John Vaughan (by 1512 – 25 June 1577) was an English politician.
Vaughan was a Member of the Parliament of England for Herefordshire in 1542, Horsham in 1547, Surrey in 1547, Petersfield in March 1553, April 1554 and November 1554, Bletchingley in 1555, Hedon in 1559, Northumberland in 1563, Dartmouth in 1571 and Grantham in 1572.
Family
Vaughan was a younger son of Thomas Vaughan of Porthaml in Breconshire and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Miles alias Parry of Bacton, Herefordshire. He was a nephew of the courtier Blanche Parry. Some elements of the 16th-century manor house survive at Great Porthamel Farm.
He married Anne Pickering, widow of Sir Francis Weston and Sir Henry Knyvet. Their children included: Francis Vaughan. Frances Vaughan, a maid of honour at the court of Elizabeth I in 1578 when her clothes were made by the Queen's tailor Walter Fyshe.Ann Rosalind Jones & Peter Stallybrass, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge, 2000), p. 25: Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1988), p. 100. She married Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh and was the chief mourner at Blanche Parry's funeral in 1590.Anna Whitelock, Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court (Bloomsbury, 2013), p. 270: HMC Manuscripts of the Earl of Salisbury, vol. 4 (London, 1899), p. 41. Blanche Parry was godmother to her daughters Frances and Elizabeth Burgh.Notes & Queries, 3rd S. VII (13 May 1865), p. 387. As a widow, in November 1613, she was given an allowance of £500 and went to join the household of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia at Heidelberg.Norman McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 489.
References
External links VAUGHAN family, of Porthaml, parish of Talgarth, Brecknock: Dictionary of Welsh Biography