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John Taylor ( June 22, 1704 - April 4, 1766), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury.
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, in 1734 registrar of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders, became rector of Lawford in Essex in 1751, and 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, e.g. 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 DemadesDemades (c. 380 318 BC), Athenian orator and demagogue. He was originally of humble position, and was employed at one time as a common sailor, but he rose partly by his eloquence and partly by his unscrupulous character to a prominent position at Athens., 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 ApolloApollo ( Greek: , Apollon is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt). In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated wi at DelosThe island of Delos ( Greek: , Dhilos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo in 374 BCCenturies: 5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC Decades: 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 379 BC 378 BC 377 BC 376 BC 375 BC 374 BC 373 BC 372 BC 371 BC 370 BC 369 BC Events Births Deaths Evag. His Elements of Civil Law (1755) also deserves notice. It was severely attacked by WarburtonWilliam Warburton ( December 24, 1698 June 7, 1779), was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759. He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and N 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.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Taylor, John
Taylor, John
