Richard Vaughan

Richard Thomas Vaughan (28 May 1908 – 1 April 1966) was an English cricketer who played for Berkshire and Wiltshire, as a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. In later life he was a farmer and magistrate.

The son of Thomas Hallowes Vaughan and Elsie Vaughan, he was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He was educated at Repton School, where his house and headmaster was the future Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher.

Vaughan proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a Blue in football for three consecutive years. He captained the university football team during this time. He played a second and final first-class match for the university in the same season, against Sussex, where he was dismissed for a duck by Arthur Gilligan in the university first innings. In their second innings, he scored 13 runs before being dismissed by Maurice Tate.

He made his debut for Berkshire in the 1928 Minor Counties Championship against Wiltshire. He appeared in three further matches for Berkshire in 1930, the last coming against Oxfordshire. He later joined Wiltshire in 1937, appearing again for the county in 1939 and after World War II, playing Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire until 1951 and making 16 appearances. Their eldest daughter Sarah, a civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, was appointed OBE in the 1998 New Year Honours.

He served in World War II with the Royal Army Service Corps, obtaining the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1940. He was later promoted to a full Lieutenant and in March 1941 to a Temporary Captain.