John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (7 December 1667 – 20 March 1721), of

Trawsgoed Trawsgoed (Welsh for "Crosswood") is both a community and an estate in Ceredigion, Wales. The estate is southeast of Aberystwyth, and has been in the possession of the Vaughan family since 1200.

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, was a

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nobleman.

Biography

The son of Edward Vaughan and grandson of

Sir John Vaughan John Vaughan may refer to: Gentry *John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery (1574/75–1634), Welsh courtier and MP for Carmarthenshire 1601, 1621 *John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery (1639–1713), Governor of Jamaica and President of the Royal Society, M ...

, he was created Baron Fethard and

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, in the

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, on 5 June 1695. He represented

in the

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from 1694 to 1698. He was

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of the Cardiganshire Militia in 1697. Vaughan married his first wife, Lady Malet Wilmot (d. 1709), daughter of

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester embodie ...

, on 18 August 1692. They had six children:Peerages, p. 727 *

John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (c.1695 – 15 January 1741) was a Welsh landowner and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1727 to 1734. Apparently a heavy drinker, who kept several mistresses, he informally separated ...

(c.1695–1741) *

Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (died 19 January 1766), styled Hon. Wilmot Vaughan until 1762, was a Welsh landowner and Irish peer. He inherited his titles and the Trawsgoed estate in Cardiganshire from his elder brother in 1741, but the es ...

(d. 1766) *Hon. Henry Vaughan, died unmarried *Lady Anne Vaughan, married Sir John Prideaux, 6th Baronet *Lady Elizabeth Vaughan *Lady Letitia Vaughan

References

Sources

The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, 1541-1895

National Library of Wales
* Morgan, Gerald, "The Vaughans of Trawsgoed," Gomer, 1997,
The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland
John Debrett, Published 1809 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lisburne, John Vaughan, 1st Viscount 1667 births 1721 deaths Lord-Lieutenants of Cardiganshire Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by William III Whig (British political party) MPs English MPs 1695–1698 Cardigan Militia officers

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