Henry Taylor (priest)

Henry Taylor (1711–1785) was a Church of England priest and religious controversialist.

Henry Taylor was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney,[1] and then at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2] He was Rector of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire from 1737 to 1746,[3] Vicar of Portsmouth from 1745 and Rector of Crawley from 1755. He was an Arian who used various pseudonyms in religious controversies with William Warburton, Soame Jenyns and Edward Gibbon.

Works

References

  1. Rae Blanchard, A Prologue and an Epilogue for Nicholas Rowe's Tamerlane by Richard Steele, PMLA Vol. 47, No. 3 (Sep., 1932), pp. 772-776, at p. 773. Published by: Modern Language Association. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/457953
  2. "Taylor, Henry (TLR727H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1969). A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8: Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Victoria County History. pp. 263–273.


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