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    Rev . Philip Taylor . The Rev , Philip Taylor , late of Harold ' s Cross , near Dublin , whose death was briefly recorded in our publication of last month , was born in the parish of St . George Colegate , Norwich , the llth May , 1747 . He was the eldest son of Mr . Richard Taylor , of that city , and grandson of that justly celebrated divine , Dr . John Taylor , whose admirable tract , " On the Value of a Child , " was occasioned by his birth . Some particulars of Mr . Taylor's maternal aucestors , who had been for two centuries resident in the parish in which he was born , will be found in the memoir of his truly estimable brother , Mr . John Taylor ( Mon . Repos . Vol . XXL p . 482 ) . From his fifth to his seventh year Mr . Taylor was sent to the school of Isaac Jarrny , clerk of the Society of Friends

    in Norwich . * His first classical instructor was his learned grandfather ; and in the year 1757 , he accompanied him to Warrington ; whither the Doctor removed , to fiJl the situation of Theological Professor in the Dissenting Academy then recently established there . For two years after this period he was under the care of Dr . Edward Harwood , an able classical teacher at Congletou , and author of the " Introduction to the

    Classics . " He then returned to Warrington , and passed a year under his grandfather ' s roof , going daily to the tree school , under the Rev . Mr . Owen . In 1760 , he became a pupil , with his cousin , Dr . Rig by , afterwards of Norwich , of Dr . Priestley , at NAiuptwich , whom he accompanied in the autumn of

    1761 to Warrington , in consequence of the sudden ceath of his grandfather , in the month of March of that year , and Dr . Priestley having been appointed Classical Tutor in the Academy . In the beginning of the year 1762 , he lost his excellent father ; and , in the following

    autumn , he was removed to the Academy at Exeter , under the care of Mr . Micujah Towgood , Messrs . Merivale , Hogg , aud Turner . There he remained till 1765 , when he again returned to Warriugton , and finished his theological course , under that excellent man and accomplished scholar , Dr . John Aikiu .

    The celebrated Dr . Crotch , Musical Professor at Oxford , and author of the Oratorio of * ' Palestine , " was born in the house adjoining Mr . Jarmy ' s .

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    In April , 1766 , he preached , for the first time in public , at Blakely , near Manchester . In September , 1767 , he was chosen assistant to the Rev . John Br-elffell , minister of Kaye Street , iu Liverpool , whom he succeeded as pastor

    of the congregation upon his death , and was ordained thereto , July , 1770 , in the presence of eighteen ministers . In the year 1771 , he paid his first visit to Dublin , a voyage having been recommended for the recovery of his health , and from , this incident arose his introduction into

    the family of the Rev . Dr . Weld , for whom he preached , and to whose only daughter he was afterwards married iu September , 1774 ; a connexion of unalloyed felicity to both parties . Never was man more highly blessed in a virtuous and sympathizing consort . Three years after this period he was invited over to Dublin as assistant to his fatherin-law , Dr . Weld , and co-pastor with his much-esteemed friend the Rev .

    Samuel Thomas , with whom he had previously been acquainted in 1764 , when on a visit at Yeovil , where Mr . Thomas was then minister . Dr . Weld was the immediate successor of the learned Dr . Leland , and it is a remarkable fact , that the ministry of Dr . Leland , Dr . Weld , and Mr . Taylor , embraced a period of more than 150 years .

    Whilst a student at Exeter , he contracted a warm and lasting friendship with James White , Esq ., afterwards a barrister , with whom he continued to correspond until the death of the latter , in the year 1825 , and whose steady attachment , notwithstanding their

    different professions and pursuits , was a source of high enjoyment to the pure and benevolent mind of our venerable friend . Dis . Enfield and Estlin , too , may be mentioned as kindred minds , whose correspondence often delighted him .

    Mr . Taylor was eminently fitted to give and to receive enjoyment from society . His cheerful temper , his frank and cordial manners , his animated conversation , enlivened by humour and enriched with anecdote , rendered him a delightful and desired companion . But he never forgot , uor could any of his friends or associates be betrayed into forgetting , the respect due to the character of a Christian minister . No . one ever felt under improper restraint iu his presence ; on the contrary , he was the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 857, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/61/