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4 unusual facts about Benjamin Vaughan


Benjamin Vaughan

Indirectly Vaughan Road is linked to him as the northern end of the road headed into then Township of Vaughan.

Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British West India merchant planter, and an Anglo-American mother Sarah Hallowell.

He was elected at a by-election in 1792 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Calne in Wiltshire, and held the seat until the 1796 general election.

York County, Ontario

It was named for Benjamin Vaughan, one of the British commissioners who signed the peace treaty of 1783 with the United States.



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