[1] He was born on Christmas Day 1917,[2] the son of a Newport alderman, and took a first class degree in Classics at St David's University College, Lampeter.
He then moved to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he achieved a second class degree in Theology, and Westcott House, Cambridge, where he trained for ordination.
[3] 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 Holy Trinity Cathedral, Port of Spain and Dean of Trinidad from 1955 to 1961;[5] and Bishop Suffragan of Mandeville from 1961 to 1967.
[7] In 1976 Vaughan was elected Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, a post that he held until his retirement in 1987.