Walter Taylor (mathematician)

Walter Taylor (c. 1700 – 23 February 1743/44) was a Trinity College, Cambridge mathematics tutor who coached 83 students in the 1724–1743 period. He later was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek.

Walter Taylor
Born	c. 1700 Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	23 February 1743/44
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician and classicist
Institutions	Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors	Robert Smith
Notable students	Stephen Whisson

He was the son of John Taylor, Vicar of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. He matriculated in 1716 from Wakefield School, Yorkshire. Taylor was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity on 7 April 1716.^[1]

Robert Smith was Taylor's Cambridge tutor.

Timeline

• 1717 Scholar
• 1719/20 BA
• 1723 MA
• 1736 BD
• 1722 Fellow of Trinity
• 1726–44 Regius Professor of Greek
• 1725 Ordained deacon
• 1726/7 Ordained priest
• 1743/4 buried at Tuxford

Notes

1. "Taylor, Walter (TLR716W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

External links

• Walter Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project