TAYLOR, EDMUND HENRY (1855-1927) was born at Laneast, Cornwall, and educated at Dobwalls academy and Cheltenham (where he studied homiletics and divinity). Ordained at Torquay, he arrived in New Zealand in 1882 and spent 40 years in a continuous pastorate on the Thames goldfields. A firm temperance advocate, he was a foundation member of the New Zealand Temperance Alliance (and many years vice-president), 11 years grand chief templar I.O.G.T., and president and some time secretary of the Prohibition league. He was also for a few years on the Thames licensing bench. Taylor was chairman for a while of the deep-level mining board. He was elected M.H.R. for Thames on the retirement of McGowan, and sat 1909-11, being defeated by T. W. Rhodes in 1911 and 1914. Some years later he was appointed to the Western Springs Congregational Church in Auckland. There he took a keen interest in the boy scout movement, as a commissioned chaplain in the Ponsonby troop. He died on 30 Sep 1927.

Who's Who N.Z., 1924.

Reference: Volume 2, page 189

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