Peter St George Vaughan (27 November 1930 – 4 April 2020) was the
area Bishop of Ramsbury from 1989 to 1998.
Vaughan was educated at
Charterhouse School
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and
Selwyn College, Cambridge, before beginning his ordained ministry as a
curate
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at Birmingham Parish Church, followed by an appointment as a chaplain to The Oxford Pastorate based at St Aldate's Church, Oxford. He was then the vicar of Christ Church Galle Face, Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 1967 to 1972 before becoming the
precentor of
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland and then
principal of Crowther Hall, the
Church Mission Society
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college at
Selly Oak, and then (his final appointment before ordination to the
episcopate)
Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness. In retirement he became a house-for-duty
assistant bishop of Bradford until 2001, then as an
honorary assistant bishop in the
Diocese of Bristol and
Diocese of Gloucester.
He died in April 2020 at the age of 89.
Death announcement
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References
1930 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Church of England bishops
Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Westmorland and Furness
Bishops of Ramsbury
People educated at Charterhouse School
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