Thomas Sutton

Thomas Sutton (*1819, +1875) founded a photographic company in Jersey in 1855, together with Blanquart-Evrard. He was editor of Photographic Notes, a journal which he had founded together with his partner. He published the first English Dictionary of Photography in 1858.

Sutton obtained a patent for his construction of a single lens reflex camera in 1861. It's supposed to have been the first camera of this type in the world. The camera was manufactured by Thomas Ross and J. Dallmeyer.