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 became a metallurgist.
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.
He died at home, at Rossall House in Sunbury-on-Thames, of oesophageal cancer, survived by his wife and three sons.Coles, Sherard Osborn Cowper- (1866–1936), electrometallurgist and inventor. 978-0-19-861412-8. 10.1093/ref:odnb/72803. 2004. Sharp. Robert.