Charles Foote Gower (1807–28 January 1867) was an English soap manufacturer based in Ipswich.
The family moved to Nova Scotia House, Ipswich in 1817.
[3] Gower was in partnership with Charles Colchester as soapmakers until this was dissolved in 1845.
[5] In 1847 he published The Scientific Phenomena of Domestic Life, Familiarly Explained.
In this book he aimed to encourage the "young reader" to "arrange his enquiries and mode of thinking that he may the more readily be enabled to explain for himself the cause of any fresh fact which excites and interests his enquiring mind.