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.
Cowper-Coles married his research assistant Constance Hamilton Watts in 1919.
He died at home, at Rossall House in Sunbury-on-Thames, of oesophageal cancer, survived by his wife and three sons.