Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow

Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow, statue in Middlesbrough, 1881

Henry Bolckow (born December 8, 1806 in Sülten (today Weitendorf ), Mecklenburg , † June 22, 1878 in Ramsgate ) was a German-English businessman and politician.

Life

Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Bölckow was born as the son of Heinrich Bölckow from Varchow and his wife Caroline Duscher in Sülten in what was then the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Henry Bolckow worked in a trading office in Rostock from 1821 . There he met Christian Allhusen, who soon emigrated to England in order to trade in grain in Newcastle . Henry Bolckow came to England in 1827 .

In 1841 he founded the steel company Bolckow & Vaughan (B&V) together with his partner John Vaughan from Worcester , which initially consisted of an iron foundry and a rolling mill in Middlesbrough. Vaughan discovered the iron ore deposits there.

Henry Bolckow was married twice. In 1841 he married the widow Miriam Hay , who died the following year. In 1851 he married Harriet , the daughter of James Farrar from Halifax.

Bolckow became the first mayor of the newly formed town of Middlesbrough in 1853 and was a member of parliament from 1868 until his death.

Henry Bolckow had an urn made from granite, which still stands today at the birthplace of James Cook in Marton .

Bolckow suffered from severe kidney disease from 1877. He died on June 18, 1878 at the Granville Hotel in Ramsgate and was buried four days later in Marton Cemetery.

Several streets in northeastern English towns were named after Bolckow, for example in Guisborough, Middlesbrough, Eston and Skelton .

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1141 .

Web links

• Literature on Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow in the Landesbibliographie MV
• The Ironmaster - Henry Bolckow (English)