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Benjamin Vaughan MD LLD (19 April 1751 – 8 December 1835) was a British political radical. He was a commissioner in the negotiations between Britain and the United States and the drafting of the Treaty of Paris. ==Life== Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British West India merchant planter, and an Anglo-American mother Sarah Hallowell. He was educated at Newcome's School and Warrington Academy and attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, without graduating.〔(''Vaughan, Benjamin (1751-1835), of Finsbury Square, London.'' ) historyofparliamentonline.org〕 He then read medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His interest was in politics and sciences: the latter led to his friendship with Benjamin Franklin. Vaughan was a political economist, merchant and medical doctor. Through Benjamin Horne, brother of John Horne, he met the politician Lord Shelburne.〔Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Baron Fitzmaurice, ''Life of William, Earl of Shelburne, afterwards first Marquess of Lansdowne'' vol. 2 (1912), p. 165 note 3; (archive.org. )〕 Shelburne then used Vaughan in a diplomatic role, to try to bring peace between Great Britain and the United States, towards the end of the American War of Independence. He was also a middleman in reconciling Franklin and Shelburne. He was elected at a by-election in 1792 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Calne in Wiltshire, and held the seat until the 1796 general election. He spoke in parliament in defence of slavery in Jamaica, in his maiden speech. By 1794 he was in favour of the abolition of the slave trade.〔 After 1794, Vaughan left France for Switzerland and later to America. His interest in republicanism lead to his permanent departure from Britain. He settled in Boston and then on a farm in Hallowell, Maine in 1797. In 1805, Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf )〕 and in 1813, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.〔(American Antiquarian Society Members Directory )〕 He died in Hallowell in 1835. John Vaughan (wine merchant) was his brother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Vaughan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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