Taylor, John (4)
Taylor, John (1)
the Water Poet, was born at Gloucester, England, in 1580, and was educated at a free school in that town. He went to London, where he was apprenticed to a waterman, and followed this occupation for the most of his life; hence his appellation of the Water Poet. He was also collector of the wine fees for the lieutenant of the Tower, and keeper of a public-house at Oxford and Westminster. He died in 1654. His productions, in prose and verse, number about 140, among which we notice, Urania, etc., with a Narration of the Thirteen Sieges and Six Sackings of Jerusalem, etc. (1615, 8vo): Superbice Flagellum, or the Whip of Pride ( 1621, 8vo): Against Cursing and Swearing, in prose and verse (Works, 1, 39-55): The Life and Death, of the Most Blessed among Women, the Virgin Mary, etc. (1622, 8vo): Verbum Sempiternum, an epitome of the Old Test. in verse (Works, pt. 3): Salvator Mundi, an epitome of the New Test. in verse (with preceding, in 1693, 64mo, called The Thumb Bible ): Book of Martyrs (1639, 18mo) ( Works, 3, 136-141): The Church’s Deliverances, from the year 1565 to 1630, in verse (Works, 3, 142-146): A Swarm of Sectaries and Schismatiques (1641, 4to). For full list and description of works, see Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Taylor, John (3)
an English divine, was born at Shrewsbury, and baptized at St. Alkmund’s Church, June 22, 1704, and was educated at the expense of Mr. Owen, of Condover, at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his A.B. in 1727. He afterwards became both fellow and tutor of this college, and in March, 1732, was appointed librarian, which office he held but a short time, being; in 1734, appointed registrar of the university. In 1744 he was made chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, and in April, 1751, was preferred to the rectory of Lawford, in Essex; while in January, 1753, he became archdeacon of Buckingham. He was made canon residentiary of St. Paul’s in July, 1757, and removed to London, where he resided until his death, April 14,1766.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Taylor, John (4)
a Revolutionary patriot and professor of natural philosophy and mathematics in Queen’s College. He was elected by the trustees at their first meeting in 1771, and Rev. Dr. Jacobus Rutsen Hardenbergh was chosen as president. The college went into operation at once, and before the war several students were graduated. When the war broke out, these two illustrious men threw themselves ardently into the cause of independence. Professor Taylor drilled the students as a military company, and they were quite expert in the use of arms. The irruption of the British troops who occupied New Brunswick broke up the college. An advertisement is still extant that the exercises of the college would be continued at a private house at the head of the Raritan during one of these years. Subsequently professor Taylor became colonel of the New Jersey State regiment; but he continued to discharge his professional duties for a time. In a letter to governor Livingston, Sept. 25, 1779, he speaks of the necessity of attending the examination of the students; and as the trustees insist upon my fulfilling my engagements, I hope I shall be discharged from the regiment as soon as possible. Of his subsequent life there is no public record accessible to the writer; but his name and relationship to the college are important and interesting as showing the patriotism of both officers and students of the infant college, and the close connection between enlightened academic education and the spirit of independence in that period of New Jersey history. Among those whom Prof. Taylor drilled in the company of students the most eminent was the first graduate of the college, Simeon De Witt, who was Washington’s chief geographer to the army, or topographical engineer, as the office is now termed. See Revolutionary Correspondence of N. J. p. 177; Hist. of Rutgers College. (W. J. R. T.)