Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, ) THOMAS VAUGHAN, Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Porthaml - and four daughters who married into prominent families, the wives of Robert Raglan, Henry Donne, Morgan Gamage, and Morgan ap Thomas ap Gruffudd ap Nicolas. His second wife was Margaret, lady Powis, daughter of James, lord Audley, by his second wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent. (Her first husband, Sir Richard
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington , wife of Robert Whitney, upon whose wedding Lewis Glyn Cothi composed an epithalamium. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, maintained the tradition which made Hergest a resort for the greatest Welsh bards of the 15th century. For three generations Welsh culture found a home at Hergest. There were preserved the ' Red Book of Hergest,' which is now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the ' White Book of Hergest
VAUGHAN, ARTHUR OWEN (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863? - 1919), adventurer and author This was an adopted name; his baptismal name was Robert Scourfield, son of Robert Mills and Jane Ann, daughter of Joseph Scourfield. Born at Southport, 6 September 1863. His father was buried less than a month later. His mother moved to Manchester and remarried. Her second husband, Luke Etchells, died in 1869. The child was brought up by his grandmother who came originally from Tremeirchion. She
VAUGHAN, EDWARD (d. 1661), Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple A fairly exhaustive account of his career is given by Rees L. Lloyd; what follows here is only a summary. He was the fourth son of Owen Vaughan, Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire and Catherine, sole heiress of Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn. Like his three brothers, John Vaughan, Sir Robert Vaughan, and Roger Vaughan, he became a member of the Inner Temple, being admitted 12 November 1618 (but was not
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge under Theophilus Field) the manuscript of the ' Book of Llandaff ' and lent it to Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, to transcribe (see E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123). In one of his most noteworthy opinions, he held that the West-minister courts could not issue final process into Wales (Reports, 395). His authority was sufficient to safeguard the Welsh courts for a period. He based his argument on the
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 North Wales. Robert Powell Vaughan, or Robert Vaughan as he came to be known, was born at Gwengraig, about 1592, judging by the record of his entry into Oriel College, Oxford, at the age of 20, in 1612. He left college without taking his degree. The early period of his life is obscure, but it can be argued from his friendship with Rhys and Siôn Cain, whom he acknowledged to be his tutors in genealogy
VAUGHAN, Sir ROBERT WILLIAMES (d. 1859), baronet - see WYNN
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales He was the son of Robert Vaughan of Monmouth and Margaret his wife. The assertion in History of Parliament (1439-1509) that he was the heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower must be rejected. He received denizenship (being a Welshman) by order of the Privy Council and at the instance of lord Somerset and Adam Moleyns, 30 March 1442/3. He was granted the offices of steward, receiver, and master of
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer Neath he delivered there lectures in elementary physics. He frequented the nearby Royal Institution at Swansea where there were discussions on topics such as Robert Chamber's Vestiges of creation. His period in Neath was a significantly formative one in the development of Wallace as a naturalist. In 1847 he published his first scientific 'paper' - a short note in the Zoologist describing his discovery
WALLENSIS Grey Friar who became bishop of S. Davids Religion; there is no doubt at all that he was Welsh, for we have his own statement to this effect. He was one of the first four Grey Friars to teach at Oxford, and both Roger Bacon and Robert Grosseteste spoke highly of him (Little, Studies in English Franciscan History, 194-5). He was appointed bishop of S. Davids, 16 July 1247, consecrated 26 July 1248

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