Son of an Ang­li­can priest, Tay­lor at­tend­ed Christ Church, Ox­ford. He was then or­dained in the Church of En­gland and be­came pre­cent­or of Bris­tol Ca­thed­ral, and lat­er Sal­is­bu­ry Ca­thed­ral. Dur­ing World War II, he was the Brit­ish Broad­cast­ing Cor­por­a­tion’s pro­duc­er of Re­li­gious Broad­cast­ing and, while sta­tioned in Ab­bot’s Leigh, he wrote the famous tune of same name. In 1953, when the Roy­al School of Church Mu­sic moved from Can­ter­bu­ry to Ad­ding­ton Place, he be­came its first War­den. For ma­ny years he served as a pro­pri­e­tor of Hymns An­cient & Mo­dern, play­ing a ma­jor ed­it­or­i­al role in com­pil­ing the two sup­ple­ments and The New Stan­dard Edition.

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Music

1. Abbot’s Leigh