John Taylor

Who was John Taylor?

John Ralph Strickland Taylor was Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1942 to 1954. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 13 December 1883 and educated at Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1910 after a period of study at Ridley Hall, Cambridge he was then Chaplain, Tutor and Vice Principal there until he became Chaplain of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. From 1818 until 1928 he was Headmaster of St Lawrence College, Ramsgate. Later he was Rector of Hodnet then Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford - a post he held until his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 13 December 1961.