Sir John Vaughan PC (11 February 1768 - 25 September 1839) was an English judge. Vaughan was born at Leicester, the third but second surviving son of Dr. James Vaughan a physician at Leicester, and his wife, Hester née Smalley. He was called to the bar in June 1791. In 1816 he became King's Serjeant and in 1827 he became

Baron of the Exchequer The Barons of the Exchequer, or ''barones scaccarii'', were the judges of the English court known as the Exchequer of Pleas. The Barons consisted of a Chief Baron of the Exchequer and several puisne (''inferior'') barons. When Robert Shute was a ...

. He was knighted on 24 November 1828. In 1834 he became Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and was made a Privy Councillor. Vaughan died at Eastbury Lodge, near Watford, Hertfordshire at the age of 71. Vaughan married firstly Hon. Augusta St John, daughter of Henry Beauchamp St John, 13th Baron St John on 20 December 1803. They had six children but she died on 30 January 1813. He married secondly Lady Louisa St John, widow of

St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso PC FRS (22 August 1759 – 15 October 1817) was an English politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 until 1806 when he inherited a peerage. St John was born at Woodford, North ...

and daughter of

Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (December 1747 – 26 February 1821) was an administrator in India with the East India Company and subsequently a member of the British House of Commons representing first Evesham and then Bramber. Biograph ...

on 4 August 1823 and had a son and daughter. Vaughan and his first wife had issue, including a son Sir (Henry) Halford Vaughan (27 August 1811 – 19 April 1885), Regius Professor of History at Oxford University 1848-1858 and father of William Wyamar Vaughan (1865-4 February 1938) a British educationalist. His daughters were Augusta Vaughan (5 May 1805 - 12 August 1880) and Barbara Vaughan (26 July 1806 - 24 June 1869) who married her cousin

Sir Henry Halford, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Halford, 2nd Baronet (1797 – 22 May 1868) was an English Tory and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1857. Halford was the son of Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet and his wife Hon. Elizabeth Barba ...

.Halford funerary monuments: A6 - Dame Barbara Halford
/ref> Vaughan and his second wife had issue Emily Vaughan who married

Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (16 December 1819 – 7 April 1903) was an English landowner and gardener based at Lamport Hall, Northampton. He is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he int ...

and Rev. Charles Lyndhurst Vaughan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan, John 1768 births 1839 deaths Knights Bachelor Barons of the Exchequer Justices of the Common Pleas Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom