Edmund Vaughan

VAUGHAN, Edmund. b. Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, 26 Nov 1827; d. 1908, date unknown. Born at into a distinguished Roman Catholic family, he became a member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (C.ss.R), the order of mission priests (‘Redemptorists’) founded by St Alphonsus Liguori*. He was a Novice in 1850 and ordained to the priesthood in 1852. He worked for a time in Australia, and was recalled to England to become briefly Provincial of the Order (demitted office, 1898). He was based at the Redemptorist house of Our Lady of the Annunciation, Bishop Eton, Wavertree, Liverpool, though working throughout the country as a missioner. He translated the hymns of S. Alphonsus (apart from...