Rev. W.H. Naylor
William Herbert Naylor was born in Noyan, Quebec, on May 5, 1846. The few available records about him indicate that he was married in Noyan in 1872, died in Phillipsburg, Quebec, in 1918, and attended post-secondary school at McGill University in Montreal. Naylor likely remained in Quebec for almost all of his life, and it is difficult to ascertain when, if ever, he came to Newfoundland. Naylor was ordained in 1873 and served as the curate of St. Armand West from 1873 to 1874. In 1894, he became the archdeacon of Clarendon; in fact, the Queen Elizabeth II Library possesses the microform of a text written by Naylor and Arthur Henry Moore entitled History of the Church in Clarendon. It also has a microform of another of Naylor’s works, Thoughts and Prayers for Communicants. While these texts exist only in microforms, three physical texts in the Queen Elizabeth Library bear his name (written as “W. H. Naylor“), followed by what appear to be three different spellings of Farnham, another city in Quebec. Since Naylor died in 1918, before Memorial University was established, it can be presumed that he did not directly donate the texts—it is likely that they were donated by someone to whom Naylor passed on the texts or who simply came to possess them. At the very least, one can know from whom they originally came.
Donation List:
Trench, Richard Chenevix. Synonyms of the New Testament. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., Ltd. 1894.
Le Courayer, Pierre François and Edward Craddock Ratcliff. A Dissertation on the Validity of the Ordinations of the English, and of the Succession of the Bishops of the Anglican Church. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1844.
