Griffith Vaughan

The Venerable Griffith Vaughan (1656-1726) was an English Anglican clergyman.

For the medieval knight, see Gruffudd Vychan.


A son of Edmund Vaughan, of Pisford, Northamptonshire, plebeian, in 1668 he became a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 3 May, 1672, aged 16, and graduated B.A. in 1676. In 1681, he incorporated at Cambridge and graduated M.A. from Pembroke College, Cambridge. [1][2] He held livings at Coppenhall, and Hinstock; and was Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1681 until his death.[3]

References
  1. Vachell-Vyner Pages 1533-1549 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
  2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, 1927 p294
  3. Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Salop  (Chapter). Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1 (1854 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 573–4  – via Wikisource.


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