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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:45, 29 March 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became Master of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of [[Llandaff]], and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">president </del>of University College Cardiff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became Master of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of [[Llandaff]], and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>University College Cardiff<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key lgbtwiki:diff:1.41:old-34477:rev-37978:php=table --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:48, 5 November 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became Master of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became Master of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Llandaff<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:49, 19 November 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Charles John Vaughan, Vanity Fair, 1872-08-24.jpg|thumb|right|&quot;Nolo episcopari&quot; (Latin for &quot;I do not wish to be made a bishop&quot;)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Charles John Vaughan, Vanity Fair, 1872-08-24.jpg|thumb|right|&quot;Nolo episcopari&quot; (Latin for &quot;I do not wish to be made a bishop&quot;)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chromolithograph caricature of Vaughan in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872]]'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of [[Harrow]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">School </del>from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chromolithograph caricature of Vaughan in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872]]'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of [[Harrow <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">School</ins>]] from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at [[Oxford]], confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:09, 5 November 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Charles John Vaughan, Vanity Fair, 1872-08-24.jpg|thumb|right|&quot;Nolo episcopari&quot; (Latin for &quot;I do not wish to be made a bishop&quot;)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Charles John Vaughan, Vanity Fair, 1872-08-24.jpg|thumb|right|&quot;Nolo episcopari&quot; (Latin for &quot;I do not wish to be made a bishop&quot;)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chromolithograph caricature of Vaughan in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872]]'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of Harrow School from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chromolithograph caricature of Vaughan in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872]]'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Harrow<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>School from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at Oxford, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Oxford<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">master </del>of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Master </ins>of the Temple (equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]]), Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key lgbtwiki:diff:1.41:old-19008:rev-19009:php=table --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:06, 5 August 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at Oxford, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at Oxford, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed four years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became master of the Temple, Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became master of the Temple <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(equivalent to Vicar of the Temple Church in the [[City of London]])</ins>, Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==References==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l10">Line 10:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 10:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. &quot;The Old School Tie&quot;. ISBN 0-670-52316-X</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan. &quot;The Old School Tie&quot;. 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Ross Burgess https://lgbthistoryuk.org/index.php?title=Charles_John_Vaughan&diff=3651&oldid=prev 2012-02-08T16:41:50Z

<p>Added image from Wikimedia commons</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:41, 8 February 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of Harrow School from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:Charles John Vaughan, Vanity Fair, 1872-08-24.jpg|thumb|right|"Nolo episcopari" (Latin for "I do not wish to be made a bishop")</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chromolithograph caricature of Vaughan in Vanity Fair, 24 August 1872]]</ins>'''Charles John Vaughan''' (1816-1897) was an English clergyman, and  headmaster of Harrow School from 1845 to 1859. His sudden resignation from Harrow, and his turning down the chance to be a bishop in 1863, caused comment at the time, but the real reason was kept hidden for over 100 years.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at Oxford, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fur </del>years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Homosexual behaviour, often of an abusive nature, was rife in Harrow in the 1840s and 1850s. When Vaughan was told about one such case, he clamped down on it immediately, forbidding the sending of love letters between boys, and the use of female names. However Vaughan himself was having a passionate affair with one of the pupils, Alfred Pretor, who told his friend [[John Addington Symonds]] about it. Symonds refused to believe it until Pretor showed him some letters from the Headmaster. Symonds was deeply disturbed by this, and in 1859, when he had become an undergraduate at Oxford, confided in the Corpus Professor of Latin, John Conington. Conington encouraged Symonds to tell his father, who immediately wrote to Vaughan, threatening to expose him unless he resigned at once.&lt;ref&gt;Alasdare Hickson, &lt;cite&gt;The Poisoned Bowl - Sex and the public school&lt;/cite&gt;, Duckworth, 1996, ISBN 0-7156-2709-0, pp 68&amp;ndash;9.&lt;/ref&gt; The threat was renewed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">four </ins>years later, which forced Vaughan to withdraw his acceptance of appointment as Bishop of Oxford.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became master of the Temple, Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In later years Vaughan became master of the Temple, Dean of Llandaff, and president of University College Cardiff.</div></td></tr> </table>

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