Thomas Rawson Taylor

Thomas Rawson Taylor, son of the Rev. Thomas Taylor, sometime Congregational Minister at Bradford, Yorkshire, was born at Ossett, near Wakefield, May 9th. 1807, and educated at the Free School, Bradford, and the Leaf Square Academy, Manchester. From the age of 15 to 18 he was engaged, first in a merchant's, and then in a printer's office. Influenced by strong religious desires, he entered the Airedale Independent College at 18 to prepare for the Congregational ministry. His first and only …