Samuel Taylor (bishop)

Samuel Mumford Taylor (25 August 1859- 30 November 1929^[1]) was the second Bishop of Kingston.

Taylor was educated at University College London^[2] and ordained in 1885. After a curacy at St John the Evangelist's Leeds he became the first vicar of St Aidan's (Bishop Woodford Memorial) Leeds;^[3] He was then a canon residentiary and the precentor at Southwark Cathedral, then Archdeacon of Southwark.^[4] His penultimate post, until his resignation in 1921, was as a suffragan bishop. Finally he was appointed to lead the worship for St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.^[5]