Taylor, Thomas Rawson
Taylor, Thomas Rawson
Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/26896473
Born: 1807
Died: 1835
Faith: Congregationalist
Note: Thomas Rawson Taylor was a Congregationalist minister and hymn writer. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Taylor, some time Congregational Minister at Bradford, Yorkshire. He was born at Ossett, near Wakefield, May 9, 1807, and educated at the Free School, Bradford, and the Leaf Square Academy, Manchester. He died March 7, 1835. A volume of his Memoirs and Select Remains, by W. S. Matthews, in which were several poems and a few hymns, was published in 1836. His best known hymn is 'I'm but a stranger here'.