Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Christ's Hospital has a library such as inquired after by Mr. Weld Taylor. The late Mr. Thackeray, of the Priory, Lewisham (who died about two years ago), bequeathed to this school his valuable library of books on general literature for the use of the boys. Previously to this bequest the collection of books was small.
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DR. JOHN TAYLOR.
(Vol. i., p. 466.)
My attention has been caught by some remarks in the early volumes of your work upon my learned ancestor Dr. John Taylor, minister at Norwich, and subsequently divinity tutor at Warrington. Whatever opinion may have been attributed to Dr. Parr concerning Dr. Taylor, this I know, that on revisiting Norwich he desired my father (the Dr.'s grandson) to show him the house inhabited by him while he was the minister of the Octagon Chapel.
Dr. Parr looked serious and solemn, and in his usual energetic manner pronounced, "He was a great scholar."
Dr. John Taylor was buried at Kirkstead[[4]], Lancashire, where his tomb is distinguished by the following simple inscription: