Vero Charles Driffield

Vero Charles Driffield (7 May 1848 – 14 November 1915) was an English chemical engineer who also became involved in photographic research.

He also attended a private school in Southport where he came into contact with a Swiss master called Dr Knecht.

In 1871 he became an engineer at the Gaskell–Deacon Works in Widnes, Lancashire where the chief chemist was the Swiss Ferdinand Hurter.

Hurter applied his scientific mind to photography and together they carried out important research into the subject.

They published eight papers and in 1898 they were jointly awarded the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society.