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  • VAUGHAN, JOHN (1871 - 1956), general Born 31 July 1871, the second son of John Vaughan, Nannau, Dolgellau, Merionethshire (he died in 1900) and Elinor Anne, daughter of Edward Owen, Garthyngharad, Dolgellau. The family could trace its descent from the Welsh princes of the middle ages. Vaughan was educated at Eton and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He joined the Seventh Hussars in 1891 and served in the Matabele relief
  • VAUGHAN, RICE (d. 1670), lawyer and author Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire. Having failed to get himself elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1654, he petitioned the Council of State, alleging irregularities on the part of the sheriff (Maurice Lewis); the member elected was John Vaughan, Cefnbodig (see summary account in W. R. Williams, Hist. of the Great Sessions in Wales, based on Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series
  • VAUGHAN, RICHARD (1550? - 1607), bishop Born c. 1550, second son of Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Nyffryn, Llyn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at S. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1574, M.A. 1577, D.D. 1589). Shortly after 1577, he was appointed chaplain to John Aylmer, bishop of London, who is said to have been related to him (Baker, Hist. of St. John's College, Cambridge, 235). He received numerous preferments, including a canonry
  • VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library Siôn Cain, Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd, Evan Lloyd Jeffrey of Palé, John Jones of Gellilyfdy (whose manuscripts became his property in 1658), Meredith Lloyd of Welshpool, William Maurice of Cefn-y-braich, the Wynne family of Gwydir, Sir Simonds d'Ewes, John Selden, James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, and others. The library of manuscripts which he collected at Hengwrt is the finest collection of Welsh
  • VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist later sources give the names of his sons as John, Edward, Arthur, and Gabriel, and in addition to the three daughters named above a fourth daughter, Mary, is included, who married Peter Price, Cynllwyd, fourth son of Thomas Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. In accordance with family tradition Rowland Vaughan played a prominent part in the public life of the county and, like his father, who was sheriff
  • VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales children of his are recorded: Ann, who married Sir John Wogan of Wiston, Pembrokeshire, and Henry Vaughan, father of Sir Thomas ap Harry (died 1560), who was comptroller of the household to queen Elizabeth.
  • VAUGHAN, THOMAS (1621 - 1666), alchemist - see VAUGHAN, HENRY
  • VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
  • VICARI, ANDREW (1932 - 2016), painter he had direct and close contact with Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Augustus John and Lucian Freud. Certainly when he was included in a group show at the Redfern Gallery in 1956, the critic (and Bacon's subsequent biographer) David Sylvester did write that 'at his best … he somehow produces images of remarkable vibrant quality, rich in poetry. They are pictures of mad fiestas, recalling "The
  • VILE, THOMAS HENRY (1882 - 1958), rugby player
  • VINCENT family of Bangor, rector of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, and became rector of Llanfachraeth in 1763. He had several daughters, of whom one, JANE (1751 - 1812) married her cousin, an army officer named JOHN JONES, son of Owen Jones of Penychen (Aber-erch), canon of Bangor, by Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Vincent (above). Their son, JAMES JONES (1792 - 1876), who in 1820 assumed the name JAMES
  • VINCENT, THOMAS (1677 - 1738), priest - see WYNN