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Humphrey Taylor

Humphrey Taylor

Bishop of Selby (1938–2021)


Humphrey Vincent Taylor (5 March 1938 – 17 February 2021)[1] was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the sixth Suffragan Bishop of Selby.[2]

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He was educated at Twyford, Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[3] After training for ordination at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964.[4] He began his career with a curacy in Hammersmith[2] 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.[5] 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[6] (2003–2016).[7]

Taylor died in February 2021 at the age of 82, less than one month short of his 83rd birthday.[1]


References

  1. "Bishop Humphrey Taylor RIP". Diocese of York. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. Crockfords On line- accessed Sunday 23 March 2008
  3. Who's Who 2008. London: A. & C. Black. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8.
  4. "Gazette: obituary". Church Times. No. 8242. 5 March 2021. p. 21. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 30 July 2021 via UK Press Online archives.
  5. "Official announcement of retirement, 29 July 2003". Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
  6. "Taylor, Humphrey Vincent". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (December 2013 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 22 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "Gazette: deaths". Church Times. No. 8241. 26 February 2021. p. 26. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 30 July 2021 via UK Press Online archives.
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