donisthorpe he was awarded a patent for a camera capable of producing instantaneous photographs.^[4] At the time Crofts was a gentleman living at Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street.

His brother was Ernest Crofts was a painter.

References

^ British Census 1881 RG11 4534/53
^ Whos Who of the Victorian Cinema - Wordsworth Donisthorpe
^ The History of the Discovery of Cinematography 1885-1889
^ Terramedia Chronomedia 1891

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Name	Crofts, William Carr
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Date of birth	1846
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Date of death	1894
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