Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles
Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (8 October 1866 – 9 September 1936) was a British metallurgist,[1] and inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization.[2]
Early life[edit]
He was born in Ventnor, the fourth son of naval inventor Captain Cowper Phipps Coles. He studied at King's College London and Crystal Palace School of Engineering and became a metallurgist.
Career[edit]
He took out a patent on the sherardising process in 1900. Cowper-Coles married his research assistant Constance Hamilton Watts in 1919. The couple continued to work on research together until his death.[3]
They had three sons, the eldest of whom, Sherard, was the father of British diplomat Sherard Cowper-Coles.
Death[edit]
He died at home, at Rossall House in Sunbury-on-Thames, of oesophageal cancer, survived by his wife and three sons.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Sherard Cowper Coles". The Oxford Biography Index. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ "Sherard Osborn Cowper Coles". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
- ^ "The Woman Engineer". www2.theiet.org. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Sharp, Robert (2004). "Coles, Sherard Osborn Cowper- (1866–1936), electrometallurgist and inventor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72803. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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