Benjamin Millingchamp Manuscripts,

Manuscripts of Benjamin Millingchamp, [17 cent.]-1829, including manuscripts of Persian poetry and prose, [17 cent.]-[18 cent.]; translations of Persian works, [?18 cent., last ¼]-[early 19 cent.]; manuscripts in Hindustani and Rekhta, [18 cent., last ¼]; letters and papers, 1778-1829, including Millingchamp's certificate of proficiency in Persian; Indian travel journals, 1781-1782; a diary, 1796; and sermons, [late 18 cent.]-[early 19 cent.]. Also included is the manuscript of Herbert M. Vaughan's biography of Millingchamp, 1940.

Archdeacon Benjamin Millingchamp (1756-1829), D.D., was the son of Benjamin Millingchamp, Cardigan, by his wife Anne Gambold. He was born at Cardigan in 1756 and was educated at Ystradmeurig School, under the Rev. John Williams, and afterwards at Queens' College and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated, and later took the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was ordained in 1777 by Bishop Yorke at Abergwili, and in early 1779 went to India as chaplain on board HMS Superbe, the flag-ship of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K.B. Leaving the Navy in July 1782, he became chaplain of Fort St George, Madras, a post he retained for some fifteen years, besides a two year leave of absence. In the summer of 1791 he began studying Persian, in the process acquiring a number of Persian manuscripts, and wrote various interesting accounts of Indian scenes and places. He returned from Madras a comparatively wealthy man in 1797 and bought the house and estate of Plas Llangoedmore, near Cardigan, in 1801. He married Sarah Rawlinson of Grantham in 1798. He was successively Rector of Rushall in Wiltshire, prebendary of St. Davids, and, from 1825, Archdeacon of Carmarthen. He died at Plas Llangoedmore on 6 January 1829. Millingchamp's only child, Sarah, was married in 1825 to Colonel Herbert Vaughan, second son of John Vaughan-Lloyd of Brynog, Greengrove and Tyllwyd in Cardiganshire. Their second son, John Vaughan (b. 1830), settled in Queensland, but returned after the death of his elder brother in 1855. John's eldest son was Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948), an historian and author. He sold Plas Llangoedmore in 1924 and went to live in Tenby.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 3473A, 4391-4412, 13915-6B, 13933-5.

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NLW MSS 4391-4412; Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, great-grandson of Benjamin Millingchamp; Plas Llangoedmore; Donation; April 1912
NLW MS 3473A; Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan; Tenby; Donation; June 1940
NLW MSS 13915-6B; Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan; Tenby; Donation; May 1941
NLW MSS 13933-5; Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan; Tenby; Donation; November 1940

Archdeacon Benjamin Millingchamp (1756-1829), D.D., was the son of Benjamin Millingchamp, Cardigan, by his wife Anne Gambold. He was born at Cardigan in 1756 and was educated at Ystradmeurig School, under the Rev. John Williams, and afterwards at Queens' College and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated, and later took the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was ordained in 1777 by Bishop Yorke at Abergwili, and in early 1779 went to India as chaplain on board HMS Superbe, the flag-ship of Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K.B. Leaving the Navy in July 1782, he became chaplain of Fort St George, Madras, a post he retained for some fifteen years, besides a two year leave of absence. In the summer of 1791 he began studying Persian, in the process acquiring a number of Persian manuscripts, and wrote various interesting accounts of Indian scenes and places. He returned from Madras a comparatively wealthy man in 1797 and bought the house and estate of Plas Llangoedmore, near Cardigan, in 1801. He married Sarah Rawlinson of Grantham in 1798. He was successively Rector of Rushall in Wiltshire, prebendary of St. Davids, and, from 1825, Archdeacon of Carmarthen. He died at Plas Llangoedmore on 6 January 1829. Millingchamp's only child, Sarah, was married in 1825 to Colonel Herbert Vaughan, second son of John Vaughan-Lloyd of Brynog, Greengrove and Tyllwyd in Cardiganshire. Their second son, John Vaughan (b. 1830), settled in Queensland, but returned after the death of his elder brother in 1855. John's eldest son was Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948), an historian and author. He sold Plas Llangoedmore in 1924 and went to live in Tenby.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Persian, Arabic, and Hindustani, compiled by Herman Ethé (Aberystwyth, 1916); Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941-1970 (London, 2001).

Title based on contents.

A detailed list of the contents of NLW MSS 4391-4408 and 4410B may be found in NLW, Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts, Persian, Arabic, and Hindustani, compiled by Herman Ethé (Aberystwyth, 1916). The catalogue is available online (viewed 18 November 2013): https://archive.org/details/catalogueoforien00natiuoft.

June 2005 and November 2013.

This description was compiled by Bethan Ifan for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones.

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For letters from Herbert M. Vaughan relating to Benjamin Millingchamp see NLW MS 13485C; other papers relating to the family are NLW, Plas Llangoedmor Deeds and Documents and NLW, Morgan Richardson Solicitors Collection; other manuscripts donated by Herbert M. Vaughan are NLW MSS 4413-4; books owned by Benjamin Millingchamp are also in the National Library of Wales.

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