Sir
John
Vaughan
PC
Born about [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Dorothy (Herbert) Vaughan
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Sidney (Vaughan) Hamilton and Barbara (Vaughan) Latham
Died about
at about age 81
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Sir John Vaughan was Governor of Londonderry for many years. On 19 February 1611, John Vaughan received a grant of 1000 acres and the free fishing of Lough Swilly. A further grant of 1000 acres was obtained, and sold on to John Wray before Pynnar's Survey. Sir John Vaughan was knighted in 1616, made a member of the Privy Council for Ireland, and Governor of Londonderry.
Sir John Vaughan apparently married a daughter of Sir Robert Sydney, 1st Earl of Leicester. Sydney Vaughan, daughter of Sir John Vaughan, married Sir Frederick Hamilton, a member of the Privy Council of both James I and Charles I.
Notes
Brother of Avice., Henry and James.
Sources
- *Great Parchment Book
- Notes & Queries (1908)
- THE FAMILY HISTORY OF HART OF DONEGAL (1907), by Henry Travers Hart
- Burke's Peerage (1832)
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