Robert Dighton - D10880
Richard Vaughan ('Hell Fire Dick') ('A view of the telegraph, Cambridge')
by and published by Robert Dighton
published May 1809
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Portraits in Profile: the Dighton Family
Robert
Dighton
1751-1814
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'A View of the Telegraph, Cambridge', Dick Vaughan
(died
1822), published 1809
'Hell-Fire-Dick', was the driver of a coach, the Cambridge Telegraph,
and was a popular figure amongst the Cambridge fraternity. He
fell out of his gig and was killed when aged only thirty-two.
