Commercial Interests
In 1865, he became agent to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, and two years later was made managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, a post that he held until 1874. From 1869 he was a Director of the International Mid-Channel Telegraph Co. Ltd. A cable ship was named for him and the SS Sherard Osborn was launched on the 4th April 1878, for the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company.
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