Henry Taylor (priest)


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

Life

He was born at South Weald, the son of the London merchant William Taylor and his wife, Anne Crisp. He was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney, and then at Queens' College, Cambridge.
Taylor's clerical career was advanced by the support of Benjamin Hoadly, from 1734 Bishop of Winchester. He was Rector of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire from 1737 to 1746, Vicar of Portsmouth from 1745 and Rector of Crawley from 1755.

Works

Taylor was an Arian who used various pseudonyms in religious controversies with William Warburton, Soame Jenyns and Edward Gibbon. His works included: