Ralph Taylor (1647 – 26 December 1722) was an English clergyman, nonjuror and sometime chaplain to the court of James II at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
[1] Educated Trinity College, Oxford, matriculated 22 March 1666 – 1667; BA 1670; MA 1673; BD 1682; DD 1686.
[2][3] Some of the entries in the parish book of Severn Stoke written in Taylor's hand suggest that he had no great respect or honour for James II: Malum omen [bad day].
Little is known of his time there beyond that he attended the funeral of Denis Granville, that he owned one or more telescopes,[6] and that he was given two gold sleeve buttons by James II.
Taylor was consecrated bishop at Gray's Inn, 25 January 1721, by the nonjuring non-usager bishops, Samuel Hawes, Nathaniel Spinckes and Henry Gandy,[10] in the presence of the Earl of Winchilsea, Robert Cotton, Revd Thomas Bell and John Blackbourne.