Griffith Vaughan Explained

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

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]

Notes and References

1. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1533-1549 Vachell-Vyner Pages 1533-1549 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
2. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|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]
3. Le Neve. John. Hardy. Sir Thomas Duffus. John Le Neve. Thomas Duffus Hardy. Archdeacons of Salop. Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.1_body_of_work.djvu/615. Chapter. 1854. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1. 1854. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 573–4. 615.