John Taylor (archdeacon of Leicester)

{{Short description|English cleric (1711–1772)}}

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John Taylor, D.D. (6 July 1711 – 29 August 1772) was an English priest.[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/reverend-john-taylor-17111772-80974 Art Uk]

Taylor was born in Kiddington, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1730; he graduated M.A. in 1743, B. & D.D. in 1752.{{alox2|title=Taylor, John (8)}} He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1745 until 1756,{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|period=1541–1857|volume=7|page=14|last=Horn |first=Joyce M.}} and Archdeacon of Leicester from then until his death at Salisbury.{{cite wikisource

|last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst

|first1=John

|last2=Hardy

|first2=Sir Thomas Duffus

|author1-link=John Le Neve

|author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy

|title=Archdeacons of Leicester

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|series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae

|volume=2

|year=1854

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|location=Oxford

|pages=59–63

|wspages=65–69

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