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CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN (1816-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN (1816-1897)  ,
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English scholar and divine, was educated at
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Rugby and Cambridge, where he was bracketed senior classic with Lord LytteIton in 1838 . In 1839 he was elected
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fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for a short time studied law . He took orders, however, in 1841, and became vicar of St Martin's, Leicester . Three years later he was elected headmaster of
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Harrow . He resigned the head-mastership in 1859 and accepted the bishopric of Rochester, but afterwards withdrew his acceptance . In 188o he was appointed vicar of
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Doncaster . He was appointed master of the Temple in 1869, and dean of
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Llandaff in 1879 . Ia 1894 he was elected president of University College,
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Cardiff, in recognition of the prominent
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part he took in its foundation . Vaughan was a well-known Broad Churchman, an eloquent preacher and an able writer on theological subjects, his numerous
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works including lectures, commentaries and sermons; he was joint-author with the Rev . John
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Llewelyn Davies (b . 1826)—also a well-known Cambridge scholar and Broad Churchman—of a well-known
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translation of
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Plato's Republic .

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