Joseph Taylor (died 19 November 1859,

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), was a

London Missionary Society The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed tradition, Reformed in outlook, with ...

missionary in

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

. Joseph Taylor may have been the son of the first LMS missionary in Gujarat,

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M.D., later surgeon in Bombay. He was father of

J. V. S. Taylor Rev. Joseph van Someran Taylor (Bellary, 3 July 1820 – Edinburgh, 2 June 1881), known more commonly as J. V. S. Taylor, was a Scottish Christian missionary and writer of Gujarati language. He made the earliest attempt among westerners at writin ...

of the Irish Presbyterian Mission, translator of the Bible into Gujarati, and grandfather of

George Pritchard Taylor George Pritchard Taylor (born Cambay, 1854; date of death unknown) was an Indian-born grammarian and numismatist of Northern Irish family origin. He was son of J. V. S. Taylor, translator of the Bible into Gujarati, grandson of Joseph Taylor (mis ...

the grammarian of

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. He was based in

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where a station had been founded by

John Hands John Hands (5 December 1780 – 30 June 1864 in Dublin) was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in India and, with William Reeve, translator of one of the first Bible translations into Kannada (1820). Hands founded the mission statio ...

from 1812 together with Hands and William Reeve,Missionary register: Volume 7 - Page 37 Church Missionary Society - 1819 BELLARY. A Town in the Mysore. 1810. John Hands, William Reeve, Joseph Taylor. There are Seven Native Schools at this Station, containing about 300 Children. The Scriptures are taught in them all. It is intended to establish more. then

Belgaum Belgaum (Kannada ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bēḷagāma'', ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters ...

from September 1820 till his retirement to Bombay in 1852, where he lived until his death in 1859.

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Translators of the Bible into Gujarati 1859 deaths Protestant missionaries in India Year of birth missing English Protestant missionaries Missionary linguists {{Christianity-bio-stub