Richard Taylor (born 1967) is a British author, broadcaster and practising lawyer best known for his books, television and radio programmes on Christian imagery, symbolism, history and law.
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Richard Taylor (born 1967) is a British author, broadcaster and practising lawyer best known for his books, television and radio programmes on Christian imagery, symbolism, history and law.
Taylor was born in London, where he attended Highgate School. He took degrees in English at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and law at the London School of Economics. [1]
Taylor lives in Ranmoor, Sheffield, with his daughter (born 2001). [2] He was widowed in 2016. He is a partner specialising in technology and intellectual property at law firm DLA Piper in Sheffield, [3] and until 2012 was the IP/IT columnist for the Law Society Gazette .>
Taylor is also the Vice-President of the National Churches Trust. [4]
His book How to Read a Church has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into five languages. [5] He is the writer and presenter of the six-part BBC Four series Churches: How to Read Them broadcast in September and October 2010. [6] Since 2014 he has been a guest presenter for BBC Songs of Praise , presenting items on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, the Brontë family, the UK patron saints, Henry V, and the birthplaces of the Christian demoninations. [7]
He wrote and presented Still Ringing After All These Years: A Short History of Bells [8] and Pugin: God's own architect (2012), [9] also on BBC Four, and Copyright or Wrong on BBC Radio 4. [10]
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