Researching John Vaughan
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Vaughan on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Vaughan and the Vaughan Family History
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Some Famous People called John Vaughan
John Vaughan (plant scientist)
John Griffith Vaughan (5 May 1926 – 17 May 2005) was a Welsh food scientist. He was an expert in seed science, whose work linked the fields of botany and nutrition.
During nearly 40 years at the University of London, Vaughan pioneered new techniques for the study of seed proteins, became the leading expert on the structure and composition of oilseeds such as oilseed rape, and was widely consulted by industry. His expertise in identifying plant parts in animal and human foods was much sought after by flour millers and other food processors.
Source: John Vaughan (plant scientist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Vaughan (ironmaster)
John Vaughan, known as Jacky, born in Worcester on "St Thomas' Day" in 1799, the son of Welsh parents. He worked his way up the iron industry, becoming an ironmaster and co-founder of the largest of all the Victorian iron and steel companies, Bolckow Vaughan. Where Henry Bolckow provided the investment and business expertise, Vaughan contributed technical knowledge, in a long-lasting and successful partnership that transformed Middlesbrough from a small town to the centre of ironmaking in Britain.
Vaughan is best known for his discovery of ironstone in the Cleveland Hills, on an exploratory walk with his mining engineer, John Marley in June 1850.
Source: John Vaughan (ironmaster), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Vaughan (puisne judge)
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. 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 and daughter of Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet 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. Vaughan and his second wife had issue Emily Vaughan who married Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet and Rev. Charles Lyndhurst Vaughan.
Source: John Vaughan (puisne judge), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Vaughan (Australian politician)
John Howard Vaughan CBE (14 November 1879 – 21 August 1955) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1912 to 1918, representing the United Labor Party (1912-1917) and the National Party (1917-1918). He served as the Attorney-General of South Australia from 1915 to 1917.
In the 1917 Labor split, Vaughan was expelled along with his brother, Premier Crawford Vaughan, and joined the new National Party. Upon the defeat of the Vaughan ministry in July 1917, Vaughan did not nominate for a position in the new coalition ministry of Archibald Peake, and enlisted to serve in World War I. He was controversially opposed at the 1918 election while away on active service, and being unable to campaign was defeated by Labor candidate Tom Gluyas.
Vaughan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1932.
Source: John Vaughan (Australian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Vaughan (wine merchant)
John Vaughan (15 January 1756 – 30 December 1841) was a wine merchant, philanthropist, and long-time treasurer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society. A native of England, Vaughan settled in Philadelphia in 1782, becoming a respected citizen of the city, and working for literary, scientific and benevolent causes. During five decades of service to the Society, Vaughan was instrumental in building its library collection and introducing many scientists and historians to each other through his letters and Sunday breakfasts.
Source: John Vaughan (wine merchant), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Vaughan
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