Sir Henry Cort Harold Carpenter FRS (6 February 1875 – 13 September 1940) was a British metallurgist and specialist on steels.
His ancestors included William Benjamin Carpenter and the metallurgist Henry Cort.
In 1914 he joined the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, South Kensington as Professor of Metallurgy.
[1][2] Carpenter was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918 [3] and knighted in the 1929 Birthday Honours.
He was found dead from drowning in a stream after suffering a heart attack while out walking alone in the Clyne valley, Swansea.