John Vaughan (Middlesbrough)

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John Vaughan was born in Worcester, he worked as a foreman at Dowlais Ironworks in South Wales. Later he moved to Walker-on-Tyne near Newcastle and became a manager for Losh, Wilson and Bell Ironworks.

In Newcastle he met Henry Bolckow and in 1839 they decided to form a business partnership and started an Ironworks in Middlesbrough. In 1846 they built blast furnaces at Witton Park, County Durham for smelting iron ore.

Later John Vaughan met John Marley a geologist from Darlington, on the 8th June 1850 they found ironstone in the Cleveland Hills which began the great Iron Rush. They later built mines and ironworks at Eston.

In 1855 he became Mayor of Middlesbrough.

He died in London on the 16th September 1868.