William Wyamar Vaughan

William Wyamar Vaughan (1865-4 February 1938) was a British educationalist.

Vaughan was the son of Sir Henry Halford Vaughan, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. In 1898 he married Margaret (Madge) Symmonds, daughter of John Addington Symonds; they had two sons and a daughter, Janet Vaughan the physiologist. Margaret died in 1925, but not before she had had a lesbian affair with Vaughan's cousin Virginia Woolf. In 1929 Vaughan married Elizabeth Geldard.

Vaughan was educated at Rugby, New College, Oxford and the University of Paris. Vaughan was a master of Clifton College 1890-1904 before being appointed Headmaster of Giggleswick School, Wellington College (1910) and Rugby School (1921). He retired in 1931.

He fell and broke his leg whilst visiting the Taj Mahal in December 1937, while visiting the Indian Science Congress, resulting in his leg being amputated. He died shortly afterwards.

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* http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101036635/
* http://www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk/match/bathsept1893/bathsept1893.htm