| Admin_History | Jeffrey Taylor was born on 15 October 1903 in Coatbridge. He carried out his two years of regency at Stonyhurst College, then spent much of his life at St Aloysius, Glasgow, where he arrived from St Mary’s Whifflet in 1914.
He entered the noviciate in 1920 and became the Head of Mathematics after his tertianship. He was ordained on 6 September 1935. In 1940, he returned to Stonyhurst as a priest where he stayed for ten years teaching the top certificate and scholarship classes. In this period he also worked with the Air Training Corps where he instructed boys in navigation. In 1950, Jeffrey returned to St Aloysius where he remained until 1973.
Throughout his teaching life he helped in parishes and was best known in the dioceses of Galloway, Argyll and the Isles and on his retirement from teaching he gave his time and energy to these pastoral duties working in places including Oban, Morar, Lochgilphead, Campbelltown and Arran. He gave his last years to parish duties in the neighbourhood of St Aloysius, frequently serving as chaplain to the Servite holiday home for the severely disabled at Leuchie.
Jeffrey died on the 5 December 1984, having been taken ill suddenly. |