Vaughan Cornish FRGS FGS (22 December 1862 - 1 May 1948) was an English geographer.

[2] He was educated at home before attending St Paul's School, London, when he was 17.

He studied chemistry at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating with a first class BSc (1888).

His later works were focussed on the geography and legends of the British Isles, which he would often approach in a fearlessly original manner.

In his 1941 survey of historic thorn trees, he suggested that the winter-flowering Glastonbury Thorn, which he thought might have functioned as the meeting-point for the hundred of Glaston Twelve Hides, may have been planted by the monks of Glastonbury to lure local pagans away from the lustful associations of more ordinary hawthorns, which flowered in May when human sap ran high; it was, he claimed, 'a remarkable combination of nature knowledge with tactful piety’.