John Taylor (archdeacon of Leicester)

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John Taylor, D.D. (6 July 1711 – 29 August 1772) was an English priest.[1]

Taylor was born in Kiddington, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1730; he graduated M.A. in 1743, B. & D.D. in 1752.[2] He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1745 until 1756,[3] and Archdeacon of Leicester from then until his death at Salisbury.[4]

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  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Taylor, John (8)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, p. 14
  4. ^ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.