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 THE ARCHDEACON OF LIVERPOOL 355

John s, Liverpool, where he laboured from 1851 to 1 86 1 with increasing acceptability, in spite of the fact that he had to contend with a large Roman Catholic population. The crowded congregations he drew are mentioned in Picton s Annals of Liverpool. From there Dr Taylor proceeded to the incumbency of St Silas, Liverpool, to settle down to another nine years of meritorious work. The following twenty years witnessed his en deavours at St Chrysostom s, Everton ; but several years before he had terminated his mission there he had been installed an Honorary Canon of Liverpool by Bishop Ryle, and had been made the recipient of a testimonial from his fellow- Protestants in the city, in recognition of the manner in which he had continued to champion their cause after the removal of Dr M Neile. This testimonial took the form of a portrait of himself, a silver card tray and a purse pretty heavily weighted. From 1886 to 1895 ne was Rural Dean of Walton, and from 1889 to 1895 Archdeacon of Warrington. Meanwhile, he had crowned his brilliant University career at Dublin with the M.A. degree, LL.D. of Dublin, the D.C.L. of Oxford and D.D. of Dublin. As long ago as 1887 he had acted as chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool, and his subsequent appoint ment, in 1895, as Archdeacon of Liverpool was considered to be a most suitable choice, bringing him, as it did, into the very heart of the Diocese.

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