Humphrey Taylor
{{Short description|Bishop of Selby (1938–2021)}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Humphrey Taylor
| honorific-suffix =
| title = Bishop of Selby
| church = Church of England
| diocese = Diocese of York
| term = 1991–2003
| predecessor = Clifford Barker
| successor = Martin Wallace
| other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in Gloucester (2003–2013) and in Worcester (2003–2016)
| ordination = 1963 (deacon)
1964 (priest)
| consecration = 1991
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|3|5|df=y}}
| death_date = February 2021 (aged 82)
| death_place =
| religion = Anglican
| parents = Maurice Taylor & Mary Taylor (née Wood)
| spouse = Anne Dart (m. 1965)
| children = 2 daughters
| occupation =
| profession =
| alma_mater = Pembroke College, Cambridge
}}
Humphrey Vincent Taylor (5 March 1938 – 17 February 2021){{cite web|url=https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/bishop-humphrey-taylor-rip/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219180207/https://dioceseofyork.org.uk/news-events/news/bishop-humphrey-taylor-rip/|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 February 2021|title=Bishop Humphrey Taylor RIP|date=19 February 2021|publisher=Diocese of York|accessdate=20 February 2021}} was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the sixth Suffragan Bishop of Selby.Crockfords On line- accessed Sunday 23 March 2008
Biography
He was educated at Twyford, Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge.{{cite book|title=Who's Who 2008|year=2007|publisher=A. & C. Black|location=London|isbn=978-0-7136-8555-8}} After training for ordination at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964.{{Church Times | title = Gazette: obituary | archive = 2021_03_05_021 | issue = 8242 | date = 5 March 2021 | page = 21 | accessed = 30 July 2021 |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/5-march/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-rt-revd-humphrey-taylor}} He began his career with a curacy in Hammersmith and was then successively Rector of Lilongwe, Malaŵi, a chaplain at Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln, a Church administrator (firstly for the Synod; latterly for the USPG) before appointment to the Episcopate as Bishop suffragan of Selby — a post he held from 1991 until 2003.{{Cite web |url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page4279.asp |title=Official announcement of retirement, 29 July 2003 |access-date=23 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107202301/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page4279.asp |archive-date=7 November 2007 |url-status=dead }} In retirement he continued to minister as an honorary assistant bishop in the Dioceses of Gloucester (2003–2013) and of Worcester, in which he had settled at Honeybourne, Worcestershire{{Who's Who
| title=Taylor, Humphrey Vincent
| id = U34325
| volume = 2014
| edition = December 2013 online
| access-date = 22 August 2014
Taylor died in February 2021 at the age of 82, less than one month short of his 83rd birthday.
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