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Rev . James Tayler . However objectionable it may be to render pages intended for the public eye a receptacle for the effusions of private sorrow , and to exhibit to the world a portraiture of excellencies which were not known , and which cannot be recognized , beyond the narrow limits of the domestic circle ; yet some ampler notice seems properly demanded of the character and early circumstances of those individuals whom death has removed from
stations of public usefulness , and of whom , numbers that honoured them for their personal qualities and professional ability , will be pleased to trace a faithful delineation in the brief sketch which attempts to record their virtues . Under this impression , we furnish a short
biographical account of the excellent man whose death we simply announced in a former number ; purposing to describe , with as much exactness as feelings of strong affection and deep regret will allow , the characteristic features of his mind and moral character .
Mr . Tayler was born in the city of Westminster , February 15 th , 1765 . His father was a substantial and prosperous tradesman , of whom it has been honourably recorded , that his habits of beneficence kept pace with his improving circumstances , to the diminution of the amount of fortune which he might otherwise have bequeathed to his children .
His mother , whose maiden name was Hugou , was of French extraction . On the revocation of the edict of Nantz , her mother , who was a Huguenot , took refuge in England , accompanied in her flight by a female attendant , who was remembered in the family as having lost an eye in a struggle with the soldiery to retain her Bible .
The subject of this memoir early discovered a fondness for literature , which at one time suggested the idea of binding him apprentice to a bookseller . But the project was overruled , and he was brought up to his father ' s business . His early bias , however , displayed itself in a
strong and growing desire to engage in the Christian ministry . In compliance with his father ' s wishes , he so far controuled his inclination as to renounce all present thoughts of a change of life ; though the hope was still entertained , and , by close , solitary study , when the
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hours of business were concluded , he endeavoured to prepare himself for ultimately carrying his wishes into effect . On the death of his father in 1784 , the Rev . Dr . Andrew Kippis became his guardian ; and by his judicious assistance and advice , after continuing some few years longer in trade , he was at length enabled to execute his purpose of devoting
himself to the ministry , aud was entered as a » student in the New College , Hackney r about the year 1788 . Domestic occurrences prevented him from completing his course ; aud for some time he prosecuted his studies in private , under the direction of his friend Dr . Kippis . The very high estimate which he had formed of the qualifications for the pastoral office , rendered him so averse from
engaging prematurely in its public duties , that it was conceived he had abandoned the design of ever becoming a preacher . At the recommendation of Dr . Kippis , he officiated at Nottingham , as a supply , for several months , in 1793 or 1794 ; after which he preached for some time at Walthamstow , where , in 1795 , he married Elizabeth , daughter of Mr . John Venning , of that place . In the beginning
of 1797 , he succeeded the Rev . Thomas Jervis , as sole minister of St . Thomas ' s Meeting-house , Southwark ; and maintained a most pleasing and harmonious connexion with his Hock , till his final removal to Nottingham in 1802 . Of the High-Pavement Society in that place he continued for nearly thirty years the faithful and devoted pastor , till the day of his death , May 15 , 1831 .
In the spring of 1808 , the expenses of a large and increasing family induced him to undertake the task of tuition . The duties of this new mode of life he discharged , at the cost of his own health and spirits , with exemplary diligence and scrupulous exactness till the summer of 1825 ; when , his sons beins ; all settled in the world , and his property
increased by some accession on the death of a sister , he retired from his laborious occupation , in the hope of devoting his remaining years to the professional duties and pursuits which he loved , and from which he had felt it a serious grievance to be so long debarred . But many years of peaceful enjoyment were not in reserve for him . His constitution , which from his birth hud been peculiar , and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/57/
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