Vaughan Vaughan-Lee

{{infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = Vaughan Vaughan-Lee

| honorific_suffix = JP DL

| office = Member of Parliament for West Somerset

| term_start = 1874

| term_end = 1882

| predecessor = William Gore-Langton
Hon. Arthur Hood

| alongside = Hon. Arthur Hood, Mordaunt Bisset

| successor = Mordaunt Bisset
Edward Stanley

| birth_name = Vaughan Hanning Lee

| birth_date = {{birthdate|1836|02|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{dda|1882|07|07|1836|02|25|df=yes}}

| death_place =

| education = Eton College

| party = Conservative

| parents = John Lee Lee
Jessy Edwards-Vaughan

| spouse = {{marriage|Clara Elizabeth Moore
|1861|1882|reason=died}}

| children = 8

| relations = John Edwards-Vaughan (grandfather)

}}

Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee JP DL (25 February 1836 – 7 July 1882) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1882.

Early life

Vaughan-Lee was born Lee, was the only son of John Lee Lee of Dillington House, Ilminster,{{cite web |last1=Jenkins |first1=Terry |title=LEE, John Lee (1802-1874), of Orleigh Court, nr. Bideford, Devon |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/lee-john-1802-1874 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=30 May 2024}} and his first wife Jessy Edwards-Vaughan, daughter of John Edwards-Vaughan of Rheola.{{cite web |last1=Jenkins |first1=Terry |title=EDWARDS VAUGHAN (formerly EDWARDS), John (1772-1833), of Rheola, Neath, Glam. and 14-16 Regent Street, Mdx. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/edwards-vaughan-john-1772-1833 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=30 May 2024}} His father and maternal grandfather were MPs for Wells at the same time. After his mother's death in 1836, his father married Hon. Mary Sophia Hood (the eldest daughter of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport and Charlotte Hood, 3rd Duchess of Bronte) in 1841. From his father's second marriage, he had four younger half siblings.

Vaughan-Lee was educated at Eton College and joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st) in 1854.

Career

He took part in the Crimean War in 1854 to 1855 including the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman, the Siege of Sevastopol and the attack on the redan and Kinbourn. He was promoted to lieutenant in December 1854 and was wounded twice. In 1858, he became a captain and in 1859 retired from the army. He was a major in the Glamorganshire Light Infantry Militia, and a captain in the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry.

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorgan and Somerset and was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1871.{{London Gazette| issue=23704|page=474|date=8 February 1871}} In 1874 he assumed the additional surname Vaughan.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/138/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881]

At the 1874 general election Vaughan-Lee was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for West Somerset. He held the seat until he resigned shortly before his death in 1882.{{rayment-hc|s|3|date=March 2012}}

Personal life

On 7 August 1861, Vaughan-Lee was married to Clara Elizabeth Moore (1841–1911) in Appleby Magna. She was a daughter of George Moore of Appleby Hall, Leicestershire. Together, they were the parents of four sons and four daughters, including:{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Sir Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain |date=1921 |publisher=Burke Publishing Company |page=1803 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Genealogical_and_Heraldic_History_of_t/2v8-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1803 |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}}

Col. Arthur Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee (1862–1933), who married Ursula Pickering, daughter of Henry Dawnay Umfreville Pickering, in 1915.{{cite web |title=Cameron (Vaughan-Lee) Mss concerning the Dillington Estate, Ilminster, etc |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/40a3c429-4082-4780-aa1e-4de638b40ce9 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |publisher=National Archives (United Kingdom) |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=English}}
John Edwards Vaughan-Lee of Rheola (1863–1929), who married Alice Elizabeth Ashe, daughter of Maj. Waller Ashe, in 1888.
Jessy Isabel Vaughan-Lee (1866–1940), who married Walter Boden in 1888.
Adm. Sir Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee (1867–1928), who married Rose Cecilia Llewellyn, a daughter of Llewellyn Llewellyn of Nethway House, South Devon (and sister to Evan Henry Llewellyn).{{cite journal |title=Little Lives of Great Men |journal=The Illustrated War News |date=1915 |page=34 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Illustrated_War_News/5yNLAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA13-PA34 |access-date=30 May 2024 |publisher=Illustrated London News and Sketch |language=en}}
Alec George Vaughan-Lee (1868–1960), a civil engineer.{{cite book |last1=Humphreys |first1=Arthur Lee |title=Somersetshire Parishes: A Handbook of Historical Reference to All Places in the County |date=1905 |publisher=Strangeways |page=270 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Somersetshire_Parishes/jYEIw1t0HLgC&pg=PA270 |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}}
Katherine Mary Vaughan-Lee (1871–1962), who married Albert Philip Payne-Gallwey, son of Capt. Philip Payne-Gallwey (a son of Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet) and Frances Warburton (a daughter of The Ven. Charles Warburton), in 1900.{{cite book |title=Upper Ten Thousand: An Alphabetical List of All Members of Noble Families |date=1918 |publisher=Kelly's Directories. |page=1206 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Upper_Ten_Thousand/_fs-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1206 |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}}
Caroline Christine Lee (1873–1950), who married Richard Henry Ratcliff in 1894.{{cite book |last1=Street |first1=James |title="The Mynster of the Ile"; Or, The Story of the Ancient Parish of Ilminster: The One Royal Peculiar in the County of Somerset |date=1904 |publisher=H. Abraham |page=265 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mynster_of_the_Ile_Or_The_Story_of_t/JntbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA265 |access-date=30 May 2024 |language=en}} After his death, she married first-class cricketer and British Army officer Horace Ogilvie Peacock in 1908.
Alice Clara Lee (1877–1937), who married Admiral and Naval Secretary George Knightley Chetwode, son of Sir George Chetwode, 6th Baronet, in 1908.