Everything about John Taylor 1704-1766 totally explained
John Taylor (
June 22,
1704 -
April 4,
1766),
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 registrar 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, for example
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 Marinor 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.
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