The son of John Tayler, he was born at Leytonstone, Essex, 16 Sep. 1797 and baptised at St Botolph Bishopsgate 11 Nov. following.
William Hodgson Cole, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner on 23 Oct. 1815, graduating B.A.
[1] Taking holy orders, he was licensed to a curacy at Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1821, where he adopted strong Protestant views and a rooted antipathy to Roman Catholicism.
He left Hadleigh in 1826, and successively served, each for a short time, curacies in Kent, in Surrey, and in Hampshire.
His numerous books and tracts consisted either of warnings against the errors of the Catholics, or of manuals of religious instruction for the young.