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Humphrey Taylor
Bishop of Selby
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseDiocese of York
In office1991–2003
PredecessorClifford Barker
SuccessorMartin Wallace
Other post(s)Honorary assistant bishop in Gloucester (2003–2013) and in Worcester (2003–2016)
Orders
Ordination1963 (deacon)
1964 (priest)
Consecration1991
Personal details
Born(1938-03-05)5 March 1938
DiedFebruary 2021 (aged 82)
DenominationAnglican
ParentsMaurice Taylor & Mary Taylor (née Wood)
SpouseAnne Dart (m. 1965)
Children2 daughters
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge

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]

Biography

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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

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  1. ^ a b "Bishop Humphrey Taylor RIP". Diocese of York. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b 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.
Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Selby
1991–2003
Succeeded by