Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Taylor, John (5)
Taylor, John, s. Thomas, of Ashbourne, co. Derby, arm. Christ Church, matric. 10 March, 1728-29, aged 17; 'friend of Dr. Johnson,' 'LL.D., chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire,' rector of Market Bosworth, co. Leicester, 1740, preb. of Westminster 1746, preacher at the chapel in the Broadway, Westminster, 1748, rector of Lawford, Essex, 1751, curate of St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, 1769, rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1784, until his death 29 Feb., 1788. See Gent.'s Mag., i. 274.