Catalogue description Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)

This record is held by Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch

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Title: Isaac Taylor (1787-1865)
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Held by: Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
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Eldest surviving son of Isaac Taylor (1759-1829), and brother of Ann and Jane above. Artist, author and theologian, and inventor. Trained by his father as an engraver but worked chiefly in his early life as a designer of book illustrations. Contributed reviews to the Eclectic Review; author of philosophical, theological and biographical works. Inventor of a beer-tap, and a machine for engraving copper plates. Married Elizabeth Medland in 1825 and settled at Stanford Rivers (Ess).

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