Mary Elizabeth Winifred Vaughan

1893 —
A brief biography

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Benedict Vaughan 1862 — 1911
Mary Elizabeth Winifred Vaughan 1893 —

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Hugh William Rawlinson 1878 — 1963  

Mary Elizabeth Winifred Vaughan


Wife of Benedict Vaughan.

Born in 1893, the fifty-sixth year of the reign of King Victoria.

Married into wealth


Mary Vaughan married Hugh Rawlinson in the Strand in 1912, when she was 19 and he was 44. As the son of the silk mercer William Rawlinson who owned Pearsall & Co, Hugh would have been the heir to the Rawlinson estate, which would have included Hill House in Campden Square London (current value £30 million), a priceless collection of Turner drawings, and the family portrait by William Blake Richmond.

A tragic decline

What happened after the marriage in 1912 is unknown, we know she was sent to finishing school in Switzerland and France, however there were no children. In 1933 Hugh Rawlinson married again, to Mary Long.
The last anyone heard of her was in 1956, when she turned up to visit her sister Edith in Bletchingley. She was now an alcoholic, and Edith's husband William gave her £60, a considerable sum of money at the time, and sent her away. She was never heard of again.


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