Monument To John Vaughan

NZ 4920 SE 9/89

MIDDLESBROUGH VICTORIA SQUARE, south end. Monument to John Vaughan.

II G.V.

Monument, dated 1884, to John Vaughan, by G.A. Lawson. Bronze figure and tablets; roughly dressed ironstone pedestal and plinth. Standing male figure with coat draped over left arm, on shallow pedestal and deep slightly-tapered plinth. Relief-sculptured tablet in each face of pedestal depicting: ironstone mine, ironworks, iron-rolling mill, and railway. Renewed tablet on north face of plinth inscribed: "JOHN VAUGHAN 1799-1868. MAYOR OF MIDDLESBROUGH 1855. DISCOVERED IRONSTONE IN THE CLEVELAND HILLS. FOUNDER OF THE IRON TRADE IN CLEVELAND. PARTNER IN BOLCKOW, VAUGHAN & CO. LTD., WHO BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST IRON WORKS IN MIDDLESBROUGH IN 1840". Originally sited in Exchange Place; moved here 1914. Included for historic interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4961420171