Background
Taunton was born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England.
Taunton was born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England.
He succeeded in entering the Institute of Saint Andrew, founded by the Catholic convert, George Bampfield, at Barnet. But again his health prevented him from remaining. Finally, he joined the congregation of the Oblates founded by Cardinal Manning at Bayswater, and in 1883 he was ordained priest.
Three years later he left the Oblates, and went on the mission at Stoke Newington in North London.
Here he built a new temporary church, which was opened in 1888. But shortly afterwards he received serious injury by the accidental fall of some scaffolding, which brought on partial paralysis, and permanently incapacitated him from active work.
He continued, however, to be busy with his pen. He was a man of wide reading, and wrote on a large number of subjects.
Foreign a while he lived at Bruges where he founded and edited "Saint Luke"s Magazine".
But it had only a brief existence, and having partially recovered his health, he returned to England and devoted himself to literature. His death took place somewhat suddenly, in London, from heart failure, at the age of fifty.