Career
He played as a forward for Aston Villa before the Football League was formed between 1880 and 1888. Vaughton played for England on five occasions, scoring six goals. Five of his goals were scored in a 13-0 victory over Ireland in Belfast on 18 February 1882, with his Villa team-mate Arthur Brown contributing four.
Therefore Vaughton holds the record as the most goals scored by one player during an England international football match.
After his football career ended he ran a silversmith"s firm and was charged with making a new after the original disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1895. The Villa News and Record 1 September
1906 He died in Birmingham on 6 January 1937, three days before what would have been his 76th birthday.