Humphrey Vincent Taylor (5 March 1938 – 17 February 2021) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the sixth Suffragan Bishop of Selby. Crockfords On line- accessed Sunday 23 March 2008

Biography

He was educated at Twyford, Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge. After training for ordination at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he was

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deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964. He began his career with a

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in Hammersmith and was then successively

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of Lilongwe, Malaŵi, a chaplain at Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln, a

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administrator (firstly for the Synod; latterly for the

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) before appointment to the

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as Bishop suffragan of Selby — a post he held from 1991 until 2003. In retirement he continued to minister as an

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in the Dioceses of Gloucester (2003–2013) and of Worcester, in which he had settled at

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(2003–2016). Taylor died in February 2021 at the age of 82, less than one month short of his 83rd birthday.

References

1938 births 2021 deaths People educated at Twyford School People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Alumni of the College of the Resurrection Bishops of Selby British expatriates in Malawi 20th-century Church of England bishops 21st-century Church of England bishops People associated with Bishop Grosseteste University Place of birth missing {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub