William Vaughan (bishop)

William Joseph Vaughan (14 February 1814 – 25 October 1902) was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church as the second bishop of Plymouth.

Educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and St. Acheul, in France, he was ordained a priest on 10 March 1838 at Prior Park.

In 1845 he was appointed president of Prior Park College, but was moved to Clifton Cathedral three years later.

The 60th Anniversary of his priesthood was celebrated in March 1898, when he received a congratulatory letter from Pope Leo XIII.

His health failing, he moved in 1891 to St. Augustine's priory, Abbotskerswell, near Devon, and appointed a coadjutor bishop to perform the actual work of the position.