Liverpool - The Rathbone Monument - People by river , monument in middle distance. Part of Box 62 Boswell Collection - Liverpool. The Rathbone Monument commemorates William Rathbone who died in 1902, although the monument had been made in 1899. It was created by George Frampton, and consists of a bronze robed figure standing on a stone pedestal. Its inscription records that Rathbone founded the district nursing movement, and the forerunners of the Universities of Liverpool and North Wales