About Walter Taylor
Lived 1700 – 1743. Walter Taylor was a mathematician.
Walter Taylor ( – 23 February 1743/44) was a Trinity College, Cambridge mathematics tutor who coached 83 students in the 1724–1743 period. He later was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek.
He was the son of John Taylor, Vicar of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. He matriculated in 1716 from Wakefield School, Yorkshire. Taylor was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity on 7 April 1716.
Robert Smith was Taylor's Cambridge tutor.
Timeline 1717 Scholar 1719/20 BA 1723 MA 1736 BD 1722 Fellow of Trinity 1726–44 Regius Professor of Greek 1725 Ordained deacon 1726/7 Ordained priest 1743/4 buried at Tuxford
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British mathematician
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Walter Taylor was born in 1700 in Tuxford.
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Walter Taylor died on 23 February 1743.
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Walter Taylor was a mathematician.
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