Provenance

Various Parties

Purpose/Function

Reference, Research, Information

Arrangement

Arranged by Secondary Values (value of records to users)

Content

W. D. Vaughan was a councillor in the City of Kew, as well as the mayor on three separate occasions. He was highly involved in community activities including in the local Methodist Church, St. George’s Hospital, as well as the Kew Library which he helped found, and as a reward has had the reference library named after him. Also pioneering a local paper in 1926, he championed the efforts for public knowledge, including spearheading a the program that delivered free newspapers to local residents. In his retirement, he would publish a book entitled ‘Kew’s Civic Century’, which contained a history of the previous one-hundred years of Kew’s governance. The file includes: A classified book list for the W.D. Vaughan Reference Library (undated), correspondence between Cr. Vaughan and the Kew Historical Society, and two copies of an index for Vaughan’s ‘Kew’s Civic Century’.