Maurice Vaughan ca.1660-1722

Maurice VAUGHAN ca.1660-1722

Biographical Note

Born in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, son of Howell Vaughan, Esq. Educated at Eton before BA St John's College, Cambridge 1680/1, MA 1684 and fellow 1685-1694. Rector of Yelling, Huntingdonshire 1692, prebend of Lichfield from the same year, and prebend of Windsor from 1695. He held all three positions until his death.

Books

Vaughan's will makes no mention of his books, which were sold at retail sale in London beginning 23 October 1722. Advertisements in the Post Boy describe the sale's contents as being 'a choice Collection of Books in most Faculties and Languages, particularly History relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Parliamentary Affairs, Law, Common, Civil, and Canon; Physick and Surgery, Mathematicks, Architecture, Poetry, Lives and Memoirs, Husbandry and Trade, Voyages and Travels, Divinity, Philology, Classicks... Dictionaries, Lexicons, Grammars, &c. in English, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and French... Also a Collection of valuable Sermons, Tracts, and Plays, bound and stitcht; together with several Law Manuscripts and others, some written on Vellum finely illuminated'.

Sources

• Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
• Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.
• Bibliothecarum theologi, juris-consulti, & medici, catalogus: being a catalogue of the valuable part of the libraries of the reverend Mr. Maurice Vaughan, late Prebend of Windsor; of a Counsellor at Law; and of a physician deceas'd, [London, 1722], ESTC T31449.
• Will of Maurice Vaughan, Cannon of the Royal Chapel of Windsor, The National Archives PROB 11/586/51