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He was the son of Walter Vaughan (died 1598) and was born at Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire , his father's estate. He was descended from an ancient prince of Powys . He was brother to John Vaughan, 1st Earl Of Carbery ( 1572 – 1634 ) and General Sir Henry or Harry Vaughan ( 1587 – 1659 ), a well-known Royalist leader in the English Civil War . William was educated at Jesus College, Oxford , and took the degree of Doctor Of Laws at Vienna . In 1616 he bought a grant of land on the south coast of Newfoundland , to which he sent two batches of settlers. In 1622 he visited the settlement, which he called Cambriol, and returned to England in 1625. Vaughan apparently paid another visit to his colony, but his plans for its prosperity were foiled by the severe winters. In 1628 he transferred his interests to the colony of Virginia . He died at his house of Torcoed, Carmarthenshire, in August 1641. His chief work is ''The Golden Grove'' (1600), a general guide to morals, politics and literature, in which the manners of the time are severely criticized, plays being denounced as folly and wickedness. The section in praise of poetry borrows much from earlier writers on the subject. ''The Golden Fleece … transported from Cambriol Colchis, by Orpheus junior'' (1626) is the most interesting of his other works. A long and fantastic prose Allegory , it demonstrates "the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading" through the colonization of Newfoundland. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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