William Carr Crofts (1846–1894) was an English architect and entrepreneur who was a photographic pioneer.
[5] At the time Crofts was a gentleman living at Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street.
[6] Since Crofts and Donisthorpe were staunch laissez faire supporters they were constantly at odds with the ever-rising socialist movement in England.
In 1890, the riots at Trafalgar Square were fueled with socialist contempt over the government and their nemesis corporate England.
Crofts and Donisthorpe wished to make their first recording on their newly patented "Kinesigraph" at that very square; the contents of the imaging is notably short but forever prolific.