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Robert Bruce Taylor
b. 1869
A Scottish-born minister, scholar, and university leader, he wrote on religion and higher education with the perspective of someone deeply involved in both. His work is closely tied to Queen’s University and to early 20th-century intellectual life in Canada.
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 1869 in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Robert Bruce Taylor was educated at the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, and later studied in Marburg and Göttingen in Germany. He served in ministry in Scotland and England before moving to Canada in 1911 to lead St. Paul’s Church in Montreal.
He is especially remembered at Queen’s University, where he became the ninth Principal and served from 1917 to 1930. Alongside his academic and church work, he wrote books including Queen's and Canada and also arranged editions of Ancient Hebrew Literature.
Taylor’s writing reflects the interests that shaped his life: religion, education, and the role of universities in public life. He died in the mid-1950s; some records list 1954, while Queen’s Encyclopedia gives 1955.