Richard Vaughan (abt. 1600 - 1686)

Born about 1600 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Altham) Vaughan — married 8 Aug 1637 (to 1650) in Acton, London, England

Descendants

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Biography

Richard Vaughan is Notable.

2nd Earl of Carbery

"Lord Carbery married three times, firstly to Bridget Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd. After Bridget's death, he married Frances Altham, daughter of Sir James Altham, and granddaughter of the judge Sir James Altham, in Acton, London, on 8 August 1637, and they had three sons (Francis, John and Altham) and a daughter. Frances died in 1650 and Carbery married thirdly Lady Alice Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, two years later. The earl died in 1686 and was succeeded in his titles by his second son John. His eldest son Francis was the Member of Parliament for Carmarthen when he predeceased his father in 1667. Carbery's last wife, Alice, survived her husband by three years."^[1]

A painting of Lady Carbery (Frances) and another of her husband was the subject of Episode 203 of the Art Detectives.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ WikipediaWikipedia: Richard Vaughan 2nd Earl of Carbery
2. ↑ Art Detectives episode 203[1]

• Ronald Hutton, ‘Vaughan, Richard, second earl of Carbery (1600?–1686)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 12 Oct 2017

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 58 Vaughan, Richard (1600?-1686) by Daniel Lleufer Thomas