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William Vaughan (other)
William Vaughan may refer to: *William Vaughan (philanthropist) (died 1580), English landowner, farmer and philanthropist *Sir William Vaughan (writer) (1575–1641), Welsh writer and colonial investor *Sir William Vaughan (Royalist) (died 1649), English royalist commander in the First English Civil War *William Gwyn Vaughan (1680s–1753), Welsh politician *William Vaughan (MP) (c. 1707–1775), Member of Parliament for and Lord Lieutenant of Merioneth *William Vaughan (merchant) (1752–1850), English West India merchant and author * William Vaughan (bishop) (1814–1902), Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth *William Wirt Vaughan (1831–1878), member of the United States House of Representatives *William Wyamar Vaughan (1865–1938), British educationalist *William Vaughan (footballer) (1898 – 1976), English footballer *William E. Vaughan (1915–1977), American columnist and author *William Vaughan (art historian) (fl. 1972–2015), British art historian *William Edward Vaughan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (philanthropist)
William Vaughan (died c. May 1580) was an English landowner, farmer and philanthropist who lived in the mid-16th century in the Dartford and Erith area of north-west Kent. He was one of the yeoman to King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, but is remembered today mainly for his role in the founding of Dartford Grammar School. Family connections Nothing seems to be known about his parentage or early years, although he had a cousin, James Vaughan who lived in Swanscombe. In his will William Vaughan left bequests to the poor of the parishes of Dartford (40/-); Stone (13/4d) and Erith (20/-); this may indicate his principal area of interest although he also held land at Tonbridge. There seems to be no evidence of Vaughan's connection to Dartford before 1536. At that time he was said to be one of King Henry VIII's gentlemen of the wardrobe when he obtained a grant of the manor of Bignors. This manor, also known as Portbridge, had long been an asset of the Sisters of the Order of St. Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (writer)
Sir William Vaughan (c. 1575August 1641) was a Welsh writer in English and Latin. He promoted colonization in Newfoundland, but with mixed success. Early life He was the son of Walter Vaughan (died 1598) and was born at Golden Grove (Gelli Aur), Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire, Wales—the estate of his father, through whom he was descended from an ancient prince of Powys. He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1572−1634) and Henry Vaughan (1587−1659), a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War. William was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 4 February 1592, and graduated BA on 1 March 1595, MA on 16 November 1597. He supplicated for the law degree of BCL on 3 December 1600, but before taking its examination he went abroad, travelled in France and Italy, and visited Vienna, where he proceeded LlD, being incorporated at Oxford on 23 June 1605. Newfoundland In 1616 he bought a grant of land, the southern Avalon Peninsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (Royalist)
Sir William Vaughan (died 1649) was a cavalry officer in the armies of Charles I of England. Initially serving in Ireland during the Confederate Wars, the outbreak of the First English Civil War led to him being sent to England in 1644, at the head of an Anglo-Irish cavalry regiment, to reinforce the Royalist army. Appointed General of Horse for the area of Wales and the Marches, he was involved in a large number of battles and skirmishes in the north and west, including the defeat of the last Royalist field army at Stow, where he was wounded but escaped capture. Vaughan subsequently rejoined Royalist forces in Ireland, where he was killed at the Battle of Rathmines. Life Almost nothing is known of Vaughan's early life, though he is often supposed to have been a member of one of the several landowning Vaughan families of Shropshire or Herefordshire. He is usually identified as the William Vaughan who was admitted to Shrewsbury School in 1596, based on a note by a later schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gwyn Vaughan
William Gwyn Vaughan (c. 1681–1753) of Trebarried, Breconshire, was a Welsh Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1734. Vaughan was the second son of Gwyn Vaughan of Trebarried and his wife Mary Lucy, daughter of William Lucy, Bishop of St David's. In 1694, he succeeded his brother Thomas. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 12 May 1698, aged 16. He married Frances Vaughan, daughter of John Vaughan of Hergest Vaughan was returned as a Tory Member of Parliament for Breconshire at a by-election on 30 August 1721. He was elected for Breconshire again in a contest at the 1722 general election, and was returned unopposed in 1727. He spoke against the Government in 1730 on the Hessians and in 1733 on the army estimates, and voted in 1733 against the Excise Bill The Excise Bill of 1733 was a proposal by the British government of Robert Walpole to impose an excise tax on a variety of products. This would have allowed Customs officers to search ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (MP)
William Vaughan (c. 1707–12 April 1775) of Corsygedol, Merioneth was a Welsh politician. He was the eldest son of Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol and educated at Chester and Mortlake schools and St John's College, Cambridge (1726). He succeeded his father in 1734. Evan Lloyd Vaughan was his younger brother. He was the Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire 1762–1775, Custos Rotulorum of Merionethshire 1731–1775 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Merionethshire , HQ= Dolgellau , Government= Merionethshire County Council (1889-1974) , Origin= , Status= , Start= 1284 , End= , Code= MER , CodeName= ... from 1734 to 1768. He married his cousin Catherine, the daughter and coheiress of Hugh Nanney, M.P., of Nannau, Merioneth, with whom he had a daughter who predeceased him. He was succeeded by his brother Evan. References * 1775 deaths Alumni of St John's Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (merchant)
William Vaughan (1752–1850) was an English West India merchant and author. Life Born on 22 September 1752, he was the second son of Samuel Vaughan, a merchant in London and Jamaica, by his wife Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Hallowell of Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Vaughan was his elder brother. He was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney and Warrington Academy. After leaving school Vaughan entered his father's business, and became prominent in commerce. In April 1782 Vaughan travelled to Amsterdam to meet John Adams, as part of the negotiations to end the American War of Independence. In 1783 he was elected a director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, and continued in it, as director, sub-governor, and governor, until 1829. During the Nore mutiny in 1797, Vaughan formed one of the committees of London merchants convened to meet at the Royal Exchange to deal with it. He independently drew up a short address to the seamen which was put in circulation b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (bishop)
William Joseph Vaughan (14 February 1814– 25 October 1902) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church as the second bishop of Plymouth. He was born on 14 February 1814 in London, England, the second son of William Vaughan, of an old ''recusant'' (Roman Catholic) family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, Herefordshire. Educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and St. Acheul, in France, he was ordained a priest on 10 March 1838 at Prior Park. In 1845 he was appointed president of Prior Park College, but was moved to Clifton Cathedral three years later. He was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Plymouth on 10 July 1855, a post he held until his death. It is to him that the diocese of Plymouth owes its first organisation and consolidation. In 1862 he was named assistant at the Pontifical throne. The 60th Anniversary of his priesthood was celebrated in March 1898, when he received a congratulatory letter from Pope Leo XIII. His health failing, he moved i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wirt Vaughan
William Wirt Vaughan (July 2, 1831 – August 19, 1878) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district of Tennessee. Biography Vaughan was born on July 2, 1831 in LaGuardo (now Martha), Tennessee in Wilson County. He attended the common schools and graduated from Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and commenced practice in Brownsville, Tennessee. Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress, Vaughan served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873, but was not a successful candidate for re-election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Brownsville and became one of the prime movers in the building of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad branch from Brownsville to Newbern. He was president of the system at the time of his death. He became a candidate for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress. Death On August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wyamar Vaughan
William Wyamar Vaughan (25 February 1865 - 4 February 1938) was a British educationalist. Vaughan was the son of Sir Henry Halford Vaughan, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. His mother Adeline Maria Jackson was Julia Stephen's older sister making him a maternal first cousin to Virginia Woolf. In 1898 he married Margaret Symonds, daughter of John Addington Symonds; they had two sons and a daughter. Their daughter was noted physiologist, Dame Janet Vaughan. Margaret Vaughan died in 1925. In 1929 William Vaughan married Elizabeth Geldard. Vaughan was educated at Rugby, New College, Oxford and the University of Paris. Vaughan was a master of Clifton College 1890-1904 before being appointed Headmaster of Giggleswick School (1904–1910), Wellington College (1910–1921) and Rugby School (1921–1931). He retired in 1931. He fell and broke his leg while visiting the Taj Mahal in December 1937 during the Indian Science Congress Indian Science Congress Association(ISCA) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (footballer)
William Vaughan (18 December 1898 – 1976) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left. He made appearances in the English Football League for Bristol Rovers, Wrexham, Exeter City, Merthyr Town and Luton Town. He also was a journeyman in football, playing for a total of 17 clubs across England and Wales throughout his 15-year career. References 1898 births 1976 deaths Welsh men's footballers Men's association football defenders English Football League players Willenhall F.C. players Bristol Rovers F.C. players Stafford Rangers F.C. players Merthyr Town F.C. players Shrewsbury Town F.C. players Wrexham A.F.C. players Bilston Town F.C. players Burton Town F.C. players Exeter City F.C. players Luton Town F.C. players Brierley Hill Alliance F.C. players Gresley Rovers F.C. players Bloxwich Strollers F.C. players Cheltenham Town F.C. players Walsall Wood F.C. players Winsford United F.C. players People from Willenhall Sportspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William E
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vaughan (art Historian)
William Vaughan is a British art historian and has been Emeritus Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London since 2003. He is also a printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ..., and regularly exhibits in London and Bristol under the name Will Vaughan. He is Chair of the Bruton Art Society. Selected publications *''Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840: Romantic landscape painting in Dresden: (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery London 6 September-16 October 1972)'', Tate Gallery, London, 1972. *''Romantic Art'', Thames & Hudson, London, 1978. *''German Romanticism and English Art'', Yale, 1979. *''Art and the natural world in nineteenth-century Britain: Three essays (The Franklin D. Murphy lectures)'', Spencer Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
