William Vaughan may refer to: * William Vaughan (philanthropist) (died 1580), English landowner, farmer and philanthropist *Sir

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), ...

(1575–1641), Welsh writer and colonial investor *Sir

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 ...

(died 1649), English royalist commander in the First English Civil War * William Gwyn Vaughan (1680s–1753), Welsh politician *

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 ...

(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) 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 Wil ...

(1814–1902), Roman Catholic Bishop of Plymouth * William Wirt Vaughan (1831–1878), member of the United States House of Representatives *

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 si ...

(1865–1938), British educationalist * William Vaughan (footballer) (1898 – 1976), English footballer * William E. Vaughan (1915–1977), American columnist and author *

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, and regularly exhibits in London and Bristol Bristol () is a ci ...

(fl. 1972–2015), British art historian * William Edward Vaughan (fl. 1984–2013), Irish historian

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