Richard Taylor (1620 – 30 November 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.
Taylor was the son of Richard Taylor, counsellor at law, of Grymsbury, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Boteler daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire.
[1] He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 17 June 1636 aged 16 and was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1637.
[3] He served in the Royalist army in the Civil War under Sir Ralph Hopton without apparently any military rank.
At the Restoration it was written that he had "continued faithful in the late war to the surrender of Oxford, and hath been several times since imprisoned for his fidelity to your Majesty".