Richard Vaughan (bishop)
| The Right Reverend Richard Vaughan | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of London | |
|
De Passe engraving, 1620 | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| Installed | 1604 |
| Term ended | 1607 |
| Predecessor | Richard Bancroft |
| Successor | Thomas Ravis |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Bangor (1595–1597) Bishop of Chester (1597–1604) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | c. 1578 |
| Consecration | c. 1595 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
c. 1550 Llŷn, Caernarfonshire |
| Died |
30 March 1607 London |
| Buried | St Paul's Cathedral |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Parents | Thomas ap Robert Fychan |
| Spouse | Jane Bower (m.1581) |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Ordination history of Richard Vaughan | |
|---|---|
Episcopal consecration | |
| Principal consecrator | John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Co-consecrators |
Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London John Young, Bishop of Rochester |
| Date of consecration | 25 January 1596 |
| Place of consecration | the chapel, Lambeth Palace |
| Source(s): [1][2] | |
Richard Vaughan (c.1550 – 30 March 1607) was a Welsh bishop of the Church of England.
Life
His father was Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Llŷn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1574, MA in 1577, and DD in 1589.[3] He became chaplain to John Aylmer, Bishop of London, who is said to have been a relative.[4]
Vaughan assisted William Morgan in his translation of the Bible into Welsh, published in 1588.
He was rector of Chipping Ongar from 1578 to 1580, of Little Canfield in 1580, of Great Dunmow and Moreton in 1592, and of Stanford Rivers in 1594.[5][6][7] He became Bishop of Bangor in 1595, Bishop of Chester in 1597, was Bishop of London from 1604 to 1607.[8]
His views were Calvinist, and he signed and is presumed to have had input into the Lambeth Articles of 1595.[9] He licensed in 1606 the translation of the work Institutiones Theologicae of the Reformed theologian Guillaume Du Buc (Gulielmus Bucanus) of Lausanne, carried out by Robert Hill.[10][11] As Bishop of London he was generally sympathetic to moderate Puritan clergy; but he did take action in suspending Stephen Egerton.[12]
Vaughan is a ninth-great-grandfather of singer/actress Judy Garland (1922-1969). His great-grandson, Henry Batte, emigrated to Prince George County, Virginia. Batte's great-great-grandson, Richard Baugh, was the great-great grandfather of Garland's father, Frank Gumm (1886-1935). Vaughan himself was a ninth-great-grandson of King Edward I of England through his daughter Eleanor.
References
- ↑ Cassan, Stephen Hyde. The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester: From Birinus, the First Bishop of the West Saxons, to the Present Time; Vol. II. p. 60 Accessed 11 September 2014
- ↑ Cassan, Stephen Hyde. The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester: From Birinus, the First Bishop of the West Saxons, to the Present Time; Vol. II. p. 64 Accessed 11 September 2014
- ↑ "Vaughan, Richard (VHN569R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-VAUG-RIC-1550.html?query=Richard+Vaughan&field=name Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15630
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15606
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15666
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ http://www.cprf.co.uk/articles/lambeth.htm
- ↑ Nicholas Tyacke, Aspects of English Protestantism, C. 1530-1700 (2001), p. 164.
- ↑ s:Hill, Robert (d.1623) (DNB00)
- ↑ Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia (2006), p. 87.
See also
Pollard, Albert Frederick (1899). "Vaughan, Richard (1550?-1607)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
| Church of England titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Hugh Bellot |
Bishop of Bangor 1595–1597 |
Succeeded by Henry Rowlands |
| Bishop of Chester 1597–1604 |
Succeeded by George Lloyd | |
| Preceded by Richard Bancroft |
Bishop of London 1604–1607 |
Succeeded by Thomas Ravis |