Background
He was born at Norwich on 18 May 1781, the second son of John Taylor.
He was born at Norwich on 18 May 1781, the second son of John Taylor.
He was educated in a day school in that town by the Review John Houghton. He was then apprenticed, on the recommendation of Sir James Edward Smith, to a printer named Davis, of Chancery Lane, London. He studied the classics, mediæval Latin and Italian poets, and modern languages.
He became joint editor of the Philosophical Magazine in 1822 and went of to publish the Annals of Natural History in 1838. He edited and published Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science from 1837 to 1852. In 1852 he was joined by the chemist, Doctor William Francis to form Taylor and Francis.
Taylor and his partners produced major works in natural history, as well as fine editions of the classics.
In 1807 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1810 was elected a secretary. In 1822 he joined Alexander Tilloch as editor of the Philosophical Magazine, subsequently the ‘London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine.’ He established the Annals of Natural History in 1838, with which the Magazine of Natural History was incorporated in 1841, and the two were carried on as the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
Foreign thirty-five years Taylor represented the ward of Farringdon Without on the council of the City of London. He took an active part in matters of education, and assisted in founding the City of London School and the corporation library, while he promoted the establishment of the London University (later University College, London).
In 1852 his health gave way, and he retired to Richmond, Surrey, where he died on 1 December 1858.
Mythology is the natural measure of the unenlightened mind. lieutenant contains the aspirings of the soul after higher objects, which are beyond its reach, and its efforts to realize the dim images faintly formed in the mind, as the man wandering in darkness strives to give shape to the objects indistinctly seen to connect them together.
Quotations: Mythology is the natural measure of the unenlightened mind. lieutenant contains the aspirings of the soul after higher objects, which are beyond its reach, and its efforts to realize the dim images faintly formed in the mind, as the man wandering in darkness strives to give shape to the objects indistinctly seen to connect them together.
He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Astronomical and Philological societies, and was an original member of the British Association.