Robert Vaughan (minister)

Robert Vaughan (1795–1868) was an English minister of the Congregationalist communion, academic, college head and writer, from a Welsh background.

In 1843 he succeeded Gilbert Wardlaw as president and professor of theology in Lancashire Independent College, removed (26 April) to new buildings at Whalley Range, Manchester.

[1] Dissatisfied with the Eclectic Review, which, under the editorship of Thomas Price, was favouring the policy of Edward Miall, Vaughan started the British Quarterly, bringing out the first number in January 1845.

During 20 years of editorship he retained its nonconformist character and its theological conservatism, but admitted on other topics a wide range of writers.

After ministering for a short time to a small congregation at Uxbridge, Middlesex, he retired to St. John's Wood, and concentrated on writing.

Taking part in the nonconformist publications for the bicentennial of the Act of Uniformity 1662, his tract in reply to George Venables's pamphlet questioning the right of the ejected ministers to a place in the English church was called I'll tell you: an Answer to "How did they get there?"

[1] As a religious and general writer his other works included:[1] Some of Vaughan's own contributions to the British Review were collected in Essays on History, Philosophy, and Theology, 1849, 2 vols.