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]

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 he became a metallurist. He took out a patent on the sherardising process in 1900, one of more than 900 patents granted to him.

He married his research assistant Constance Hamilton Watts in 1919. Their son Sherard Hamilton Cowper-Coles was the father of British diplomat Sherard Cowper-Coles.

He died at home, at Rossall House in Sunbury-on-Thames, of oesophageal cancer, survived by his wife and three sons.

References

1. "Sherard Cowper Coles". The Oxford Biography Index. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
2. "Sherard Osborn Cowper Coles". Grace's Guide. Retrieved August 24, 2015.