| Biography | The Rt Rev John Taylor Smith KCB CVO DD (186028 March 1938) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Taylor-Smith was born in Kendal[1] in 1860 and ordained in 1886. He was Curate of St Pauls, Penge and then Sub-Dean of St Georges Cathedral, Freetown before his elevation to the Episcopate. From 1901 to 1925 he was Chaplain-General to the Forces. He was appointed a Companion of the Royal Victorian Order in 1906, a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1921 and created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1925. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 28 March 1938 |