James Vaughan (magistrate)

[4] He was chief of the Commission of Inquiry into Corrupt Practices at Gloucester in 1859 and at Berwick-upon-Tweed in the following year, and in 1864 he was appointed magistrate of the Police Court at Bow Street.

He received the honour of knighthood in 1897,[1][2] the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and retired from his work at Bow Street in 1899.

In 1889 he issued a warrant for the arrest of journalist Ernest Parke for his libel of Lord Euston during the notorious Cleveland Street scandal.

Sir James, who was in his 93rd year and had been in poor health for some little time, died in his sleep, death being due to heart failure.

Mr. Harry Wilson, one of the solicitors practising at the Court, also spoke in terms of high praise of Sir James Vaughan as a magistrate, and referred especially to his generosity to the poor of the district.