Richard Vaughan (c.1550 – 30 March 1607) was a Welsh bishop of the

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Life

His father was Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Llŷn,

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. He was educated at

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, where he graduated BA in 1574, MA in 1577, and DD in 1589. He became chaplain to John Aylmer,

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, who is said to have been a relative. Vaughan assisted William Morgan in his translation of the Bible into Welsh, published in 1588. He was rector of

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from 1578 to 1580, and of Little Canfield in 1580;

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in 1588; rector of

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and Moreton in 1592, and of Stanford Rivers in 1594. He became

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in 1595,

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in 1597, was Bishop of London from 1604 to 1607. His views were

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, and he signed and is presumed to have had input into the ''

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'' of 1595. He licensed in 1606 the translation of the work ''Institutiones Theologicae'' of the Reformed theologian

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(Gulielmus Bucanus) of

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, carried out by Robert Hill. As Bishop of London he was generally sympathetic to moderate Puritan clergy; but he did take action in suspending Stephen Egerton.Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, ''Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia'' (2006), p. 87.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughan, Richard 1550 births 1607 deaths Bishops of London Archdeacons of Middlesex Bishops of Chester Bishops of Bangor 16th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 17th-century Church of England bishops Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 16th-century Anglican theologians 17th-century Anglican theologians