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===[[name::Robert]] [[name::VAUGHAN]] [[date of birth::1591;1592|1591/2]]-[[date of death::1667]]===

====Biographical Note====
Of [[location::Hengwrt, Merioneth]]; son of [[family::Hywel Fuchan ap Gruffydd ap Hywel]] (d.1639), of [[location::Gwengraig]], near [[location::Dolgellau]]. Matriculated [[education::Oriel College, Oxford]] but did not graduate. Married [[family::Catherine Vaughan|Catherine]] (1594-1663), daughter of [[associates::Griffith Nanney]], with whom he had eight children. An [[occupation::antiquary]], he [[translator::translated]] historical works and is the author of [[book title::''British Antiquities Revived'']] ([[date of publication::1662]]).

====Books====
Assembled a significant collection of early [[language::Welsh]] [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] which included the oldest manuscripts of the laws of Wales, of Arthurian and other [[subject::literature|romances]], and of the holy grail, as well as other historical, poetic and theological works. Many of his manuscripts are now in [[present repository::the National Library of Wales]]; his printed books were dispersed in the 19th century and earlier.

====Sources====
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*Evans, Mihail Dafydd. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28141 "Vaughan, Robert Powell (1591/2–1667), antiquary."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
*Huws, D. Robert Vaughan, in W. Baker (ed), ''Pre-19th century British book collectors'', 1999, 365-72.
*Lloyd, N. Meredith Lloyd, ''Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society'', 11 (1975-6), 133-92.  
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