Background
Vaughan was the son of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, and settled at Derwydd, Llandybie in Carmarthenshire.
Vaughan was the son of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, and settled at Derwydd, Llandybie in Carmarthenshire.
He was a Royalist leader during the English Civil War. He was extremely tall, 6 ft 7 to be precise. He was a younger brother of John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery.
He was re-elected in every election until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament.
In April 1640, Vaughan was elected Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament. He was knighted by the King at Oxford on 14 January 1643, and was disabled from sitting in parliament on 5 February 1644.
He was Major-General of the Royalist forces in Pembrokeshire from 1643 until he was defeated at Pill in February 1644 by the Parliamentary leader, Rowland Laugharne. He left Haverfordwest and went to Carmarthen.
He was captured at Bampton in the Bush and taken to London, where he was brought before the house at the same time as the Prisoners from the Battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645, and was sent to the Tower of London where he was a prisoner, allegedly as late as 1659, although he was reported on as a potential Royalist activist in Carmarthenshire in 1658.
He made his will when living at Derwydd on 27 November 1660 and was dead before a probate inventory of his estate was made on 5 January 1661, prior to proof of his will at Carmarthen on the 22nd. Vaughan"s fellow prisoner, Sir Francis Wortley, in his "Loyall Song of the Royall Feast kept by the Prisoners in the Towre" (1647), described Vaughan:
Vaughan"s son, Sir Henry Vaughan the younger, was Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire for some years after the Restoration.
Short Parliament; Useless Parliament. Happy Parliament; 2nd Parliament of King Charles I]
In 1620, he was High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for Carmarthen.