William Thomas Sugg
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William Thomas Sugg (1833 – 28 February 1907) was a British gas lighting engineer. He was trained from 1851 by his father, who had founded William Sugg and Company as a gas lighting firm in 1837. After his father's 1860 death Sugg took over the family firm. He had success in producing Christiana gas lights and a gas-powered version of the Argand lamp. Sugg also produced gas-powered stoves, fires and photometers. Under him William Sugg and Company became the most important manufacturer of gaslights in the world.