Thomas Fearn (1812-1876)
c.1812 Born
1873 of Birmingham, patent on "improvements in the electro-deposition of tin."[1]
1876 Died in Edgbaston, an electro-metallurgist[2]
1876 Obituary[3]
The Birmingham Gazette, announcing the death of Mr. Thomas Fearn, says: "Mr. Fearn may be said to have been the inventor of the process known as electro-metallurgy, the patent of which he disposed of to the Messrs. Elkington, and which he was instrumental in introducing to every part of the Continent. He studied at the Queen's College, Birmingham, afterwards at Paris, and for some time was a distinguished pupil of the well-known German chemist, Dr. Liebig, with whom he formed a lasting friendship. He was well known to the leading electro-metallurgists of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Cologne, and in Birmingham his society was courted not only for his bright and far-reaching intelligence, but for his kindly and unostentatious geniality."