TAYLOR (Dr. John), a learned dissenting minister, born in Lancashire. He settled first at Kirkcaldy in Lincolns-
shire, where he preached to a small congregation, and taught a grammar school for near 20 years. Afterward he removed to Norwich, where he preached many years in great repute, until he was invited to superintend the academy formed at Warrington in Lancashire: but a few idle differences on formal punctilios and uncertain doctrines kindled into such a flame there, as subjected him to much scurrility and ill treatment, and endangered the very being of the academy. He died in 1761; and among several other judicious performances, his Hebrew and English Concordance, 2 vols. folio, will remain a monument of his critical skill and indefatigable industry.
Tarior-Bird. See MOTACILLA.