Vaughan Nash Explained

Vaughan Nash
Office:Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
Term Start:1908
Term End:1911
Primeminister:H. H. Asquith
Predecessor:Arthur Ponsonby
Successor:Maurice Bonham-Carter
Birth Name:Vaughan Robinson Nash
Birth Date:1861
Birth Place:Clifton, Bristol
Death Place:Woodgreen, Hampshire
Children:2
Awards:CB (1909)
CVO (1911)

Vaughan Robinson Nash (1861 – 16 December 1932) was a British journalist, economist and the husband of Rosalind Nash.[1] He was a correspondent of Florence Nightingale, his wife's aunt. Nash served as the Principal Private Secretary in the Coalition Ministry of H. H. Asquith.[2]

Biography

Nash was born in Clifton, Bristol to Charles Nash, a timber merchant, and Sarah Ann.[3] He began his career as journalist covering the London Dock Strike of 1889. He later became a "special correspondent", covering issues in crisis hit foreign countries, in particular drawing attention to the problem of hunger within the territories of the British empire, an issue that was sometimes neglected by administrators and politicians.[4]

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1909 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 1911 Coronation Honours. He had two sons and died in Woodgreen near Salisbury, aged 71.[2]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Lynn McDonald, ed., Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005, p.944
  2. News: Obituary: Mr. Vaughan Nash – Secretary to Two Prime Ministers . . 19 December 1932 . 14.
  3. Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813–1918
  4. Book: James Vernon. Hunger: A Modern History. 23,24. 2007. 978-0674026780. Harvard University Press. registration.