Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Williams, Edward Vaughan, ca. 1798-1875
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
ca. 1798-1875
History
WILLIAMS, SIR EDWARD VAUGHAN, brother of Charles Williams (left 1811, qv); b.; at Winchester Coll. 1808-11; adm. Christmas 1811; KS (Capt. ) 1812; probably the editor of The World at Westminster, a school periodical which appeared from 28 Nov 1815 to 20 May 1816; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1816, adm. pens. 27 May 1816, aged 18, scholar 1817; BA 1820; MA 1823; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jun 1818, called to bar 17 Jun 1823; initially joined Oxford Circuit, later on South Wales and Chester Circuits; Serjeant-at-Law 27 Oct 1846; Puisne Justice, Court of Common Pleas 3 Nov 1846 – end of Hilary Term 1865, when he retired [check date]; knighted 4 Feb 1847; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1865; member, Judicial Committee, Privy Council; a fine scholar, learned lawyer and excellent judge; Busby Trustee 26 May 1854; author, Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, 1832, and other works; m. 5 Sep 1826 Jane Margaret, eighth dau. of Walter Bagot (adm. 1739/40, qv); d. 2 Nov 1875. DNB.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Identifier of related entity
Category of relationship
Type of relationship
Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
GB 2014
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.