John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire. His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son, having received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1732, he was appointed librarian, and in 1734 Registrary of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders and became rector of Lawford in Essex and in 1751, canon of St Paul’s in 1757.

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  • John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire. His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son, having received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1732, he was appointed librarian, and in 1734 Registrary of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders and became rector of Lawford in Essex and in 1751, canon of St Paul’s in 1757. He died in London on April 4, 1766. Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e.g. Lysias (1739); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem (1741) and Contra Midiam (1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols. ii. and iii. were published. Taylor also published (under the title of Marmor Sandvicense) a commentary on the inscription on an ancient marble brought from Greece by Lord Sandwich, containing particulars of the receipts and expenditure of the Athenian magistrates appointed to celebrate the festival of Apollo at Delos in 374 BC. His Elements of Civil Law (1755) also deserves notice. It was severely attacked by Warburton in his Divine Legation, professedly owing to a difference of opinion in regard to the persecution of the early Christians, in reality because Taylor had spoken disparagingly of his scholarship. Taylor has a high school named after him in the village of Barton Under Needwood - Staffordshire.
  • John Taylor, érudit anglais. Il fut nommé en 1732 bibliothécaire de l'Université de Cambridge, devint archidiacre de Buckingham et enfin chanoine de Saint-Paul à Londres. On lui doit des éditions des Orateurs attiques, et le Marmor Sandvicence, inscription rapportée d'Athènes par le comte de Sandwich, qu'il publia en 1743.
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  • John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire. His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son, having received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1732, he was appointed librarian, and in 1734 Registrary of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders and became rector of Lawford in Essex and in 1751, canon of St Paul’s in 1757.
  • John Taylor, érudit anglais. Il fut nommé en 1732 bibliothécaire de l'Université de Cambridge, devint archidiacre de Buckingham et enfin chanoine de Saint-Paul à Londres. On lui doit des éditions des Orateurs attiques, et le Marmor Sandvicence, inscription rapportée d'Athènes par le comte de Sandwich, qu'il publia en 1743.
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  • John Taylor (1704–1766)
  • John Taylor (1704-1766)
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