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VAUGHAN, HERBERT (1832-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VAUGHAN, See also:HERBERT (1832-1903) , 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-See also:colonel See also:John See also:Francis Vaughan, See also:head of an old See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:family, the Vaughans of Courtfield, See also:Herefordshire. 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 See also:archbishop of See also:Sydney, and John bishop of Sebastopolis. 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, See also:Belgium, which was afterwards removed to See also:Paris. In 1851 he went to See also:Rome. 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 See also:Lucca in' 1854. On his return to See also:England he became for a See also:period See also:vice-See also:president of St See also:Edmund's See also:College, See also:Ware, at that See also:time the See also:chief See also:seminary for candidates for the priesthood in the See also:south of England. 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. With this See also:object he made a great begging expedition to See also:America in 1863, from which he returned with £11,000. St See also:Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, See also:Mill See also:Hill See also:Park, See also:London, was opened in 1869. Vaughan also became proprietor of the Tablet, and used its columns vigorously for propagandist purposes. 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. 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 See also:character simply devout.

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 See also: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 See also:Mass was said there over his See also:body before it was removed to its resting-See also:place at Mill Hill Park. See the See also:Life of Cardinal Vaughan, by J. G. Snead See also:Cox (2 vols., London, 1910).

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