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676: 179: 199: 49: 33: 513: 259:, Symonds's biographer and literary executor, skipped the Harrow years, saying merely "The autobiography of the Harrow period is not copious". On his death Vaughan had all his papers destroyed and forbade any biography of him to be written. Vaughan had maintained his friendship with Pretor until his death and at his request Pretor undertook the duties of his literary executor. 558: 252:, ignoring Symonds's demand that Vaughan also never hold any high position in the church. Symonds telegraphed Vaughan, ordering him to resign or risk public exposure. So he resigned again. According to Noel Annan, "only after the elder Symonds' death did Vaughan dare to accept the deanery of Llandaff, where his ordinands were known as 'Vaughan's doves.'" 248:
read: "I have resolved after much deliberation, to take that opportunity of relieving myself from the long pressure of these heavy duties and anxious responsibilities which are inseparable from such an office, even under the most favourable circumstances." Four years later, in 1863, Vaughan accepted the position of
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Symonds senior wrote to Vaughan to inform him that he knew of his behaviour with Pretor. He would not expose him publicly, as long as Vaughan agreed to resign at once. After a long confrontation, about which nothing is known, Vaughan agreed. On 16 September Vaughan sent a circular to the parents. It
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calls it "an adolescent boy's jungle; a jungle where lust and brute strength raged completely unrestrained". Symonds was propositioned numerous times. A master at Harrow intercepted a note between two of the boys, and passed it to Vaughan. He summoned the whole school immediately, and read the whole
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subjects, his numerous works including lectures, commentaries and sermons. His greatest contribution to the Church of England was the help he gave to over 400 graduates preparing themselves for Ordination. These men became known as 'Vaughan's doves'. Eighteen of them became Bishops, and two of them
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Through this incident Vaughan was, in the words of Gathorne-Hardy, "... not for the first time... in the grip of a devastating physical passion which he was completely unable to control." In early 1858, Alfred Pretor (1840–1908), a spirited, good-looking friend of Symonds, sent Symonds a letter,
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In 1871, Vaughan joined the English Revision Committee, New Testament company, where the text of Westcott and Hort became the working papers source for the Revision Committee. Westcott had been an assistant master under Vaughan at Harrow from 1852 to 1859.
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telling him that he was having an affair with Vaughan, and showed him several love letters. Symonds did not mention the incident for over a year, and then in 1859, gave the whole story to
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He died in 1897 in the Llandaff deanery and was buried within the cathedral grounds. He had married in 1850 Catherine Maria Stanley, youngest daughter of
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Pretor was furious about the younger Symonds's part in the scandal and refused to speak to him; but the secret was kept.
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letter aloud. He then banned the sending of such letters, and the use of female nicknames, and flogged both culprits.
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points to discrepancies in the dates, and Symonds's own sexual orientation, as reasons to suspend judgement.
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Vaughan thanked Westcott for allowing him to use the text being prepared for the new recension.
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Vaughan wrote the first published New Testament commentary that utilized the scholarship of
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He was born in Leicester, the second son of the Revd Edward Thomas Vaughan, vicar of
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in 1838. In 1839 he was elected a fellow of Trinity, and for a short time studied
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is a novel loosely based on events surrounding Vaughan's resignation from Harrow.
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in 1879, a post he held until his death. In 1894 he was elected president of
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Until the 1970s no convincing reason for Vaughan's resignation from
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s had a schoolboy homosexual culture.
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Vaughan's grave in the churchyard of Llandaff Cathedral, May 2020
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The Old School Tie: The Phenomenon of the English Public School
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The Old School Tie: The Phenomenon of the English Public School
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Noel Annan, "The Intellectual Aristocracy," reprinted in
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Index

Charles John Vaughan

Walter William Ouless
Trinity College, Cambridge

Chromolithograph
Vanity Fair
English
St Martin's
Rugby School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Lord Lyttelton
law
Leicester
Harrow School
Doncaster
Henry Montagu Butler
Master of the Temple
Dean of Llandaff
University College, Cardiff
Broad Churchman
theological
Brooke Foss Westcott
Fenton Hort
Edward Stanley


Harrow School
Phyllis Grosskurth
John Addington Symonds

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