Charles Tylor (2 November 1816 – 14 March 1902) was an English Quaker author. He was the founding editor of Quaker weekly publication, The Friend.^[1] He was a Recorded Minister of the Religious Society of Friends.

Tylor was born in Cripplegate, London, England,^[2] the son of Joseph Tylor (1780-1836) and Sarah Maria (Savory) (1789–Deceased), his wife.^[3] He trained as a Barrister but did not practice, opting instead to be an educator in Yorkshire and the south of England.^[3] While living in Brighton and Lewes in the 1850s, he became a minister.

Tylor compiled and edited memoirs of deceased Friends. He edited and enlarged and published Edward Backhouse's Early Church History and its sequel Witnesses for Christ, after Backhouse's death: both books went through several editions.

Tylor and his wife Gulielma Maria Sparkes, born in Petrock Parish, Exeter, Devon, on 29 July 1823, daughter of Joseph Sparkes and wife Sarah ..., whom he married in London, Middlesex, in March 1848, had seven children. Their eldest daughter, Mary (1849–1887), married George Cadbury (1839–1922), the chocolatier,^[3] on 14 March 1872.^[4] Catherine (1850–1930), their second child, married Alfred Bastin (1847–1917) on 21 March 1872 and Elizabeth (1852–1928), their fourth child, married 1879 Richard Hingston Fox (1853-1924) a descendant of Joseph Fox of Falmouth, founder of the medical dynastie of he Fox family.^[5] Their other children, in birth order, are Joseph Sparkes Tylor (1851–1922), Rachel Savory Tylor (1855–1937), Gulielma Tylor (1857–1935), and Theodore Tylor (1866–1887).

Tylor died in Brighton, Sussex, England, aged 85.

Books and articles written or edited by Charles Tylor (Many of these are available at the Library at Friends House, London):