b. 1819; d. 1875
Thomas Sutton set up a photographic firm in Jersey in 1855, together with Blanquart-Evrard, but he is remembered as a prolific writer on photography. For eleven years he edited "Photographic Notes", a journal which he had founded together with Blanquart-Evrard. He was responsible for the first English Dictionary of Photography (1858).
Sutton also had the distinction of being the first to develop a true single-lens reflex camera. This he patented in 1861. The camera was manufactured by Thomas Ross and J. Dallymeyer. Brian Coe, in his excellent book "From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures" states that Dallymeyer used to charge £2.75 for a quarter-plate model.