The Worthing Gazette - Wednesday January 24th 1900 - Funeral of the Late Canon Vaughan - A Distinguished Career - Pulpit Reference
There died at Heene on Wednesday, at his residence, St Martin's Lodge, at the age of eighty-six years, the Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan.
His Clerical Career - He was the son of the Rev. E.T. Vaughan, Vicar of St Martin's, Leicester, and like his brothers, the late Master of the Temple and Canon David Vaughan (the latter of whom survives him), he gained high distinction at Cambridge. He entered at Christ's College, took the Bell University scholarship in 1831 and the members' prize in 1833 and 1835 (honours afterwards won by his brother David); he graduated in 1834 as twenty-ninth Wrangler and seventh Classic, and gained his Fellowship at Christ's College in 1837.
He was admitted to Holy Orders by Bishop Kaye, of Lincoln, in 1836, and licensed to the Curacy of St George's, Leicester. He was also Curate of Hathern, Leicesterhisre, from 1838 to 1841, and of Hodnet, Shorpshire, from 1841 to 1845. In that year he was appointed to the Vicarage of St Martin, Leicester, which his father and brother Charles had.held before him, and in which his brother David succeeded him.
The next year he became Honarary Canon of Peterborough, which he held till he was appointed to the same office in the Diocese of St Albans in 1877. He left St Martin's in 1859 to accept the Lord Chancellors living of Harpenden, Herts, where he remained till 1896, when increasing age compelled him to retire. He was Rural Dean of St. Albans for twenty years, and was Proctor in Convocation from 1850 to 1894. He published a volume of University Sermons in 1850 and the Hulsean Lectures delivered at Cambridge iin 1875. To the public he was less known than his brothers, but he shared (says the Times) their moderate Churchmanship and their gentle spirit.
The Funeral took place at Heene Cemetery on Saturday, the ceremony commencing at a quarter to one. Amongst the large number present were many of the clergy and deceased's only son, Professor Vaughan, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mrs Vaughan, and the lae Canon's three married daughters, together with their husbands. The body was enclosed in a polished elm coffin, with a cross extending the whole length. The inscription onthe breast-plate was as follows: Edward Thomas Vaughan, Priest, Born July 26th 1814, died January 17th 1900. R.I.P. Mr W.A. Hewer, of Rowlands Road, carried out the arrangements of the funeral.
Pulpit Reference - The Rev. J.P. Fallowes, preaching at Heene Church on Sunday, referred in the following words to the late Canon Vaughan: Yesterday we laid to rest in this place the mortal body of one who came to spend his last few years among us, enfeebled and bowed with the weight of many years. Very few of us here knew him in his prime, or had any access to his learned mind and its freshness. We knew the aged man whose work was done; we heard of the reputation for accurate scholarship and University honours; of his being ofa family singularly endowed with many excellent gifts. But there is one lesson that he has enforced constantly to this congregation iin the three or four years of his time among us. He has silently preached from the text "I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the House of the Lord." With all the infirmities of a body that had become burdensome, we may say with confidence that he never missed divine service Sunday or weekday of his own will, and so much had this become the desire of his life as well as its habit, that in the last days of his weakness he wold attempt to rise, thinking it was "time for church". He set an example also (and none should feel this more than I, who was privileged to be his minister) of a singular meekness. His type is often spoken of as the peculiar product and treasure of the Church of England, men unobtrusive but weighty, meek but leared. George Herbert, Nicholas Ferrar, and John Keble were such men in their several generations, and such a one among us was Edward Vaughan. Let me tell you that this man died as he had lived, in the fear and grace of God; and that the last act I saw him perform as his mind was losing consciousness was raising his hands to invite me to prayer.