Thomas Ernest Stanton

Sir Thomas Ernest Stanton CBE FRS (12 December 1865 - 30 August 1931) was a British mechanical engineer and a specialist in fluid dynamics and tribology.

The eponymous Stanton number is based on his research on the transfer of heat between metal surfaces through a separating thin layer of lubricating fluid.

Stanton was born at Atherstone, Warwickshire to plumber Thomas and his wife Mary Ann Wagstaff.

Educated at the local grammar school, he then apprenticed at Gimson and Co. engineers before going to Owens College, Manchester in 1887.

His body was found, drowned, dressed in night clothes on 30 August 1931 off the beach near his family home.