Henry Tayler
General information▶Date of birth: 3 September 1787 Place of birth: Broughton Poggs, Oxfordshire ▶Father: Archdale Wilson Tayler Mother: Frances Eliza Hall ▶Spouse(s): Jemima Maria Fraser Date(s) of marriage: 22 July 1820 Place(s) of marriage: St John the Baptist’s Church, Windlesham, Surrey ▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican), Schoolmaster; Translator ▶Lifestory: The Revd. Henry Tayler (sometimes Taylor) was a clergyman who apparently also worked as a schoolmaster who translated a Greek grammar from Latin into English; he enjoyed a plurality of parishes, it would seem, and eventually served as the Rector of Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire. He was the second of the nine sons of country gentleman Archdale Wilson Tayler, and his wife Frances Eliza (née Hall); his brother Frederick was a celebrated landscape painter. When he was still young his father “was ruined by his agent” (ODNB), and joined the Army. In his early twenties Tayler was ordained Deacon (1810), and in the following year Priest (both Norwich). For a while he was an Usher (= Assistant Master) at Bury St Edmund’s School, and in 1820, when he lived at Brighton, he married Jemima Maria, daughter of Sir William Fraser, Bart., at Windlesham in Surrey; the couple had two sons and two daughters. Soon after his marriage Tayler matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was able to study Divinity, achieving his BD in 1822. While in Brighton he was Curate of Brighton parish church 1824-30, after which he held the office of Perpetual Curate of St Margaret’s Chapel, Cannon Place (where he preached in 1826), from which he resigned in 1832. In 1825 he joined the Provisional Committee of the Brighton Athenaeum and Oriental Garden and by the following year was Joint Secretary of the Brighton Provident and District Society. That he worked as a schoolmaster is also suggested by the fact that in 1832 he published a translation from Latin of The rudiments of Greek grammar, as used in the Royal College at Eton, specifically as an aid to teaching in the “many Schools and Seminaries, where the Eton system is adopted”; the book continued to be published into the 1860s. Tayler was apparently happy to hold several posts as a pluralist. Between 1820 and 1829 he also served as Rector of Winnall in Hampshire, and in 1824 was a member of the Lewes Deanery Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1829 he moved briefly to become the Rector of Raithby in Lincolnshire. However in 1833 he returned to Hampshire as Curate at Chilcomb, again moving in the same year to become Rector of Kinwarton in Warwickshire, where in 1834 he was appointed a Rural Dean in the diocese of Worcester; at this time he also served as Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester. In 1834 he transferred for the last time, when he became Rector of Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, where he remained until his death. “He concerned himself greatly”, at Upton, “with the education of the people, both religious and secular, and was instrumental in procuring the erection of the schools” During his life in Upton-upon-Severn he spent some time in 1849 living at 7 Segrave Place (now 15 Pittville Lawn); while in Pittville he took out a subscription allowing him to walk about the Gardens, for a season. The Revd. Tayler died at Upton in 1864, after a long illness, at the age of seventy-six. ▶Moved to Pittville from: Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire Moved from Pittville to: Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire ▶Date of death: 5 January 1864 Place of death: Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire ▶Date of burial: Place of burial: ▶Notes: Emily M. Lawson, The nation in the parish: or, Records of Upton-on-Severn (1884) ID: 19263 Contributor(s): John Simpson
Found no family members on the Pittville History Works Database (based on “relation to head” in the 1841-1911 census records and 1939 register records) |