Background
Taylor was the son of Richard Taylor, counsellor at law, of Grymsbury, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Boteler daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire.
Taylor was the son of Richard Taylor, counsellor at law, of Grymsbury, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Boteler daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire.
He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was baptised on 20 March 1620. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 17 June 1636 aged 16 was a student of Lincoln’s Inn in 1637.
He succeeded to a share in his father"s estate at Clapham, Bedfordshire in 1641.
He served in the Royalist army in the Civil War under Sir Ralph Hopton without apparently any military rank. His share of the Clapham estate was sequestreated and in 1647 he was fined £450 for delinquency.
In 1655 was assessed at £90 for decimation. At the Restoration it was written that he had "continued faithful in the late war to the surrender of Oxford, and hath been several times since imprisoned for his fidelity to your Majesty".
He was one of those proposed for the order of Knight of the Royal Oak with an estate of £1,000 a year.
Taylor was a Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire from July 1660, and Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire and commissioner for assessment for Bedfordshire from August 1660, holding these positions until his death. He was a Justice of the Peace for Bedford in September 1660. There was a double return, but Taylor’s election was not affected.
He was Justice of the Peace for Bedford in 1661 and became commissioner for assessment Bedford in 1661.
He was Justice of the Peace for Bedford again in 1662 and also commissioner for loyal and indigent officers for Bedfordshire. Taylor died at the age of 47 and was buried at Clapham.
Cavalier Parliament]
In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bedford in the Cavalier Parliament.
