Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor

25 December 1865 – 6 June 1949

**Mary Geraldine Taylor**, nee Guinness (born 1865 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England; died 1949), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and author of many missionary biographies regarding the history of the *China Inland Mission* (later *Overseas Missionary Fellowship*, now *OMF International*). She was the daughter of the author Rev. [Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910)][1] and [Fanny Emma Fitzgerald Guinness (1831-1898)][2]. In 1894 she married Dr. [Frederick Howard Taylor (1862-1946)][3]. Together they authored several books as “Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor”. [1]: htt