Background
Taylor was born at Hinton, Suffolk, or at Banham, Norfolk, on 18 January 1789. He was the third son of Samuel Taylor, a wealthy farmer.
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Taylor was born at Hinton, Suffolk, or at Banham, Norfolk, on 18 January 1789. He was the third son of Samuel Taylor, a wealthy farmer.
His early education at Halesworth, Suffolk, was extensive in higher mathematics and mapping. About 1805 he was articled to a land surveyor in Gloucestershire, with whom he remained until about 1811. His first instructor, William Smith, the "Father of British Geology, " later became his close friend.
A Norman ruin on his father's estate interested Taylor in antiquities, and in 1821 he published his first volume, Index Monasticus, or the Abbeys and Other Monasteries . Formerly Established in the Diocese of Norwich and the Ancient Kingdom of East Anglia. Later (1830) he brought out an index to the new edition of Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum; A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries in England and Wales. These works brought him high commendation from such men as Sir Walter Scott, who expressed his admiration of the book in a letter to Taylor.
In the meantime his interest in geology had been growing. Between 1811 and 1813 he surveyed in various parts of the country, and at one time had charge of a department of the ordnance for Buckingham and Bedford. In the fall of 1826 he removed to London, where he was engaged on the ordnance survey of England. A year later he published On the Geology of East Norfolk (1827), which emphasized facts relating to successive stratification. Among his reports on mining properties was one on the British Iron Company of South Wales, and his plaster model of its mines, said to be the first ever made, earned the Isis Medal of the Society of Arts.
In July 1830 Taylor sailed with his wife, and daughters for the United States. British geologists and engineers later believed that, had he remained a little longer in England, he would have taken a leading part in railway development. In Pennsylvania he became engaged in a survey of the Blossburg coal region, and in the exploration of the coal and iron veins of the Dauphin & Susquehanna Coal Company. He was able, because of his intimate knowledge of theoretical geology, for the first time to relate the Old Red Sandstone underlying the coal fields of Pennsylvania to its true place, corresponding with its place in the series of European rocks. He later explored many mineral districts containing gold, silver, lead, copper, coal, asphaltum, and other materials, and ranged as far as the copper mines of Cuba, the gold fields of Panama, and the asphaltum of New Brunswick. His chief and monumental work, Statistics of Coal (1848), published in Philadelphia, drew extravagant praise from scientific journals of the day all over the world. He himself felt the results to be extremely uncertain because "this species of investigation savours too much of scrutiny into the private concerns of men".
He died in Philadelphia.
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He was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of London.
He married Emily Errington in 1820. They had four daughters.
