VAUGHAN, Richard (?1655-1724), of Derwydd, Carm.

Vaughan, who came of a junior branch of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, the leading Whig family in Carmarthenshire, represented Carmarthen for nearly 40 years. Though made a Welsh judge in 1715, he was absent from the division on the septennial bill in 1716, and voted against the Government on the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and on the peerage bill in 1719. He died 27 Oct. 1724, his estates going to his niece, the wife of John Vaughan.