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{{Short description|English judge, born 1768}}
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'''Sir John Vaughan''' [[Privy Councillor|PC]]  (11 February 1768 – 25 September 1839) was an English judge.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fH5da6LvgnIC&pg=PA648 "The Rt. Hon. Mr. Justice Vaughan"], ''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'', Vol. XII (new series), December 1839, p. 648.</ref>
Vaughan  was born at Leicester, the third but second surviving son of Dr. James Vaughan a physician at Leicester, and his wife, Hester née Smalley.<ref>[http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/wistow/monumentalinscriptionssectionain.html Halford family monuments: A8 - James Vaughan M.D. and Hester Vaughan]. Full date of death retrieved 12 March 2009.</ref> He was educated at [[The Queen's College, Oxford]] and [[Lincoln's Inn]],<ref>{{alox2|title=Vaughan, (Sir) John}}</ref> and was called to the bar in June 1791. In 1816 he became King's Serjeant and in 1827 he became [[Baron of the Exchequer]]. He was knighted on 24 November 1828.  In 1834 he became [[Justice of the Court of Common Pleas]] and was made a Privy Councillor.<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=056-dg24_1&cid=0#0  National Archives - Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office   Halford MSS (DG24/1 - DG24/790)]</ref>
Vaughan died at Eastbury Lodge, near Watford, Hertfordshire at the age of 71.
Vaughan married firstly Hon. Augusta St John, daughter of [[Henry St John, 13th Baron St John of Bletso|Henry Beauchamp St John, 13th Baron St John]] on 20 December 1803. They had six children but she  died on 30 January 1813. He married secondly Lady Louisa St John, widow of [[St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso]] and daughter of [[Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet]] on 4 August 1823 and had a son and daughter.<ref>[[John Debrett]], [[William Courthope (officer of arms)|William Courthope]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=DUcRAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA349 ''Debrett's Baronetage of England: with alphabetical lists of such baronetcies'']</ref>
Vaughan and his first wife had issue, including a son [[Henry Halford Vaughan|Sir (Henry) Halford Vaughan]] (27 August 1811 – 19 April 1885), [[Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)|Regius Professor of History at Oxford University]] 1848–1858<ref>He used his middle name, according to his granddaughter's [http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/heritage/munksroll/munk_details.asp?ID=4547 RCP obituary]{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and  father of [[William Wyamar Vaughan]] (1865 – 4 February 1938) a British educationalist. His daughters were Augusta Vaughan (5 May 1805 – 12 August 1880)<ref>[http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/wistow/monumentalinscriptionssectionain.html Halford funerary monuments: A10 - Augusta Vaughan]</ref> and Barbara Vaughan (26 July 1806 – 24 June 1869) who married her cousin [[Sir Henry Halford, 2nd Baronet]].<ref>[http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/wistow/monumentalinscriptionssectionain.html Halford funerary monuments: A6 - Dame Barbara Halford]</ref> Vaughan and his second wife had issue Emily Vaughan who married [[Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet]] and Rev. Charles Lyndhurst Vaughan.
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