William Wyamar Vaughan
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William Wyamar Vaughan MVO (25 February 1865 – 4 February 1938) was a British educationalist.
Vaughan was the son of Sir Henry Halford Vaughan, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. His mother Adeline Maria Jackson was Julia Stephen's older sister making him a maternal first cousin to Virginia Woolf. Vaughan was educated at Rugby, New College, Oxford and the University of Paris. Vaughan was an assistant master of Clifton College 1890–1904 before being appointed Headmaster of Giggleswick School (1904–1910), Wellington College (1910–1921) and Rugby School (1921–1931). He retired in 1931.
Personal life
In 1898 he married Margaret "Madge" Symonds (1869-1925), daughter of John Addington Symonds; they had two sons and two daughters (one of whom died in early girlhood). Their surviving daughter was noted physiologist, Dame Janet Vaughan. Margaret Vaughan died in 1925. In 1929 William Vaughan married Elizabeth Geldard.
