<Li> Reference suggesting 1851 proposal, 1856 drawings, and apparent acceptance for Crystal Palace; much later date of 1884 for underground convenience opposite Royal Exchange . </Li> <P> During the Crimean War, Jennings headed the sanitary commission sent out by the British Government to improve the condition at Selimiye Barracks hospital at Scutari, Sebastopol at the request of Florence Nightingale . </P> <P> During the 1860s Jennings was most certainly building up an export business . Somewhere between 1866 and 1888 he supplied Khedive of Egypt, Tewfik Pasha with a very elaborate mahogany shower cabinet . He also supplied the Empress Eugenie of France with a magnificent copper bath . He was definitely building up a good reputation and in 1870 supplied the water closet with his patented flushing mechanism in Lord Bute's Victorian bathroom in the Bute Tower at Cardiff Castle designed by architect William Burges . </P> <P> George Jennings supervised the public facilities at the thanksgiving service for the Prince of Wales at St Paul's Cathedral to celebrate his recovery from typhoid . He had been a favourite of the late Prince Consort which was recorded by The Sanitary Record:' The Prince Consort greatly encouraged this indefatigable Engineer . In sanitary science he was avant coureur in his day and generation, and was among the first Engineers to practically carry out the theories of the wise men of the time .' Sanitas sanitarium' was Mr Jennings's motto before Disraeli adopted it as his political maxim...and he implored a shocked city of London to accept his public lavatories free, on the condition that the...attendants whom he furnished were allowed to make a small charge for the use of the closets and towels .' </P>

When was the first public flushing toilet opened