, a tutor at the Daventry Academy, Taylor was a Unitarian minister in Ilminster but he became a Quaker and opened a school in Bristol. After the death of his wife in 1793, Taylor and his young son moved to Manchester and ran a school in Salford. His will describes him as a dissenting minister of Bradford. https://www.unitarianhistory.org.uk/ministerobit18004.html TAYLOR John. B 1754. Daventry Academy. Min 1783-1788 at Walmsley. Became a Quaker. D June 1817. CR:1834.742. GEE. JH.224, 549..