Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden

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Sir Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden (c 1460-1523), was a soldier and courtier in England and an early member of the House of Commons. The son of Lancastrian loyalists who grew up during the years of Yorkian rule, Vaux served under Henry VII when he recovered the throne in 1485. Vaux was active in the early English parliament, and was created Baron in 1523. At the time, he had already fallen ill, and he died that same year.

Sir Nicholas Vaux appears as a minor character in William Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

Sir Nicholas Vaux's son was the poet Thomas Vaux.