John Varley (1828-1892)
1892 Obituary [1]
JOHN VARLEY was born in Leeds on 7th August 1828.
At the age of fourteen he entered the works of Messrs. Maclea and March, Union Foundry, Holbeck, and rose to be assistant manager.
On leaving them he acted as traveller for Messrs. J. Whitham and Sons, Perseverance Iron Works, Leeds, for three years; at the expiration of which he went to a firm in London as a draughtsman and engineer, and afterwards was engaged by Messrs. Charles Cammell and Co., Sheffield, for whom ho acted for many years as their chief representative.
He was next associated with the Farnley Iron Co., near Leeds, for twelve years, until mild steel superseded Yorkshire iron; from there he went to the Leeds Forge Co., Armley, where he was for upwards of ten years.
His death took place in Liverpool on 17th November 1892, of syncope, at the ago of sixty-four.
He became an Associate of this Institution in 1869.
1892 Obituary [2]