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Name: TAYLOR, William Ernest (Rev.)
Birth Date: 25.1.1856 Worcester
Death Date: 2.10.1927 Bath
Nationality: British
First Date: 1880
Profession: Church Missionary Society missionary in Mombasa
Area: Freretown
Married: 21.4.1892 Catherine Tesseyman b. 1864 Hull, d. 8 June 1959
Children: Bernard William (2.12.1894 Mombasa, bapt at Msa 27.1.1895); Ernest Ridley (16.8.1887 Tunbridge Wells-1980 Kidderminster); Arthur (1900 Egypt); Stephen (1903)
Author: 'African Aphorisms or Saws from Swahili-land' 1891
Book Reference: Hobley, Watt, Thomson, Tucker, Hall, North, EA Diary 1903, CMS, EAHB 1904
School: Hertford College Oxford
General Information:
Hobley The learned Dr. Taylor came to live on the Ndia Kuu, Mombasa, with his wife, a charming couple.
North - CMS BEA - aged 24, dep. for EA 29/7/1880; first at Nyanza, later at Mombasa & other missions in EA; arr. Zanzibar with wife 30/6/1892; Mombasa Town Mission; home leave 1896; did not return to EA
CMS 1880 - Age 24. Of Worcester. Cathedral School; Hertford College Oxford (Scho.) 3rd Class Mod. 1876; BA 1878; MA 1890. Also at Edinburgh Univ. and Cowgate Dispensary, Edinburgh. 1880, July 4 Deacon by Bishop of Mauritius for Bishop of London1885, May 31 Priest by Bishop Hannington. 1880, July 29 to E. Eq. Africa - Nyanza - Mission; 1881 transferred to Mombasa; 1884, Feb to England; Nov 5 to E. Eq. Africa with Bishop Hannington; 1885 Kisulutini; 1886 returned to Nyanza Mission - Uyui; 1887 to Mombasa and Giryama - Itineration; 1888 Mombasa, Kisulitini, Frere Town, Shimba, Chaga and Giryama - Itineration; 1889, Oct 27 to England; 1892, June 12 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Mombasa …. Married 1892, April 21 Catherine Tesseyman. [Notes by Roy Dunstan] 1895 Nov 23 Mrs Taylor to UK; 1896 Oct 10 to UK; 1898 Dec 4 left Naples for Cairo where he carried out Swahili translation work; 1900 Sept 14 to UK; 1902 Apr 10 to Khartoum; 1903 Oct 3 to UK; 1904 Oct 4 connexion closed; 1927 Oct 2 died in Bath
Thomson - in a characteristic fashion, performed the varied duties of doctor and school superintendent.
Tucker - no one in the Mission in 1895 who knew Giriama better.
Hall - Missionaries at Mombasa photo 1895 - Mr & Mrs Taylor
Frederick Jackson, Early Days in East Africa, 1930 He was very studious and became the authority on classical Swahili. He would work from early morning till night sitting in a stuffy room with two or three old Swahili scholars from Mombasa. He ate practically nothing and was of course a teetotaller and he simply lived for his work. Afterwards he was appointed to accuracy in the west of England.