Peter Vaughan (bishop)


Peter St George Vaughan was the area Bishop of Ramsbury from 1989 to 1998.
Vaughan was educated at Charterhouse School and Selwyn College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at Birmingham Parish Church, followed by an appointment as a chaplain to The Oxford Pastorate based at St Aldate's Church, Oxford. He was then the Vicar of Christ Church Galle Face Colombo Sri Lanka from 1967 to 1972 before becoming the Precentor of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland and then Principal of Crowther Hall, the Church Mission Society college at Selly Oak and then Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness. In retirement he had continued as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester.
He died in April 2020 at the age of 89.