John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery ( 1639 - 1713 )

Baptism: St Dunstan's in the West, London, England, Europe (18 July 1639) Death: Chelsea, Middlesex, England, Europe (16 January 1713) Burial: St John the Baptist's chapel, Westminster Abbey, London, England, Europe (28 January 1713) Occupation: Politician; colonial governor Research field: Mathematics Education: Educated at home as a pupil of Jeremy Taylor DD and William Wyatt; Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1656); Inner Temple (admitted 1658) Career: Whig politician and supporter of Charles II; Commissioner for Militia, Carmarthenshire (1660); Deputy Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire (1660-1687?), and for South Wales (1685-1687?); Commissioner for Assessment for Carmarthenshire (1660-1680), and for Carmarthen (1663-1680); Gentleman of the Privy Chamber (1661-1674?); Member of the Council in the Marches of Wales (1661-1689); MP for Carmarthen (1661-1679); in Parliament, he defended Charles II's interests; aided in the impeachment of former Lord Chancellor the Earl of Clarendon (1667);MP for Carmarthenshire (1679-1681, 1685-1687), Colonel of a regiment of foot (1673-1674); Governor of Jamaica (1675-1678); charged with the supression of piracy, making piracy a capital offence (1677); facilitated the Royal African Company's slave trading into Jamaica; accused of selling his servants into slavery; friend and patron of John Dryden (FRS 1663); Lord of the Admiralty (1683-1684, 1689-1690); Governor of Milford Haven (1686-death); Custos Rotulorum for Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire (1686-death); Vice-Admiral of South Wales (1689-death); built Gough House, Chelsea (c.