Millingchamp, Benjamin, 1756-1829

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Millingchamp, Benjamin, 1756-1829

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.