[5] He practiced medicine in Lewisham and was a surgeon for the Royal Kent Dispensary, Greenwich.
[3] Vawdrey built an extensive private practice in Plymouth.
He was elected an honorary life membership of the St. John Ambulance Association.
In the 1890s, Vawdrey was Stipendiary Medical Officer for the Devon and Cornwall Homeopathic Dispensary.
[7] The front of the pulpit made from granite at St Paul's Church, Charlestown was gifted by Vawdrey.