John Edwards-Vaughan, also known as John Edwards (29 March 1772 – 16 August 1833) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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in two periods between 1818 and 1832. He was the son of John Edwards of Belvedere House, Lambeth, Surrey, who had bought an estate in the Neath valley and built

Rheola House Rheola House is a Grade II* listed Building, listed country house between Glynneath and Resolven, in the Neath valley, South Wales. Designed by John Nash (architect), John Nash, it was built between 1812 and 1814 for Nash's cousin, John Edwards. ...

to a design by John Nash.www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk rheola-house-glynneath, Ref wa-11771
/ref> John Edwards senior died in 1818, and his son inherited his estate, and took the additional name of Vaughan in 1829 as a beneficiary of the will of William Vaughan of Glanelai, Glamorgan. Edwards-Vaughan was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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at the general election in 1818, but when he stood as a Whig at the 1820 general election, he was defeated by the

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candidate. He was appointed

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for 1823–24 and was elected to the

as a

at the 1830 general election, when he was elected as the MP for Wells,Stooks Smith, page 294 having stood unsuccessfully in

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. He was re-elected unopposed in

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, but was defeated at the 1832 general election. Edwards-Vaughan married twice: firstly Ann, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Williams of Court Herbert, Glamorgan and secondly Sarah, the daughter and heiress of Daniel Parkin and his wife Sarah Barwis of London, and widow of James Dalton of Russell Square, Middlesex, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Their daughter Jessie married his fellow MP at Wells,

John Lee Lee John Lee Lee (' Hanning; 11 December 1802 – 16 August 1874) of Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer in Devon, and of Dillington House, near Ilminster in Somerset, was a British Whig politician who was Member of Parliament for Wells ...

and their son Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee sat as an MP after serving in the

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.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
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