William Thomas Sugg

William Thomas Sugg (about 1832 to 1907) was a London gas engineer and the head of the gas lighting firm William Sugg and Company, which worked from Vincent Works in Westminster. Trained by his father, whose assistant he was for nine years, he began his independent career as a gas engineer in 1860 and became known for the accuracy of his gas testing. His firm made street lamp governors, flat flame and argand burners, regenerative burners, incandescent gas lighting, cooking stoves and gas fires, and one of his London argand burners was chosen as the standard testing burner by the first London Gas Referees. In 1876 he read a paper on estimating the illuminating power of coal gas, for which he was awarded a Telford premium. He also took out a patent on ventilators in 1897 and died on 28 February 1907.