Alfred John Carpenter (1825–92)

Physician and advocate of sewage farming. Trained at St Thomas’s Hospital, London; entered medical practice in Croydon in 1852. MD, London, 1859. Member of the Croydon Board of Health, 1859–79, and founder and manager of one of the earliest municipal sewage farms, in Beddington. Lectured on public health at St Thomas’s, 1875–84.