Henry Taylor

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1711 – 1785

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Who was Henry Taylor?

Henry Taylor was a Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.

Henry Taylor was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney, and then at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was Rector of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire from 1737 to 1746, 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.

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Born
1711
Religion
  • Anglicanism
Education
  • Queens' College, Cambridge
Died
1785

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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