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VAVASSEUR, ROBERT, eldest son of James Vavasseur, Knockholt, Kent, silk manufacturer, and Helen, dau. of Rev. Robert Moffat DD, missionary in South Africa for London Missionary Society; b. 4 Jul 1865; adm. 15 Jun 1876 (G); QS 1880; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1884, matr. 10 Oct 1884; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1886, 2nd cl. Lit. Hum. 1888; BA 1888; killed in Mashonaland, South Africa Jun 1896.

VAUX, WILLIAM, son of Edward Vaux, Hackney, Middlesex, and Mary ---; bapt. 12 Aug 1784; adm. 24 Mar 1800 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left Christmas 1802; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Jan 1803; BA 1806; MA 1810; BD 1826; Fellow, Balliol Coll. 1809-16; Select Preacher 1813, 1817, 1842, Bampton Lecturer 1826; ordained; Rector of Long Crichel, Dorset 4 Jul 1815; Rector of Sutton Waldron, Dorset 5 Nov 1816 (disp. to hold with Long Crichel); Rector of Patching, Sussex 10 Sep 1822 - Sep 1834; Rector of West Tarring, Sussex from 31 Mar 1823; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1828; Prebendary of Winchester from 14 Jan 1831; Vicar of Romsey, Hampshire 2 Jan 1834 - 43; Rector of Wanborough, Wilts., 10 Oct 1840-1; Vicar of Burton Stacey, Hampshire, from 15 Apr 1844; m. 1st, 11 Jan 1816 Mary Hankyns, eldest dau. of Martin Wall MD, Lichfield Professor of Clinical Medicine, Oxford; m. 2nd, 10 Sep 1839 Elizabeth Jane, eldest dau. of Rear-Adm. Sir John Wentworth Loring KCB; d. 30 Dec 1844, aged 60.

VAUX, WILLIAM SANDYS WRIGHT, only son of William Vaux (qv), and his first wife; b. 28 Feb 1818; adm. 6 Apr 1831 (Stikeman's); left 1836; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1836; BA 1840; MA 1841; Assistant, Department of Antiquities, British Museum 1841-61; Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals Jan 1861- Oct 1870; catalogued the coin collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford 1871-6; Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, from Nov 1875; Secretary, Royal Society of Literature; President, Numismatic Society of London 1855-74; FSA 2 Apr 1846; FRS 4 Jun 1868; author, Nineveh and Persepolis, 1850, and other publications, largely on the history and antiquities of the Middle East; m. 11 Jul 1861 Louisa, eldest dau. of Francis Rivington, Harley Street, London, publisher; d. 21 Jun 1885. DNB.

VAUX, HENRY EDWARD, eldest son of John Vaux, Bramfield, Herts., and Louisa --- (IGI); nephew of William Vaux (qv); b. 14 Jul 1801; adm. 9 Feb 1815 (G); KS 1816; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1820, but went to Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1822; Craven Scholar 1822; Deputy Assistant Commissary-General 5 Oct 1832; Commissary to troops on Norfolk Island, New South Wales 1832; drowned off the coast of Norfolk Island 4 Mar 1834.

VAUGHAN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS ; a letter from him to Lord Burghley, dated 7 Jan 1572/3, is preserved in the British Library (Lansdowne MS xvi, 37).

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.

VAUGHAN, WILLIAM, eldest son of Richard Vaughan, Tor-y-coed, Llangedeirne, Carmarthenshire, and Shenfield, Essex, barrister, and his second wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir William Appleton, Bart.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1708; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1711, matr. 1711; d. before Jul 1728. [Perhaps d. unm. 1721, check]. [Perhaps bapt. St. Nicholas, Deptford, Kent 21 May 1694 (IGI)]

VAUGHAN, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1729. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Erasmus Vaughan, adm. same month].

VAUGHAN, ROBERT; b.; Min. Can. 1636; KS in 1638 (WAM 34165).

VAUGHAN, RICHARD, of London (“pleb. f. ”); b.; adm.; KS 16 Nov 1610; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1614, matr. 14 Mar 1616/7, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1623; BA 1618; MA 1622; ordained deacon 23 May 1619, priest 11 Jun 1620 (both Oxford).