John Vaughan banker of Cornhill

London banker, partner with Richard Fuller and John Halford in the private bank known as Fuller, Halford & Vaughan c. 1774 and later as Fuller Banbury, Nix & Co., a predecessor of RBS/NatWest.

1. John Vaughan of Cornhill banker and John Halford of Cornhill banker were parties to a deed of 05/10/1774 under which Thomas Taylor of St Vincent sold annuities of £360 p.a. to a group of London bankers and merchants including the two men, secured on Taylor's estate and enslaved people in St George's parish, St Vincent. Vaughan bought an annuity of £50 p.a. for his life and that of Mary Vaughan, not further identified in the deed.

2. Will of John Vaughan banker of Cornhill proved 04/02/1803. He left legacies totalling £5000 to relatives of his partners in the Fuller family, and his residuary estate to his nephew and nieces surnamed Chowrie.

https://www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/companies/fuller-banbury-nix-and-co.html [accessed 17/10/2020].

1. Deed Book 1770-1776, British Library, EAP688/1/1/25, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-25 pp. 239-249.

2. PROB 11/1387/49.