VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec.

Vaughan was returned as a Tory in 1721, when his name was sent to the Pretender as a probable supporter in the event of a rising.Stuart mss 65/16. A list of payments totalling £2,000 to Members of Parliament, apparently prepared by Sunderland for George I about this time, contains the item: ‘à M. Vaughan, beaufrère de M. Morgan de Tredegar, £200’. He spoke against the Government on the Hessians in 1730,Knatchbull Diary, 5 Feb. 1730. and on the army estimates, 15 Feb. 1733, voting against the excise bill that year and for the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. Defeated in 1734 by an opposition Whig, he did not stand again. He died 31 Aug. 1753.