Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, Thomas, to the widow of Sir James Berkeley, heiress of Tretower. Roger Vaughan enlarged and remodelled the house by the addition of a western range of buildings with a hall. Like all his kindred, Roger Vaughan is found on the Yorkist side in the divisions of his time, but he also was granted a pardon by the Coventry Parliament of 1457. The Privy Council ordered him, with Sir William Herbert and Walter
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington The first of the Vaughans to reside here was THOMAS AP ROGER VAUGHAN, son of Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, who was killed at Agincourt. His mother was Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam. He was, therefore, a full brother of Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine, and Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, and a uterine brother of Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and of Sir Richard Herbert. His wife was Ellen
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Bruce Vaughan was born 6 March 1856 at Frederick Street, Cardiff, the youngest of the four children of Thomas Vaughan, sailor and tailor, and his wife Jane Agnes Gribble (née Davies). Educated at a private school in Charles Street, Cardiff, Bruce Vaughan became articled to W D Blessley, a prominent local architect, and attended the Cardiff Science and Arts Schools, winning the medal of the
VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621 - 1695), poet for solitary communion with nature and his reminiscences of childhood, he anticipates Wordsworth. His twin brother was THOMAS VAUGHAN (1621 - 1666), alchemist and poet, who is the subject of an article in the D.N.B. and who has also been dealt with extensively in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock (3rd edn.), iii, 207, and in F. E. Hutchinson's book on Henry Vaughan (especially in
VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Tenby where he wrote his best known work of Welsh interest, viz. The South Wales Squires (1926); he had previously written a national eisteddfod essay on ' The Welsh Jacobites ' (published in Cymm. Trans.; 1920) and a study of Thomas Johnes of Hafod and his private press (Cymm. Trans., two articles, 1911-12, 1919-20); he was also a contributor to West Wales Historical Records, the Journal of the Welsh
VAUGHAN, JOHN (d. 1824), artist and violinist one of the earliest members of the Society. Leathart says that he was looked upon as 'a dandy of the first order, a distinction he was not a little proud of', and adds that he was related to lady Mostyn, mother of the Sir Thomas Mostyn, who died in 1831. This lady Mostyn was Margaret, daughter of Hugh Wynn, Ll.D.; she was heiress of Bodysgallen (near Conway), Plas-mawr (Conway), Bodidris
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1663 - 1722) Derllys Court,, social and religious reformer Born 1663, the son of John Vaughan of Derllys (1624 - 1684), barrister, and Rachel, daughter of Sir Henry Vaughan, Derwydd, Carmarthenshire. His paternal grandfather was a brother of John Vaughan, Golden Grove, the first earl of Carbery. He was (probably) educated at Carmarthen grammar school. On 6 October 1692 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Thomas (née Protheroe), Meidrym
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge - John Selden, who dedicated to him his Vindiciae Maris Clausi; Thomas Hobbes, who visited him thrice weekly at one period; Sir Matthew Hale, his Acton neighbour; and Edward Stillingfleet, who preached his funeral sermon. He died on 10 December 1674, and was probably buried in the Temple Church, London. He gave some support to the king's forces during the Civil War (see J. R. Phillips, Civil War, ii
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 were dispersed by Thomas Kerslake, a bookseller of Bristol, early in the 19th century. The catalogue which Robert Vaughan compiled of his library is extant (NLW MS 9095B). He transcribed a large number of literary and historical texts, compiled a concordance of scripture, genealogical books, notably the great collection of Peniarth MS 287, and tracts on early Welsh history and chronology, and
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, THOMAS (1621 - 1666), alchemist - see VAUGHAN, HENRY

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