CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN (1816-1897)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V27,
Page 955
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN (1816-1897)
, English scholar and divine, was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, where he was bracketed senior classic with Lord LytteIton in 1838
.
In 1839 he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for a short See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time studied law
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He took orders, however, in 1841, and became vicar of St See also: - MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's, Leicester
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Three years later he was elected headmaster of Harrow
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He resigned the head-mastership in 1859 and accepted the bishopric of Rochester, but afterwards withdrew his acceptance
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In 188o he was appointed vicar of Doncaster
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He was appointed master of the Temple in 1869, and dean of Llandaff in 1879
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Ia 1894 he was elected president of University College, Cardiff, in recognition of the prominent part he took in its foundation
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Vaughan was a well-known Broad Churchman, an eloquent preacher and an able writer on theological subjects, his numerous works including lectures, commentaries and sermons; he was joint-author with the Rev
.
John Llewelyn Davies (b
.
1826)—also a well-known Cambridge scholar and Broad Churchman—of a well-known translation of Plato's Republic
.
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