Walter Taylor (c. 1700 – 23 February 1743/44) was a Trinity College, Cambridge mathematics tutor who coached 83 students in the 1724–1743 period. He later was appointed as the Regius Professor of Greek.
He was the son of John Taylor, Vicar of Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. He matriculated in 1716 from Wakefield School, Yorkshire. Taylor was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity on 7 April 1716.
Robert Smith was Taylor's Cambridge tutor.
Timeline
1717 Scholar
1719/20 BA
1723 MA
1736 BD
1722 Fellow of Trinity
1726–44 Regius Professor of Greek
1725 Ordained deacon
1726/7 Ordained priest
1743/4 buried at Tuxford