Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at
King's College School, and
St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA as 9th
wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of
Coheleth; in 1877
Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, an elaborate edition of the
Pirḳe Abot (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts. Taylor discovered the Jewish source of the
Didache in his
Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 1886, and published also an
Essay on the Theology of the Didache, 1889. Taylor took a great interest in
Solomon Schechter's work on
Cairo Geniza, and the
genizah fragments presented to the
University of Cambridge are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection. He was joint editor with Schechter of
The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 1899. He published separately
Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, 1900. He wrote also several works on geometry and participated in the creation and running of the journal
Messenger of Mathematics. On 19 October 1907 he married Margaret Sophia Dillon, daughter of the Hon. Conrad Dillon. He died in Nuremberg on 12 August 1908 and is buried in the
Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge. ==References==