Thomas Crapper

Thomas Crapper (baptised 28 September 1836, died 27 January 1910) was an English plumber and businessman. He founded Thomas Crapper &amp; Co in London, a plumbing equipment company. Notability of him with regard to toilets has often been overerly stated, mainly due to the publication in 1969 of a fictional biography by New Zealand person Wallace Reyburn, who publishes satire.
Another way he can be noted is that some say the word crap comes from his name. Actually, it's a Middle Ages orgin. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words: the Dutch "krappen" (to pluck off, cut off, or separate) and the Old French "crappe" (shiftings, waste or rejected matter, from the medieval Latin "crappa").