Henry Taylor
British Anglican priest and religious controversialist
About Henry Taylor
Lived 1711 – 1785 (aged 73–74). Henry Taylor was a British theologian, cleric and writer.
Henry Taylor (1711–1785) was a Church of England priest and religious controversialist.
Life He was born at South Weald, the son of the London merchant William Taylor (1673–1750) 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. 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. Confusion Worse Confounded, 1772. Against William Warburton, as "Indignatio". A Full Answer to a ... Late View of the Internal Evidence of Christian Religion, 1777, anonymous. Against Soame Jenyns. An Enquiry into the Opinions of the Learned Christians, 1777. As "Khalid E'bn Abdallah". Thoughts on the nature of the grand apostacy; with reflections on the 15th chapter of Mr Gibbon's History, 1781 Farther Thoughts on the Nature of the Grand Apostacy of the Christian Churches (1783).
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British Anglican priest and religious controversialist
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Henry Taylor was born in 1711.
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Henry Taylor died in 1785.
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