This family was a wealthy Cardiff family where they owned significant property in the town centre. They took part in many community projects such as the library, the museum, and the Council. Their association with Llantwit Major came through Frederick Vachell who married Ellen Wilkins of West House. The last Vachell son to live in Llantwit was Ernest Frederick de Winton Tanfield Vachell ,also of West House, who died at sea in 1903. [See Vol.7]
Article in Evening Express 1903:
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4138215/4138218/89/ellen%20moulsdale
Vachell – Man Dead
The main image is of a relative:
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES TANFIELD VACHELL M.D., F.R.C.P.
OF CARDIFF
1828–1914
ONE OF THE EARLIEST ADVOCATES
OF A NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR WALES
AND AN ORIGINAL MEMBER OF
THE WELSH MUSEUM COUNCIL
THIS TABLET HAS BEEN PLACED HERE
BY HIS FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE
CARDIFF NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY
Memorial to the late Dr. Charles Tanfield Vachell, which would perpetuate his long connection with the Naturalists Society. It was decided that this should take the form of a Memorial Tablet to be placed in a prominent position at the National Museum of Wales (by kind consent of the Council of the Museum)
