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Robert Bruce Taylor
b. 1869
A Scottish-born minister and educator, he led Queen’s University through the difficult years around the First World War and helped guide its growth in Canada. He also wrote and arranged books on religion and world geography, bringing broad subjects to general readers.
1 Audiobook
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
by John H. (John Huston) Finley, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Charles Foster Kent, Paul Elmer More, Robert Bruce Taylor
About the author
Born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1869, Robert Bruce Taylor studied at the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, and later at Marburg and Göttingen in Germany. He served in ministry in Scotland and England before moving to Canada in 1911 to take charge of St. Paul’s Church in Montreal.
Taylor is best remembered as the ninth Principal of Queen’s University, serving from 1917 to 1930, and as the last clergyman to hold that role. During a demanding period shaped by war and its aftermath, he was part of the university’s effort to steady itself and move forward.
He was also a writer and editor whose books included works on biblical literature and Lands and Peoples: The World in Color. His career brought together religion, education, and publishing, making him a figure of interest both in Canadian academic history and in early twentieth-century nonfiction writing.