VAUGHAN
,
JOHN
(
Siôn Grythor
; d.
1824
),
artist and violinist
,
and a native of
Conway
.
W. D.
Leathart
says that he used to
play the violin to the accompaniment of the harp
at some of the meetings of the
Gwyneddigion Society
of
London
,
c.
1776
. It was he who
painted the portrait
of
Owen
Jones
(
Owain Myfyr
, q.v.)
, which used to hang in the rooms of the Society. He d. in
1824
at a great age.
His brother,
WILLIAM
VAUGHAN
, described by
Leathart
as a native of
Conway
, was one of the earliest members of the Society.
Leathart
says that he was looked upon as ‘
a dandy of the first order, a distinction he was not a little proud of
’, and adds that he was related to
lady Mostyn
, mother of the
Sir
Thomas
Mostyn
, who d. in
1831
. This
lady Mostyn
was
Margaret
, daughter of
Hugh
Wynn
,
D.D.
; she was heiress of
Bodysgallen
(near
Conway
),
Plas-mawr
(
Conway
),
Bodidris
(
Denbighshire
)
, and of the
Vaughan
house (q.v.) of
Corsygedol
(
Merioneth
)
.
William
Vaughan
d. at
Hammersmith
,
c. 1827
, at a great age.
Bibliography:
-
Leathart
,
Origin and Progress of the Gwyneddigion
Society of London
, 1831
(London,
1831
);
-
M. O. Jones
,
Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig
,
National Eisteddfod Association publication, 1890
;
-
Y Cymmrodor
,
1951
, 96, 117.
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
