Vaughan, Herbert, 1832-1903

Herbert Alfred Vaughan, Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster, was born in Gloucester in 1832. Vaughan attended Jesuit College at Stonyhurst from 1841 to 1847, followed by another three years of study in Belgium. He also studied for a year with the Benedictines at Downside Abbey before continuing on to the Collegio Romano in Rome in 1851. Vaughan was ordained in 1854 at the young age of 22. He became vice-president at St. Edmund's College in Ware, despite being younger than many students.

St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society of Mill Hill (a section of London) was founded by Vaughan in 1866. This group was charged by Pius IX to work among blacks in the United States. The group later became St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart (the Josephite fathers) based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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