Richard Vickerman Taylor was born in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

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, on 10 October 1830, the son of John Taylor and his wife Ann Vickerman. He was married twice, first to Caroline Franks and then to Elizabeth Ann Knowles. In 1856 he became Senior Classical Master at

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; and two years later he moved to the same position at

Wesley College, Sheffield Wesley College, a school to educate the sons of the laity, opened in 1838 in new buildings designed by William Flockton on Glossop Road, Sheffield, England. It was founded by Rev. Samuel Dousland Waddy (1804–1876) to "supply a generally sup ...

. While there he gained a

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degree from

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. He also served as an Assistant Master at

Leeds Grammar School Leeds Grammar School was an independent school founded 1552 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally a male-only school, in August 2005 it merged with Leeds Girls' High School to form The Grammar School at Leeds. The two schools physically ...

. In 1863 he was ordained deacon, taking his priest's orders the following year. He held a number of curacies, including St Barnabas,

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, Wortley, Brightside near

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and

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. In 1878 he became Vicar of Melbecks,

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. He died at the age of 83 years, on 8 July 1914, at his home, The Mount,

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. A Fellow of the

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and a member of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association, he also published and contributed to publications on the history of

Publications

All listed in the

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Public Catalogue: *SAYWELL. Joseph Lemuel ''The Parochial History of Ackworth, Yorks''., with archæological, antiquarian, and biographical notes & records (With an introduction by R. V. Taylor) James Atkinson & Son, Pontefract; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: London, 1894. * ''Anecdotæ Eboracenses. Yorkshire Anecdotes; or, remarkable incidents in the lives of celebrated Yorkshire men and women, etc.'' Whittaker & Co.: London, 1883. * ''Anecdota Eboracensia. Yorkshire anecdotes, etc.'' (Second series) Whittaker & Co.: London, 1887. * ''The Biographia Leodiensis; or, Biographical Sketches of the Worthies of Leeds and neighbourhood, from the Norman Conquest to the present time, etc.'' London, 1865–67. * ''The Ecclesiæ Leodienses; or, Historical and Architectural Sketches of the Churches of Leeds and neighbourhood, etc.'' London, 1875. {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Richard Vickerman 1830 births Alumni of King's College London Clergy from Leeds 19th-century English historians 19th-century English Anglican priests 1914 deaths Schoolteachers from Yorkshire