Benjamin Vaughan MD FRSE LLD (19 April 1751 – 8 December 1835)[1] was a British political radical.

[citation needed] Vaughan was born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a British banker and West India merchant planter of Irish Protestant descent, and his Anglo-American wife, Sarah Hallowell, daughter of shipbuilder, Benjamin Hallowell.

[2] He was educated at Newcome's School and Warrington Academy and attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, without graduating.

[7] 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.

[12] They had several children, including: The family and their descendants remained in Maine after Vaughan settled in Hallowell in 1797[13] and continue to reside in the town today.