Charles Foote Gower
Charles Foote Gower was an English soap manufacturer based in Ipswich. He was a significant businessman in that town.
Charles was the son of Richard Hall Gower
Charles was a major investor in the railways with capital of £40,462 invested in 1846.
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."
He was Mayor of Ipswich 1853–1854.
