Richard Vaughan (cricketer)
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| Full name | Richard Thomas Vaughan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
28 May 1908 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
1 April 1966 (aged 57) Woodborough, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-hand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1951 | Wiltshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928–1930 | Berkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Thomas Vaughan (28 May 1908 – 1 April 1966) was an English cricketer. Vaughan was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. The son of Thomas Hallowes Vaughan and Elsie Vaughan,[1] he was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. He was educated at Repton School, where his house and headmaster was the future Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher.[2]
Vaughan proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a Cambridge Blue in football for 3 consecutive years. He captained the University football team during this time.[2] He made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against the Leicestershire in 1928. In this match, he was dismissed for 3 runs in the Cambridge first-innings by Ewart Astill. He wasn't required to bat in their second-innings.[3] He played a second and final first-class match for the University in the same season, against Sussex.[4] He was dismissed for a duck by Arthur Gilligan in the University first-innings. In their second-innings, he scored 13 runs before being dismissed by Maurice Tate.[5]
He made his debut for Berkshire in the 1928 Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. He appeared in 3 further matches for Berkshire in 1930, the last coming against Oxfordshire.[6] He later joined Wiltshire in 1937, appearing again for the county in 1939 and after World War II, playing Minor counties cricket for Wiltshire to 1951, making 16 appearances.[6]
Outside of cricket, Vaughan worked for Shell in Ceylon during the early 1930s. Returning from Ceylon, he took up farming in 1935, buying Middle Farm in Winterbourne Monkton, Wiltshire.[1][2] He married to Blanche Innes Dickson in 1937, with the couple having 3 children, with their daughter Sarah Merion Vaughan being bestowed an OBE during her life.[7] He served in World War II with the Royal Army Service Corps, obtaining the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1940.[8] He was later promoted to a full Lieutenant and later in March 1941 to a Temporary Captain.[1] The Service Corp was later attached to the 18th Infantry Division, arriving in Singapore just 3 weeks before the Japanese invasion, which ended in a British surrender.[2] He spent time following the surrender as a POW in the Changi Prison, before being sent to work on the Burma Railway, working there for 8 months. During his internment he came across his brother-in-law, John Austin Dickson, with the two of them helping each other through their captivity.[1] His experiences during the war were rarely mentioned by him in later life.[2]
Following the war, he resumed farming in Wiltshire. He also served as a J.P., and as Chairman of both the local branches of the National Farmers Union and Conservative Party.[1] He gave up farming in 1963 following a series of heart attacks, later dying in Woodborough, Wiltshire on 1 April 1966. His wife died 41 years later in 2007.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The Hallowes Genealogy". www.hallowesgenealogy.co.uk. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Richard Austin family history". Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ↑ "Cambridge University v Leicestershire, 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Richard Vaughan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ↑ "Cambridge University v Sussex, 1928". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- 1 2 "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Richard Vaughan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ↑ "Descendants of Col. Thomas Austin". Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 34841. p. 2621. 3 May 1940.