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VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist Ruth van Heyningen was born on 26 October 1917 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the only child of Alan Treverton Jones (1877-1924), a ship-owner, and his wife Mildred (née Garrod Thomas, 1882-1970). Her mother was a daughter of Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas (1853-1931), originally from Aberaeron, a doctor at the Gwent Royal Hospital and Liberal MP for South Monmouthshire (1917-18). Her father died when she
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician nineteen he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, as a foundation scholar, graduating with first class honours in the natural sciences in 1905. He continued his studies at St. Bartholomew's Medical School in London, qualifying MRCS in 1910. After a junior house appointment there he returned to Cambridge as a research assistant, working on bovine tuberculosis under the supervision of Sir German Sims
VAUGHAN family Clyro, serious enough for Thomas Cromwell to have them taken under escort to his own presence in London. It was probably this Roger Vaughan, having reached a position of respectability, who was sheriff of Radnorshire in 1576-7. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml, who took as second husband Charles Vaughan of Hergest, she being his second wife. ROGER VAUGHAN IV was the heir. He
VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, ). They were the parents of Sir John Vaughan (1603 - 1674), chief justice. The eldest son of the chief justice and Jane (Stedman) was EDWARD VAUGHAN (died 1683), who in 1677 edited his father's Reports. He was member of Parliament for Cardigan, 26 February 1678/9 to 28 March 1681, and was for a short me one of the Lords of the Admiralty. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Sir William Hooker. Their son
VAUGHAN family Llwydiarth, Howell Vaughan of Glan-llyn, and sister of John Vaughan, who was sheriff of Merioneth in 1594. The son of the sheriff of Montgomeryshire, OWEN, married Catherine, daughter of Morrice ap Robert, heir of Llangedwyn, by whom he had two sons, JOHN (Inner Temple, 1606) and Sir ROBERT, who married Catherine, daughter of William, 1st lord Powis. The family became extinct in the male line with Sir Robert, and
VAUGHAN family Courtfield, ; he married Eliza Louisa, daughter of John Rolls, the Hendre, Monmouth. Amongst the sons of the marriage were: HERBERT VAUGHAN (Cardinal Vaughan), archbishop of Westminster; ROGER WILLIAM VAUGHAN, archbishop of Sydney; KENELM VAUGHAN, priest, who travelled in Spain and North America; JOSEPH VAUGHAN, O.S.B., founder and prior of S. Benedict's monastery, Fort Augustus; BERNARD VAUGHAN, who became a
VAUGHAN family Pant Glas, Norton of Church Stretton (some of that family are in the D.N.B.) died 8 December 1669, at Glyn in Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, at the age of 91. They had four children - not five as stated by Griffith. (1) THOMAS VAUGHAN (III); little is known about him. He became a member of Gray's Inn in February 1645/5; married Lucy, daughter of chief justice Sir John Vaughan, of Trawsgoed, Cardiganshire, and there are
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, The Vaughans of Golden Grove claimed descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, prince of Powys. The first member of the family to settle at Golden Grove was JOHN VAUGHAN. His son, WALTER VAUGHAN married (1) Katherine, second daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefwr (see Rice family), and (2) Letitia, daughter of Sir John Perrot. He was succeeded by his eldest son JOHN VAUGHAN (1572 - 1634), M.P. Politics
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, already been on friendly terms. Their eldest son, GRIFFITH VAUGHAN, died without issue in 1697; the second son, RICHARD VAUGHAN (died 1734), maintained the line. By his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Evan Lloyd of Bodidris, Denbighshire., he became the father of WILLIAM VAUGHAN (1707 - 1775) (below), whose wife, Catherine, daughter of Hugh Nanney, became eventual heiress of Nannau. Their only child was
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, wealth in the wars of Edward III. In the pedigree books, he is said to have married the heiress of Sir Walter Bredwardine, and to have taken up residence at Bredwardine, followed by his son, RHOSIER ' HEN,' who married a daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, and his grandson, ROGER VAUGHAN, who married Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, and fell with his father-in-law in the personal defence of Henry V on the
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, This branch of the Vaughan family was founded by ROGER VAUGHAN, second son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower. He was possibly the Roger Vaughan of Tyle-glas who was pardoned on 9 July 1491, and figures again in Henry VIII's pardon roll (1509) as Roger ap Roger of Tyle-glas, or Roger Vaughan of Talgarth. He was granted the offices of steward and receiver of the lordship of Dinas, 17 January 1509
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine - see Vaughan family of Bredwardine - by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half-brother William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap

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