Benjamin Vaughan
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Dr. Benjamin Vaughan MD, FRSE LLD, born in 1751 and died on December 8, 1835, was a British political radical.
At the time of the draft of the Treaty of Paris, he served as a commissioner in the talks between Britain and the US.
Life
Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British banker and West India merchant planter of Irish Protestant descent, and Sarah Hallowell, the daughter of shipbuilder Benjamin Hallowell.
He was educated at Newcome's School and Warrington Academy, and he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, without graduating. He then studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. During his stay in Edinburgh in 1785, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, Dugald Stewart, and James Hutton were among his contenders.
His longer-term interest was in politics and sciences, the former triggering his friendship with Benjamin Franklin. Vaughan was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, to which his father, Samuel Vaughan, was elected a member two years earlier.
Vaughan, a political economist, merchant, and medical doctor, was an economist, financier, and surgeon. He met Lady Shelburne through Benjamin Horne, the brother of John Horne. Shelburne then used Vaughan in a diplomatic capacity to try to bring peace between Great Britain and the US toward the end of the American War of Independence. He was also a middleman in reconciling Franklin and Shelburne.
He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Calne in Wiltshire in 1792 and held office until the 1796 general election (he was absent from 1794). In his maiden speech, he spoke out in parliament in favor of slavery in Jamaica. However, he came out in favour of abolishing slavery in February 1794. Since slaves could no longer be repressed by ignorance and apprehension, he believed they should be given permission not to revolt. He lived in Finsbury Square during his time in London. He was arrested in 1794 on suspicion of treason in connection with the French invasion of England.
Vaughan left France for Switzerland and then to America in 1794. His permanent departure from Britain was due to his fascination with republicanism. In 1797, he arrived in Boston and later on a farm in Hallowell, Maine.
He is thought to be the builder (or closely related to the builder) of Hallowell House in Boston, and it is likely that his Jamaican links gave rise to the district's name being named Jamaica Plain.
In 1805, Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1813, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
In 1835, he died in Hallowell.