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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.
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2024.
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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.