Side view, Vaughan Library
Sir George Gilbert Scott
1863
Harrow School
Photograph and text Jacqueline Banerjee
Other views
The library was named after Dr Charles John Vaughan, the reforming headmaster of 1845-59, who had been one of Thomas Arnold's leading pupils at Rugby, and who had "raised pupil numbers from 69 to 469 and reformed a school of whose violent pupils the local inhabitants had been in considerable fear" (Copley 178).