Charles Foote Gower

Charles Foote Gower (1807–1867) was an English soap manufacturer based in Ipswich.[1] He was a significant businessman in that town.

Charles was the son of Richard Hall Gower[2] and Elizabeth Emptage, the daughter of George Emptage. The family moved to Nova Scotia House, Ipswich in 1817.

Charles was a major investor in the railways with capital of £40,462 invested in 1846.[3]

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."[4]^:147

He was Mayor of Ipswich 1853–1854.

References

"Gower, John Nathaniel". suffolkartists.co.uk. Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
"Catalogue: D/DU 456/2". www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Essex Archives Online. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (Vol. 38 ed.). London: Great Britain Parliament House of Commons. 1846. p. 118.
Gower, Charles Foote (1847). The Scientific Phenomena of Domestic Life. Second Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

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[SA_Gower-1] "Gower, John Nathaniel". suffolkartists.co.uk. Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 12 March 2020.

[EAO_D/DU_456/2-2] "Catalogue: D/DU 456/2". www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk. Essex Archives Online. Retrieved 12 March 2020.

[Accounts-3] Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons (Vol. 38 ed.). London: Great Britain Parliament House of Commons. 1846. p. 118.

[Scientific_Phenomena-4] Gower, Charles Foote (1847). The Scientific Phenomena of Domestic Life. Second Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.