Murray Vaughan

Who was Murray Vaughan?

A. Murray Vaughan, CC was a philanthropist of the arts in Canada.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1969.

Vaughan lived in Montreal for four decades until the 1970s, where for a time he was president of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In later years, he returned to New Brunswick and became an honorary chair of Fredericton's Beaverbrook Art Gallery. At 86, he died in Saint John, New Brunswick, in the province where he was born.