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TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (bu farw c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary . It was a Welsh household; though Blanche was English she would have also been Welsh-speaking. Lewys Morgannwg states that she and her husband welcomed King Henry VII, his earls and possibly his queen to Troy House, near Monmouth in August 1502. They had two sons Charles and Thomas, both of whom were eventually knighted and served as sheriffs of Monmouthshire. (Sir William also had an illegitimate
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army was active in suppressing the various risings in North Wales on behalf of king Charles I, and was present at the skirmish on Y Dalar Hir, Llandygai, 5 June 1648, where Sir John Owen of Clenennau was overcome and captured. He was also a member of the High Court of Justice formed for the trial of king Charles, as well as of several commissions appointed by Parliament to deal with sequestrations, etc
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician Pendrill Varrier-Jones was born at Glyn Taff House, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on 24 February 1883, the son of Dr Charles Morgan Jones, a local doctor, and his wife Margaret Varrier (née Jenkins), whose family ran a coal mining business. (He changed his surname from Jones to Varrier-Jones in 1929). He had one sister. He was educated at Epsom College and then Wycliffe College, Stonehouse. At
teulu VAUGHAN Golden Grove, , Government and Political Movements He served under the earl of Essex in the Irish campaign of 1599. He was Member of Parliament for Carmarthen borough in 1601 and 1620-22. Appointed Comptroller of the Household to the prince of Wales (afterwards Charles I), he accompanied him to Spain in 1623. He was created baron Vaughan of Mullingar and earl of Carbery in the Irish peerage. He married (1) Margaret
teulu VAUGHAN Hergest, Kington Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Croft. Their heir, CHARLES VAUGHAN, was Member of Parliament for Radnorshire, 1553. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Baskerville of Eardisley, and the second Margaret, daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml, and widow of Roger Vaughan of Clyro. According to W. R. Williams, Robert Vaughan, sheriff of Radnorshire, 1562-3 and 1567-8, and
teulu VAUGHAN Tretower Court, the family soon ceased to play a prominent part in Welsh life. The inheritance passed to HENRY VAUGHAN, the third son. CHRISTOPHER VAUGHAN, son of Henry Vaughan, was sheriff of Brecknock in 1548-9, and his son, WILLIAM VAUGHAN, held the same office in 1591-2. He died 1613, leaving WILLIAM VAUGHAN, who died 1617. In addition to the heir, CHARLES VAUGHAN (died 1636) of Tretower, William Vaughan's
teulu VAUGHAN Bredwardine, 1541-2. His wife was Anne, daughter of John Butler, and heiress of Dunraven and Pen-bre. The main line now removed from Bredwardine, and we find WALTER VAUGHAN, Sir Richard's heir, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1557, and living at Dunraven in 1584. Walter's second son was CHARLES VAUGHAN, ancestor of the Vaughans of Cwmgwili and Pen-y-banc, and his heir was THOMAS VAUGHAN, sheriff of Carmarthenshire
teulu VAUGHAN Courtfield, well-known Jesuit preacher (' Father Bernard Vaughan '); and JOHN VAUGHAN, co-adjutor bishop of Salford. Four sisters became nuns. CARDINAL VAUGHAN (1832 - 1903), eighth Vaughan of Courtfield, was succeeded by his brother, FRANCIS BAYNHAM VAUGHAN (1844 - 1919), ninth of Courtfield. He, in turn, was followed by his son CHARLES JEROME VAUGHAN (1873 - 1948), tenth of Courtfield; he was ' Camerario
teulu VAUGHAN Clyro, serious enough for Thomas Cromwell to have them taken under escort to his own presence in London. It was probably this Roger Vaughan, having reached a position of respectability, who was sheriff of Radnorshire in 1576-7. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml, who took as second husband Charles Vaughan of Hergest, she being his second wife. ROGER VAUGHAN IV was the heir. He
teulu VAUGHAN Porthaml, without issue and the estate passed to Catherine, daughter of the second son, ROWLAND VAUGHAN (Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1559-62, and for Brecknockshire, 1562-7; it seems that he died before the next parliamentary election). Catherine married Sir Robert Knollys (Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire, 1588-1603). Their heiress married the head of the Vaughan family, Sir CHARLES VAUGHAN of
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Bruce Vaughan was born 6 March 1856 at Frederick Street, Cardiff, the youngest of the four children of Thomas Vaughan, sailor and tailor, and his wife Jane Agnes Gribble (née Davies). Educated at a private school in Charles Street, Cardiff, Bruce Vaughan became articled to W D Blessley, a prominent local architect, and attended the Cardiff Science and Arts Schools, winning the medal of the
VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621 - 1695), poet early. But he returned to Oxford to join Charles I, and fought for him in the Civil War. Partly because of this, partly because of his intemperance and long absence from his parish, he was deprived of his living in 1650 by the parliamentary commissioners (Richards, Puritan Movement, 50-2, and Religious Developments, 490). He then studied alchemy, first in Oxford, and then in London. He died 27

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