1. Benjamin Vaughan MD FRSE LLD was a British political radical.
16 Facts About Benjamin Vaughan
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Benjamin Vaughan was a commissioner in the negotiations between Britain and the United States at the drafting of the Treaty of Paris.
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Benjamin Vaughan was educated at Newcome's School and Warrington Academy and attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, without graduating.
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Benjamin Vaughan then studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
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Benjamin Vaughan's proposers were Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, Dugald Stewart, and James Hutton.
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In 1786, Vaughan was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, to which his father, Samuel Vaughan, had been elected a member two years prior.
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Benjamin Vaughan was a middleman in reconciling Franklin and Shelburne.
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Benjamin Vaughan was elected at a by-election in 1792 as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Calne in Wiltshire, and held the seat until the 1796 general election.
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Benjamin Vaughan spoke in parliament in strong defence of slavery in Jamaica, in his maiden speech.
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Benjamin Vaughan felt that since slaves could no longer be repressed by ignorance and fear, they should be given inducements not to rebel.
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Benjamin Vaughan was arrested in 1794 on grounds of treason, regarding the supposed invasion of England by the French.
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Benjamin Vaughan settled in Boston and then on a farm in Hallowell, Maine in 1797.
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Benjamin Vaughan is thought to be the builder of Hallowell House in Boston, and it is possible his Jamaican links give rise to the district being called Jamaica Plain.
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In 1805, Benjamin Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1813, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Benjamin Vaughan married in 1781 to Sarah Manning, daughter of William Manning, and sister of William Manning.
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The family and their descendants remained in Maine after Benjamin Vaughan settled in Hallowell in 1797 and continue to reside in the town today.