Suffling, Ernest
Ernest Richard Suffling (1855-1911) was born in London, and educated both there and at Shoreham and at Ardingly College. He trained in stained glass with Alexander Gibbs and worked as a stained glass artist for thirty years from the West London Stained Glass Works in the Edgware Road, London. His windows are found both in Britain and overseas.
Suffling was also an author producing a number of non-fiction and fiction titles, along with writing for London magazines. He wrote extensively on the Norfolk Broads, for which he had a great affection, while his fiction books were written largely for boys. His most well-known book on stained glass, A Treatise on the Art of Glass Painting; Prefaced with a Review of Ancient Glass (Scott Greenwood & Son London 1902), is still in print.
Sources:
National Newspaper archives
Stained Glass Marks & Monograms, complied by Joyce Little, and edited by Angela Goedicke & Margaret Washbourn (NADFAS, 2002)