Education
Jesus College.
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Jesus College.
A Royalist clergyman from Brecon, Wales, Thomas was the twin brother of the poet Henry Vaughan, both being born at Newton, in the parish of Saint Briget"s, in 1621. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1638, and remained there for a decade during the English Civil War. Vaughan took part in the Battle of Rowton Heath in 1645.
He became rector of the parish of Llansantffraed (Street Briget) Wales and took up medical studies, motivated by the lack of doctors in Wales.
But in 1650, Vaughan was evicted from the parish because of his Royalist sympathies. Vaughan later became involved with a plan of Robert Child to form a chemical club, with a laboratory and library, the main aim being to translate and collect chemical works.
Vaughan died at the house of Samuel Kem, at Albury, Oxfordshire. Vaughan quarrelled in print with Henry More.
Their pamphlet war petered out, but More returned to the subject of alchemists in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656).
Another critic of Vaughan was John Gaule. Vaughan fell out with an alchemical collaborator, Edward Bolnest, over money matters and alleged broken promises, and the matter came to litigation after Bolnest had threatened violence. Vaughan was accused as part of this affair of spending "most of his time in the study of Naturall Philosophy and Chimicall Phisick".
He is reported as having confessed that he had "long sought and long missed.. the philosopher"s stone".
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("Aula Lucis" (The House of Light) by the welsh alchemist ...)