Sir Henry Vaughan the younger (1613 – 26 December 1676), of Derwydd, Llandybie in
Carmarthenshire, was a Welsh
Member of Parliament.
He was the son of
Sir Henry Vaughan the elder, a long-serving member of Parliament and leader of
Royalist forces in Carmarthenshire during the
English Civil War. Sir Henry had acquired the Derwydd estate by marriage to his wife Sage.
Henry the younger also fought on the Royalist side during the Civil War. In April 1645, he was defeated by
Cromwell
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in a minor engagement at
Bampton in the Bush, and he was captured at
Tenby in 1648. After the
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he was knighted (in 1661), served as a
Justice of the Peace
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for Carmarthenshire from 1660 to 1667 and was appointed
High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire for 1661–62. He was a deputy lieutenant for the county from 1660 to 1667 and from 1674 to his death.
He was MP for
Carmarthenshire from 1668 until 1676.
On his death he was buried in Llandybie church and was later succeeded at Derwydd by his nephew,
Richard Vaughan.
References
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* Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
1613 births
1676 deaths
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales
Cavaliers
English MPs 1661–1679
High Sheriffs of Carmarthenshire
Deputy Lieutenants of Carmarthenshire
17th-century Welsh politicians
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