- GB-2014-WSA-16407
- Person
- d. 1641
VAUGHAN, SIR WILLIAM, second son of Walter Vaughan MP, Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, and his first wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Rice Kt, Newton, Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire ; b. ; in chapter 23 of his The Golden Grove Moralized, 1600, he refers to his being, ‘about ten years ago’ ‘a scholer at Westminster’ ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1591/2 ; BA 1595 ; MA 1597 ; BCL 3 Dec 1600 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy, Germany) ; of Tor-y-Coed, Carmarthenshire (acquired on first marriage) ; High Sheriff, Carmarthenshire 1616 ; promoted the colonisation of Newfoundland ; knighted 1628 ; author, Erotopaignon Pius, 2 parts, 1597, 1598 (paraphrases of the Bible in Latin verse), Poematum Libellus, 1598, The Golden Grove Moralized, 1600, The Golden Fleece, 1626, and other publications in prose and verse ; m.1st, early 1600s, Elizabeth, dau. of David ap Robert, Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire ; m.2nd, Anne, dau. of John Christmas, Colchester, Essex ; d. Aug 1641. ODNB.