Henry Halford - Family

Family

Halford married 31 March 1795 Hon. Elizabeth Barbara St. John (Born 22 February 1762 Died 17 June 1833), the third daughter of John St John, 12th Baron St John of Bletso and had issue including

• Sir Henry Halford, 2nd Baronet (1797–1868) who married his cousin Barbara Vaughan, daughter of Sir John Vaughan, his paternal uncle, and Hon. Augusta St John, daughter of Lord St John of Bletso and widow of the 13th Baron. They had two sons (both of whom married, but died issueless)
  • Sir Henry St. John Halford, 3rd Bart.
  • Reverend Sir John Frederick Halford, 4th Bart.
• Louisa Halford, later Mrs Frederick Coventry (d 30 September 1865), who married 18 October 1819 her second cousin Frederick Coventry (1791–1858), elder son of Hon. John Coventry (second son of George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and his elder son by his second wife Hon. Barbara St. John, only child of John St. John, 11th Baron St John of Bletso) and his first wife Anne Clayton, on 18 October 1819. They had two sons (who married and left issue) and two married daughters.

His father Dr. James Vaughan was the youngest son of the seven sons of Henry Vaughan, a surgeon, who settled at the corner of New Street and Friar Lane in Leicester in 1763. The father was active in the foundation of the Leicester Infirmary. He married Hester Smalley, the second daughter of a Leicester alderman, John Smalley (sometimes called Thomas or William in sources), by his wife Elizabeth Halford, second daughter of Sir Richard Halford, 5th Bart., of Wistow Hall, Leicestershire. Thus, while his paternal background was professional, his maternal grandmother came from the landed gentry. Dr James Vaughan and his wife Hester had at least six sons and an only daughter who married late in life. Halford's siblings included :

• Sir John Vaughan (11 February 1768 – 25 September 1839), third but second surviving son of James and Hester Vaughan, successively King’s Serjeant, Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and Privy Councillor. He married first his sister-in-law Hon. Augusta St John, daughter of Henry Beauchamp St John, 13th Baron St John of Bletso and secondly Louisa, Dowager Baroness St John of Bletso, widow of St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso and daughter of Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet. Sir John Vaughan and his first wife had issue, including a son and two daughters:
  • Sir (Henry) Halford Vaughan (27 August 1811–19 April 1885), Regius Professor of History at Oxford University 1848–1858.
  • Augusta Vaughan (5 May 1805 – 12 August 1880)
  • Barbara Vaughan (26 July 1806 – 24 June 1869)
• Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, GCH, PC, (20 December 1774 – 15 June 1849) a British diplomat; and
• Peter Vaughan, Warden of Merton College, Oxford (d. 1826).
• Reverend Edward Thomas Vaughan (c.1774 – 27 September 1829 aged 55), Rector of St. Martin's, Leicester, at the age of 25. He married 1stly 13 March 1804 Elizabeth Anne Hill (d. 16 January 1808 in childbirth), second daughter of David Thomas Hill of Aylesbury, Bucks, and had by her issue, three daughters. He married 2ndly 1812 Agnes Pares (d. 28 December 1878) daughter of John Pares, one of the town’s leading bankers, and had eleven children by her. Among them were three sons who were Rectors of St Martin's, Leicester
  • Edward Thomas Vaughan (26 July 1813 – 17 January 1900), the apparent donor of a portrait of his uncle Sir Henry Halford to the National Portrait Gallery.
  • Charles John Vaughan (6 August 1816 – 15 October 1897)
  • David James Vaughan (2 August 1825 – 30 July 1905) founder of the Leicester Working Man’s College that evolved into the present Vaughan College, the Adult Education Centre of Leicester University.

Sir Henry Halford also had an only sister

• Almeria Selina Hughes, née Vaughan (1771- 27 March 1837 aged 66); she married 1817, the Rev Dr HUGHES, Principal of Jesus Coll: Oxford.