John Henry Vaughan MC KC (Fiji) (9 February 1892 – 16 April 1965) was a lawyer and ornithologist who served as Attorney General of Zanzibar and later as Attorney General of Fiji.
[1] His work, The Dual Jurisdiction in Zanzibar, described the Protectorate's system of indirect British rule, whereby sovereignty technically remained with the Sultan of Zanzibar but with virtually all effective power in the hands of British-appointed officials.
[3] He put together an important collection of plants from Zanzibar and the eastern provinces of Tanganyika.
[4] He married Thelma Green in 1925 and became a keen ornithologist.
Their son was the eminent historian Richard Vaughan, who was also a noted ornithologist.