VAUGHAN, BENnv (1622-95). An English poet. Ile was born at Newton-by-ITsk. South Wales, and entered Jesus College, Oxford (1638). Ile studied law mid medicine in London, with drawing subsequently to his native place, where he became an eminent physician (1650). Ile wrote poetry on various subjects, chiefly devo tional. Among his works are: Poems with the Tenth Salyre of Jurenal Englished Otter lseanus The Mount of (Mires. or Soli tary Iterations (1652) ; and Thalia Rediriva ( 1G731. Ills complete works were edited by Gros art (London, 1871) and his p.s./11:3 by Chambers lib.. 1896). His verse, sometimes harsh, has a frequent, charm of quaintness and a delicate force. VAUGHAN, IIEitinurr (1832-1903). An Eng lish Boman Catholic prelate. 11c was born at Gloucester, and studied at Stonyhurst College, at Brugelette, in Belgium, and at the Aceademia de' Nobili Ecelesiastici in Rome. After his or dination in 1854 be joined the Oblates of Saint Charles, then under Cardinal Manning's direc tion. In 1862 he left Saint Edmund's College, Ware, of which he had been for some time vice president, and devoted himself to missionary work in England and to founding Saint Joseph's College at Mill Hill, near London, for training missionaries. Tle was especially interested in
work among the negroes of America, and in 1871 accompanied thither the first detachment of priests sent from the college. He was chosen Bishop of Salford in 1872. After twenty years of work in this diocese, he was appointed Arch bishop of Westminster to succeed Cardinal Man ning, and himself received the cardinal's hat in 1893. He was always an active worker on be half of the cause which he represented: as pro prietor of the Tablet and the Dublin Review, he inspired a vigorous defense of the Roman Catholic position, which appeared also in his public utterances, always marked by an uncom promising attitude toward the other religious bodies in England. It was often said that the Papal decision against the validity of Anglican orders was largely due to his efforts. His in terest in the temperance cause, in work among children, and in commercial education under Catholic auspices (for which he built Saint Bede's College) was well known.