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Encyclopedia > Thomas Edward Taylor

Thomas Edward Taylor, PC (March 17, 1811-February 3, 1883), was a British Conservative politician. Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... Joyce Rollins is a lesbian. ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom and the most successful party in political history based on election victories. ...


Taylor was the eldest son of Reverend Edward Taylor, fourth son of Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective (whose eldest son was created Marquess of Headfort in 1800). His mother was Marianne St Leger, daughter of Hon. Richard St Leger. He was educated at Eton and commissioned into the 6th Dragoons Guards in 1829. Taylor achieved the rank of Captain in 1838 but retired from the army in 1846. In 1841 he was elected Member of Parliament for Dublin County, a seat he would hold for the rest of his life. Taylor was an Opposition Whip from 1855 to 1858, and then served as a Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) from 1858 to 1859 in the second administration of the Earl of Derby. When the Conservatives returned to power in 1866, Derby appointed Taylor Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, a post he held until 1868. He then served briefly under Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from November to December 1868. The latter year he was also admitted to the Privy Council. In the 1874 General Election Taylor decisively defeated Charles Stewart Parnell, and was again appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by Disraeli, which he remained until the Conservatives fell from power in 1880. Marquess of Headfort is a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1800 for the Earl of Bective. ... 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a prestigious and internationally known independent school for boys, which is often described as the most famous school in the world. ... Dragoon guards was, in some armies, particularly the British Army, the designation used to refer to heavy cavalry regiments from the 18th century onwards. ... 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In 1862 Taylor married Louisa Tollemache, daughter of Hugh Francis Tollemache. They had five children, three sons and two daughters. Taylor died on February 3, 1883, aged 71. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Preceded by:
John Wilson-Patten		 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1868		 Succeeded by:
The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye
Preceded by:
John Bright		 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1874–1880		 Succeeded by:
John Bright

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the British government. ... Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, (June 21, 1826 – February 12, 1902) was a prominent member of Victorian society. ... John Bright John Bright (November 16, 1811–March 27, 1889), was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. ... The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the British government. ... John Bright John Bright (November 16, 1811–March 27, 1889), was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. ...

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John Edward Taylor, the son of John Taylor, a tutor at the Daventry Academy, was born at Ilminster, Somerset on 11th September, 1791.
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Edward Taylor was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1642 to Nonconformist parents of modest circumstances.
Taylor's education had left him with a lasting passion for books, and his library was a distinguished one, though many of the books were his own handwritten copies of volumes he could not afford to purchase in printed form.
Taylor's work is not easily categorized because his poetic experiments are so varied, employing forms ranging from common meter to heroic couplets and imagery ranging from the traditionally typological to the metaphysical.
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