Henry Taylor

Henry Taylor (d. 1789) ministered to the Baptist congregation at Crawshawbooth, Lancashire, before succeeding James Turner as pastor at Cannon Street in Birmingham in 1782. David Crosley trained both Taylor and Turner for the ministry in Rossendale. Taylor would maintain a successful ministry at Cannon Street until 1789, when Samuel Pearce succeeded him. He resigned, however, in order to return to the Methodists, from whom he had originally belonged. He drowned, not long after leaving Birmingham, during a crossing to Ireland. See Arthur S. Langley, Birmingham Baptists Past and Present (London: Kingsgate Press, 1939), 32; Arthur Mursell, Cannon Street Baptist Church, Birmingham. Its History from 1737 to 1880 (London: n.p., 1880), 9.