Richard Taylor (mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje)

Richard Taylor FGS (21 Maris 1805 – 10 Oktoba 1873)  ɗan mishan ne na Coci (CMS) a New Zealand . An haife shi a ranar 21 ga Maris 1805 a Letwell, Yorkshire, Ingila, ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya hudu na Richard Taylor da matarsa, Catherine Spencer. 

Ya halarci Kwalejin Queens, Cambridge kuma BA kammala karatun BA a 1828, an naɗa shi firist a ranar 8 ga Nuwamba 1829. [1] A cikin 1835, an ba shi MA kuma an nada shi mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje a New Zealand don CMS.

 Ƙungiyar Wa'azi na Ikilisiya 
Ya kasance a lokacin sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Waitangi a ranar 6 ga Fabrairu 1840. A cikin 1840 an nada shi a matsayin shugaban makarantar a Te Waimate mission,  sannan a cikin 1842 an tura shi zuwa tashar CMS mission a Whanganui. A shekara ta 1844 cocin tubali da Revd John Mason ya gina bai isa ba don biyan bukatun ikilisiya kuma an lalata shi a girgizar ƙasa. An gina sabon coci a karkashin kulawar Revd Richard Taylor tare da katako da kowane pā ya bayar a kan kogi daidai da girmansa da yawan Kiristoci. Tafiyensa a matsayin mai wa'azi a ƙasashen waje ya kai ga yankunan Taranaki da Taupō zuwa arewacin Whanganui .  A watan Maris na shekara ta 1846 ya karbi bakuncin Gwamna George Grey lokacin da ya ziyarci Whanganui.

A cikin 1848, Taylor ya rubuta A Leaf daga Tarihin Halitta na New Zealand (1848). 

A shekara ta 1849 ya koma Whanganui ta hanyar Taupō daga taron mishaneri na CMS a Tauranga .  Tafiye-tafiyen mishan ya haɗa da tafiya zuwa Kogin Whanganui zuwa ƙauyuka kamar Pipiriki  da kuma Lake Rotoaira a gindin Dutsen Tongariro .   Ya ba da sunan ƙauyuka a gefen Kogin Whanganui Ātene (Athens), Koriniti (Corinth), Hiruhārama (Jerusalem) da Rānana (London)  kuma an sanya masa sunan unguwar Wanganui ta Taylorville.

Bayan mutuwarsa a ranar 19 ga Oktoba 1873, ɗansa, Revd Basil Kirke Taylor, ya karɓi aikin Whanganui.

Ya rubuta littattafai da yawa game da yanayin halitta da al'adu na New Zealand a lokacinsa.

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