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See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
TAYLOR, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876) , Anglo-See also:Indian See also:administrator and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool on the 25th of See also:September 18o8.- At the See also:age of fifteen he was sent out to See also:India to become a clerk to a Bombay See also:merchant. On his arrival the See also:house was in See also:financial difficulties, and he was glad to accept In 1824 a See also:commission in the service of his See also:highness the See also:nizam, to which service he remained devotedly attached throughout his See also:long career. He was speedily transferred from military See also:duty to a See also:civil See also:appointment, and in this capacity he acquired a knowledge of the See also:languages and the See also:people of See also:Southern Indiawhich has seldom been equalled. He studied the See also:laws, the See also:geology, the antiquities of the See also:country; he was alternately See also:judge, engineer, artist and See also:man of letters, for on his return to See also:England in 1840 on furlough he published the first of his Indian novels, Confesssions of a Thug, in which he reproduced, with singular vivacity and truth, the scenes which he had heard described by the See also:chief actors in them. This See also:book was followed by a See also:series of tales, Tippoo Sultaun (184o), See also:Tara (1863), See also:Ralph Darnell (1865), Seeta (1872), and A See also:Noble See also:Queen (1878), all illustrating periods of Indian See also:history and society, and giving a prominent See also:place to the native See also:character, for which and the native institutions and traditions he had a See also:great regard and respect. Returning to India he acted from 184o to 1853 as correspondent for The Times. He also wrote a Student's See also:Manual of the History of India (187o). About 185o, Meadows Taylor was appointed by the nizam's See also:government to administer, during a long minority, the principality of the See also:young See also:raja of Shorapore. He succeeded without any See also:European assistance in raising this small territory to a high degree of prosperity, and such was his See also:influence with the natives that on the occurrence of the See also:mutiny in See also:Bengal he held his ground without military support. See also:Colonel Taylor, whose merits were now recognized and acknowledged by the See also:British government of India—although he had never been in the service of the See also:Company—was subsequently appointed to the See also:deputy See also:commissioner-See also:ship of the Western ceded districts, where he succeeded in establishing a new See also:assessment of revenues at once more equitable to the cultivators and more productive to the government. By indefatigable perseverance he had raised himself from the See also:condition of a See also:half-educated lad, without patronage, and without even the support of the Company, to the successful government of some of the most important provinces of India, 36,000 square See also:miles in extent and with a See also:population of more than five millions. On his retirement from service in 186o he was, made a C.S.I. and given a See also:pension. Taylor died at See also:Mentone on the 13th of May 1876.
See Meadows Taylor's The See also:Story of My See also:Life (1877).
End of Article: TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
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