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Richard Vaughan (novelist)
Richard Vaughan may refer to: Politicians * Richard Vaughan (of Corsygedol) (died 1636), Welsh MP for Merioneth in 1628 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery (died 1686), Welsh soldier, peer and politician * Richard Vaughan (judge) (c. 1655–1724), Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen * Richard Vaughan (MP for Bristol), see Bristol * Richard Vaughan (died 1734) (c. 1665–1734), Welsh politician Sports * Richard Vaughan (badminton) (born 1978), British badminton player * Richard Vaughan (cricketer) (1908–1966), English cricketer * Richard Vaughan (ice hockey), American college ice hockey coach * Slim Vaughan (Richard Edward Vaughan, 1910–1992), American baseball player Others * Richard Vaughan (bishop) (1550–1607), bishop of Chester, 1597–1604 * Richard Vaughan (robotics) Richard Vaughan (born 28 July 1971) is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (of Corsygedol)
Robert Vaughan (by 1606 - 19 July 1636) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. Vaughan was the son of William Vaughan of Plas-hen and his wife Ann, daughter and heir of Richard Vaughan of Talhenbont, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. In 1628, he was elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Vaughan was so corpulent and bulky that it was necessary to open the large door of the House of Commons to let him in "which was seldom opened except when the Usher of the Black Rod summoned the members to appear before the House of Lords. When the door was opened the Lords used to whisper that Black Rod or the Welsh Mayor was coming." Vaughan died at Corsygedol in 1636 of complications of an operation to reduce his girth. He was aged about 30 at the time and had been serving as Sheriff of Merioneth. He had married, by a settlement dated 12 April 1616, Elizabeth Owen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl Of Carbery
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery KB, PC (c. 1600 – 1686), styled The Honourable from 1621 until 1628 and then Lord Vaughan until 1634, was a Welsh soldier, peer and politician. Born the son of a Welsh noble with an Irish peerage, Vaughan initially entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Carmarthenshire in 1624. He held the seat until 1629, when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament until 1640. Knighted in 1626, he appears to have little interest in politics, and after inheriting the estates and titles of his father in 1634, retired to the life of a country gentleman in South Wales. The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 disturbed his peace, and after being courted by both King and Parliament, he declared as a Royalist. He raised troops for the king, and took control of the Southern Welsh counties on behalf of the Crown, for which he was rewarded with titles and responsibilities. Carbery's successes were shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (judge)
Richard Vaughan MP (c. 1655–October 1724) of Derwydd, Carmarthenshire was a Welsh lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for nearly 40 years from 1685 to 1724. Vaughan was the eldest son of John Vaughan of Court Derllys and his wife Rachel Vaughan, daughter of Sir Henry Vaughan of Derwydd, Carmarthenshire. He matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford 23 May 1672, aged 16. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1673, was called to the bar in 1680 and made a bencher in 1706. He succeeded his uncle Sir Henry Vaughan, to Derwydd Mansion, near Llandybie in 1676. Vaughan was appointed Recorder of Carmarthenshire for 1683-86 and 1688-1722 and a circuit judge on the Carmarthenshire circuit on 1715, serving as such until his death. Vaughan was elected Member of Parliament for Carmarthen for 1685–87 and 1689 to his death in 1724. His monument in Carmarthen Parish Church was sculpted by William Palmer.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (MP For Bristol)
Richard Vaughan may refer to: Politicians * Richard Vaughan (of Corsygedol) (died 1636), Welsh MP for Merioneth in 1628 * Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery (died 1686), Welsh soldier, peer and politician * Richard Vaughan (judge) (c. 1655–1724), Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen * Richard Vaughan (MP for Bristol), see Bristol * Richard Vaughan (died 1734) (c. 1665–1734), Welsh politician Sports * Richard Vaughan (badminton) (born 1978), British badminton player * Richard Vaughan (cricketer) (1908–1966), English cricketer * Richard Vaughan (ice hockey), American college ice hockey coach * Slim Vaughan (Richard Edward Vaughan, 1910–1992), American baseball player Others * Richard Vaughan (bishop) Richard Vaughan (c.1550 – 30 March 1607) was a Welsh bishop of the Church of England. Life His father was Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1574, ... (1550–1607), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885. Boundaries The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the 19th and the 20th centuries. The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the 13th century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat. From the 1885 United Kingdom general election the city was divided into four single member seats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (died 1734)
Richard Vaughan (c. 1665–1734) was a Tory Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons for 33 years from 1701 to 1734. Vaughan was the son of William Vaughan of Corsygedol and his wife Anne Nanney, daughter of Griffith Nanney of Nannau Hall, Llanfachreth, Merioneth. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1686. In 1697 he inherited the estate at Corsygedol on the death of his brother. He was High Sheriff of Merionethshire in 1697–8 and High Sheriff of Carnarvonshire in 1699–1700. He married Margaret Lloyd, daughter of Sir Evan Lloyd of Bodidris, Denbighshire on 10 February 1701. Vaughan was elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth In a by election on 29 April 1701 on the death of Hugh Nanney. He was a lifelong Tory, and did not vote in any of the recorded divisions after 1715. He was Constable of Harlech Castle from 1704 to 1716. Vaughan appears to have dedicated much of his later life to supervising extensive improvements to his house and estate. He died 28 March 1734 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (badminton)
Richard Vaughan (born 16 April 1978) is a Welsh and British badminton player from Llanbradach, Caerphilly, Wales. Vaughan was the Chief Executive of Badminton Ireland between 2011 - 2015. In 2014 Vaughan joined the board of Badminton Europe (a member of the Badminton World Federation). He chairs the high-performance commission, which has overseen the development of a World Training Centre in Denmark. Between 2015-2020 Vaughan was the CEO of Squash Australia, where he oversaw the sport rebranding, topping the medal table at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. A new National Training Centre was opened on the Gold Coast in late 2018. In 2019, Vaughan established the 'Friends of Squash' Parliament competition with the current Sports Minister Anika Wells and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. In late 2020 Vaughan joined the board at Equestrian Australia as a Non-Executive Director, Chairing the Finance Committee. Education Vaughan holds an MBA from Leicester University and an MA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (cricketer)
Richard Thomas Vaughan (28 May 1908 – 1 April 1966) was an English cricketer who played for Berkshire and Wiltshire, as a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. In later life he was a farmer and magistrate. The son of Thomas Hallowes Vaughan and Elsie Vaughan, he was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was educated at Repton School, where his house and headmaster was the future Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher. Vaughan proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a Blue in football for three consecutive years. He captained the university football team during this time. He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Leicestershire in 1928. In this match, he was dismissed for 3 runs in the Cambridge first innings by Ewart Astill; he was not required to bat in their second innings. He played a second and final first-class match for the university in the same season, against Sussex, where he was dismissed for a duck by Arthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (ice Hockey)
Richard Farries Vaughan (September 27, 1906 – June 14, 1987) was an American ice hockey player and head coach, best known for his long tenure at Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey, Princeton Tigers. Career Vaughan played with the Yale Bulldogs men's ice hockey, Yale Bulldogs university team between 1926–1928. From 1929–1935 he was an assistant coach with the Yale Bulldogs. Vaughan began coaching Princeton Tigers ice hockey team in 1935 and promptly raised the level of completion from a poor outing the previous year. The Tigers could not sustain the success and oscillated around the .500 mark for the next seven years. While the program was closed for two years during World War II, Vaughan was retained as head coach and resumed his work once the team returned to action in January 1946 (some sources list no coach for that abbreviated year). The post-war Tigers were not quite as good as their earlier iterations: Vaughan's squads hovered just below an even record for much of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Vaughan
Richard Edward "Slim" Vaughan (April 22, 1910 – July 3, 1992) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1930s. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Vaughan played for the Newark Dodgers Newark most commonly refers to: * Newark, New Jersey, city in the United States * Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey; a major air hub in the New York metropolitan area Newark may also refer to: Places Canada * Niagara-on-th ... in 1934. In nine recorded games on the mound, he posted a 7.49 ERA over 33.2 innings. Vaughan died in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1992 at age 82. References External links anSeamheads 1910 births 1992 deaths Newark Dodgers players Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Richmond, Virginia 20th-century African-American sportspeople {{negro-league-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (bishop)
Richard Vaughan (c.1550 – 30 March 1607) was a Welsh bishop of the Church of England. Life His father was Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1574, MA in 1577, and DD in 1589. He became chaplain to John Aylmer, Bishop of London, who is said to have been a relative. Vaughan assisted William Morgan in his translation of the Bible into Welsh, published in 1588. He was rector of Chipping Ongar from 1578 to 1580, and of Little Canfield in 1580; Archdeacon of Middlesex in 1588; rector of Great Dunmow and Moreton in 1592, and of Stanford Rivers in 1594. He became Bishop of Bangor in 1595, Bishop of Chester in 1597, was Bishop of London from 1604 to 1607. His views were Calvinist, and he signed and is presumed to have had input into the ''Lambeth Articles'' of 1595. He licensed in 1606 the translation of the work ''Institutiones Theologicae'' of the Reformed theologian Guillaume Du B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vaughan (robotics)
Richard Vaughan (born 28 July 1971) is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... Since 2018, Vaughan is on leave from SFU and is working at Apple. He is the founder and director of the SFU Autonomy Laboratory. In 1998, Vaughan demonstrated the first robot to interact with animals and in 2000 co-founded the Player Project, a robot control and simulation system. References 1971 births Living people Canadian roboticists {{Canada-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
