VAUGHAN
,
RICHARD
(
1550?
-
1607
),
bishop
;
b.
c.
1550
, second son of
Thomas ap Robert Fychan
of
Nyffryn
,
Llyn, Caerns.
He was educated at
S. John's College
,
Cambridge
(
B.A.
1574
,
M.A.
1577
,
D.D.
1589
). Shortly
after 1577
, he was appointed
chaplain
to
John
Aylmer
,
bishop
of
London
, who is said to have been related to him (
Baker
,
Hist. of St. John's College, Cambridge
, 235). He received numerous preferments, including a
canonry
of
S. Pauls
(
1583
) and the
archdeaconry
of
Middlesex
(
1588
). Elected
bishop
of
Bangor
22 Nov. 1595
, he was translated to
Chester
23 April 1597
, and thence to
London
,
1604
. He is said to have assisted
William
Morgan
(q.v.)
in
translating the Bible into Welsh
, and to have been a benefactor of
Bangor cathedral
. As
bishop
of
Chester
, he took firm action against recusants, and as
bishop
of
London
, silenced extreme
Puritans
. He d.
30 March 1607
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
J. E. Griffith
,
Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire
Families
, 1914
, 243;
-
Browne Willis
,
A survey of the cathedral church of Bangor;
and the edifices belonging to it …
, 1721
, 24, 109, 323.
Author:
Professor Glyn Roberts, M.A., (1904-1962), Bangor
