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See also: cardinal and See also: arch-See also: bishop of See also: Westminster, was See also: born at See also: Gloucester on the 15th of See also: April 1832, the eldest son of See also: lieutenant-colonel See also: John
See also: Francis See also: Vaughan, See also: head of an old See also: Roman Catholic See also: family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, See also: Herefordshire
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His See also: mother, a daughter of John Rolls of The Hendre, See also: Monmouthshire, was intensely religious; and all the daughters of the family entered convents, while six of the eight sons took See also: priest's orders, three of them rising to the episcopate, See also: Roger becoming archbishop of See also: Sydney, and John bishop of Sebastopolis
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See also: Herbert spent six years at Stonyhurst, and was then sent to study with the See also: Benedictines at Downside, near See also: Bath, and subsequently at the Jesuit school of Brugelette, Belgium, which was afterwards removed to See also: Paris
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In 1851 he went to See also: Rome
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After two years of study at the Accademia dei See also: nobili ecclesiastici, where he became a friend and See also: disciple of See also: Manning, he took priest's orders at Lucca in' 1854
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On his return to See also: England he became for a See also: period
See also: vice-president of St Edmund's See also: College, See also: Ware, at that See also: time the chief seminary for candidates for the priesthood in the See also: south of England
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Since childhood he had been filled with zeal for See also: foreign See also: missions, and he conceived the determination to found a See also: great See also: English missionary college to See also: fit See also: young priests for the See also: work of evangelizing the See also: heathen
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With this See also: object he made a great begging expedition to See also: America in 1863, from which he returned with £11,000
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St See also: Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, See also: Mill
See also: Hill
See also: Park, See also: London, was opened in 1869
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Vaughan also became proprietor of the Tablet, and used its columns vigorously for propagandist purposes
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In 1872 he was consecrated bishop of See also: Salford, and in 1892 succeeded Manning as archbishop of Westminster, receiving the cardinal's See also: hat in 1893
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Vaughan was a See also: man of very different type from his predecessor; he had none of Manning's intellectual finesse or his ardour in social reform, but he was an ecclesiastic of remark-ably See also: fine presence and aristocratic leanings, intransigeant in theological policy, and in See also: personal character simply devout
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It was his most cherished ambition to see before he died an adequate Roman Catholic See also: cathedral in Westminster, and he laboured untiringly to secure subscriptions, with the result that its foundation See also: stone was laid in 1895, and that when he died, on the 19th of
See also: June 1903, the See also: building was so far See also: complete that a See also: Requiem Mass was said there over his See also: body before it was removed to its resting-place at Mill Hill Park
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See the See also: Life of Cardinal Vaughan, by J
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G
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Snead See also: Cox (2 vols., London, 1910)
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