Draft:Joseph Taylor (mining engineer): Difference between revisions

Taylor was born in [[Audley, Staffordshire]] in 1858, the son of George Taylor and Martha Dodd. His father was variously described as a farmer and a coal miner.{{cite book |last1=Mercer |first1=R.D. |title=Mine Alone: The Unrelenting Struggle of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire for Recognition in Colonial New Zealand |date=2007 |publisher=Butterfly Creek Books |location=Wellington |isbn=9780473120115}}{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Andrew Paul |title=Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand |date=2023 |publisher=Massey University Press |isbn=9781991016379}}

In June 1884, he left Barnard Castle and became minister the Unitarian Church in South St Mungo Street, Glasgow.{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=George Eyre |title=Vestiges of Protestant Dissent: Being Lists of Ministers, Sacramental Plate, Registers, Antiquities, and Other Matters Pertaining to Most of the Churches (and a Few Others) Included in the National Conference of Unitarian, Liberal Christian, Free Christian, Presbyterian, and Other Non-subscribing or Kindred Congregations |date=1897 |publisher=F & E Gibbons | location=Liverpool|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AeoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q=%22joseph%20taylor%22&f=false}} In 1885, St Mungo’s Church passed a resolution that Joseph’s services be dispensed with. His career as a Unitarian minister ended shortly afterwards. He and his family returned to Audley, Staffordshire where he resumed an interest in geology and mining engineering.