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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Robert Vaughan (1795–1868)

Vaughan, Robert. An English clergyman, editor, and historian; born in 1795; died at Torquay, June 1868. He was a professor of history in London University; president of the Lancashire Independent College, Manchester, 1842–57; and originator and for twenty years editor of the British Quarterly Review. He published several important historical works, among which are: ‘Life of John de Wycliffe’ (2 vols., 1828); ‘The Protectorate of Cromwell’ (1838); ‘History of England under the House of Stuart’ (2 vols., 1840); ‘The Age of Great Cities’ (1842); ‘Revolutions in English History’ (1859–60).