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

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