TAYLOR, William Mackergo, clergyman, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, 23 October, 1829. He was graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1849, and at the theological seminary of the United Presbyterian church in Edinburgh in 1852, and after officiating for two years as pastor of the small parish of Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, removed in 1855 to Liverpool, England, to form a new Presbyterian congregation. There he gathered a large congregation of merchants, mechanics, and trades-people. He visited the United States in 1871 and preached in Brooklyn, New York, with such effectiveness that in the following year he was called to occupy the pulpit of the Broadway Tabernacle in New York city, as the successor of the Reverend Joseph P. Thompson. He received the degree of D. D. from both Yale and Amherst in 1872, and that of LL.D. from Princeton in 1883. He was lecturer at Yale seminary in 1876 and 1886, and at Princeton seminary in 1880. In 1876-'80 Dr. Taylor edited the "Christian at Work." He is the author of "Life Truths," a volume of sermons (Liverpool, 1862); "The Miracles : Helps to Faith, not Hindrances" (Edinburgh, 1865): "The Lost Found and the Wanderer Welcomed " (1870) ; "Memoir of the Reverend Matthew Dickie" (Bristol, 18'72) ; "Prayer and Business" (New York, 1873);" David, King of Israel " (1875); "Elijah, the Prophet" (1876) ; "The Ministry of the Word," containing lectures delivered at Yale (1876); "Songs in the Night " (1877) ; "Peter, the Apostle "(1877); "Daniel, the Beloved " (1878); "Moses, the Lawgiver" (1879) ; "The Gospel Miracles in their Relation to Christ and Christianity," consisting of his Princeton lectures (1880) ; "The Limitations of Life, and other Sermons " (1880); " Paul, the Missionary" (1882) ; "Contrary Winds, and other Sermons" (1883) ; "Jesus at the Well" (1884) ; "John Knox : a Biography" (1885) ; "Joseph, the Prime Minister" (1886); " The Parables of Our Saviour Expounded and Illustrated" (1886) ; and "The Scottish Pulpit" (1887).