Evan Lloyd Vaughan (c. 1709–1791) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1791. Cors-y-Gedol Gatehouse - geograph

Vaughan was the son of Richard Vaughan MP and his wife Margaret Lloyd, daughter of Sir Evan Lloyd of Bodidris, Denbighshire. He was educated at

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from 1725 to 1727 and was admitted at

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in 1728. He was Constable of Harlech Castle from July 1754 and

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in 1766–7. He succeeded his brother to Corsygedol in 1775. Vaughan was unwilling to stand at Merioneth in the 1768 general election when his brother William Vaughan declined re-election. J. Pugh Pryse was returned instead and when Pryse's died in January 1774, Vaughan was still reluctant to stand. However he was returned unopposed as

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for Merioneth in the by-election on 24 February 1774. At the 1774 general election soon after he had to fight a contested election, which showed the strength of the Vaughan interest. All his subsequent elections in

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and

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were uncontested. There is no record of his having spoken in the House before 1790. Contemporary parliamentary historian

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described him in 1816 as “one of the last independent members of the old constitutional school”. Vaughan died unmarried on 4 December 1791.

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