Herbert Vaughan

Herbert Vaughan 1832-1903, English churchman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Educated at Stonyhurst College and on the Continent, Vaughan was ordained in 1854 and joined the Oblate Fathers. He was vice president of the seminary at Ware and left there (1861) to go on a trip to America to raise money for foreign missions. The fruit of that labor is a college for foreign missionaries at Mill Hill near London. In 1871 he traveled to the United States to examine the spiritual state of the blacks, which had always concerned him. On his return Vaughan was made bishop of Salford, E Lancashire. When Cardinal Manning died, Vaughan succeeded him as archbishop of Westminster, the Catholic primate of England; in 1893 he was created cardinal. He improved the position of Roman Catholic schools in the archdiocese and the seminaries of England, and he cooperated widely with non-Catholics.

Vaughan, Herbert (1832–1903), Abp. of Westminster from 1892, made Cardinal in 1893. Descended from an old English RC family, in 1866 he founded St Joseph's College, Mill Hill (q.v.). From 1872 to 1892 he was Bp. of Salford. The most notable events of his archiepiscopacy were his obtaining permission from the authorities at Rome for RCs to attend the ancient English universities, the building of Westminster Cathedral, the discussions over Anglican Ordinations, and his activities in connection with the Education Bill of 1902.