Edward Percy Coston
Edward Percy Coston (1883-1923)
1923 Obituary [1]
EDWARD PERCY COSTON was born in Birkenhead on 24th May 1883, and was educated privately and at the University College of Liverpool.
At the age of nineteen he began an apprenticeship at the works of Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Co., Ltd., and three years later he became a draughtsman with Messrs. J. Gordon Alison and Co., Ltd., of Birkenhead.
In 1908 he took up research, work on ejector condensers, etc., at the University of Liverpool, and in the following year he became assistant lecturer and demonstrator in Engineering at the same University.
This position he held until 1916, when he became Senior Inspector under the Ministry of Munitions until February 1919, when he returned to the University as Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Faculty.
His death, following an operation, took place at Birkenhead on 23rd March 1923, in his fortieth year.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1919.