VAUGHAN, Richard (c. 1600-86) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1600, 1st s. of Sir John Vaughan^‡, earl of Carbery [I], and 1st w. Margaret, da. of Sir Gelly Meyrick^‡. educ. travelled abroad (Spain) 1622–3; G. Inn 1638. m. (1) by ?1626, Bridget (d.1636), da. of Thomas Lloyd of Llanllyr, Card. 2s. d. v.p.; (2) 8 Aug. 1637, Frances (c.1621–50), da. of Sir James Altham of Oxhey, Herts. 3s. (2 v.p.), 6da. (4 d.v.p.); (3) July 1652 (with £6,000), Alice ( 1689), da. of John Egerton^†, earl of Bridgwater, 1s. d.v.p. KB 1 Feb. 1626. d. 3 June 1686; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 37; Morrice, Ent’ring Bk. iii. 160. will 10 Dec. 1639, pr. 10 May 1688. TNA, PROB 11/391.

Offices Held

Mbr., council in the Marches 1645; ?v.-pres., Wales 1645; ld. pres., council in the Marches 1661 – 72; PC 1661 – 79.

Custos rot., Card. 1630 – 49, 1669 – d., Carm. 1644 – 49, 1660 – d., Pemb. 1643 – 46; bailiff, Kidwelly and Carreg Cennen castles, Carm. 1630–4 (jt.) 1634–?d. (sole); dep. lt. Carm. and Card. by 1637 – 42; ld. lt. Wales and the Marches 1660 – 72; constable, Radnor Castle 1660–?d., Ludlow Castle, Salop 1665; chamberlain and steward of Brecon, Brec. 1660–d.; CSP Dom. 1660–1, p. 367. kpr. king’s game, Wales and the Marches 1661. CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 182.

Col. ft. (roy.) 1642 – 43; capt. gen. (roy.), Wales, the Marches, and Chester 1643; lt. gen. (roy.), Carm., Pemb. and Card. 1643 – 45; gov. Milford Haven, Pemb. 1643.

Parlimentarian

VAUGHAN, Richard I (c.1600-1686), of Golden Grove, Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carm. and ?Fleet Street, St. Dunstan-in-the-West, London.

Likenesses

oil on canvas, attrib. to William Dobson/Adriaen Hanneman, c.1670, Carmarthenshire County Museum.

Author

Eagles, Robin

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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