Benjamin Noel Young Vaughan (25 December 1917 – 5 August 2003) was an

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. He was born on

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Day 1917, the son of a Newport

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, and took his first degree at

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, Lampeter. He then moved to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and

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, where he trained for ordination. Ordained in 1943, he served two curacies, in

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and Carmarthen - before going in 1948 to teach theology at Codrington College in

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, the main centre of Anglican theological training in the

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. After four years there, he returned to his alma mater at University of Wales, Lampeter to teach Old Testament and doctrine, from 1952 to 1955. He was Rector of

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and Dean of Trinidad from 1955 to 1961; and

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of Mandeville from 1961 to 1967. Several of his students went on to become bishops in the

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. From 1967 until 1971 he served as Bishop of Belize. In 1971 he returned to Britain, and became dean of Bangor and assistant bishop in the Bangor diocese, giving assistance to the Archbishop of Wales, Gwilym Williams. In 1976 Vaughan was elected

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, a post that he held until his retirement in 1987.Crockfords on-line
/ref> Vaughan was affectionately referred to by his clergy as Beniamin Fychan (Welsh 'bychan' meaning small, in its mutated form 'fychan' from which the name Vaughan derives) in allusion to the Welsh of Psalm 68,v.27. He died on 5 August 2003, aged 85.

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1917 births 2003 deaths Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Alumni of Westcott House, Cambridge Anglican bishops of Belize Bishops of Swansea and Brecon Deans of Bangor Education in Barbados 20th-century bishops of the Church in Wales 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean {{Anglican-bishop-stub Academics of the University of Wales, Lampeter