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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, TOM (1817-1880) , See also:English dramatist and editor of See also:Punch, was See also:born at See also:Bishop Wearmouth, near See also:Sunderland, on the 19th of See also:October 1817. After attending school there, and studying for two sessions at See also:Glasgow University, he in 1837 entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became a See also:fellow. Subsequently he held for two years the professorship of English literature at University College, See also:London. He was called to the See also:bar (See also:Middle See also:Temple) in See also:November 1846, and went on the See also:northern See also:circuit until, in 185o, he became assistant secretary of the See also:Board of See also:Health. On the reconstruction of the Board in 1854 he was made secretary, and on its abolition his services were transferred to a See also:department of the See also:Home See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, retiring on a See also:pension in 1876. In his very See also:early years Tom Taylor had shown a predilection for the See also:drama, and had been in the See also:habit of performing dramatic pieces with a number of See also:children in a See also:loft over a See also:brewer's See also:stable. Four burlesques of his were produced at the See also:Lyceum in 1844. He made his first See also:hit with To Parents and Guardians, brought out at the Lyceum in 1845. He also wrote some burlesques in See also:conjunction with See also:Albert See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith and See also:Charles Kenny, and collaborated with Charles See also:Reade in Masks and Faces (1852). Before the See also:close of his See also:life his dramatic pieces numbered over See also:loo, amongst the best known of which are Our See also:American See also:Cousin (1858), produced by Laura See also:Keene in New See also:York, in which See also:Sothern created the See also:part of See also:Lord Dundreary; Still See also:Waters Run Deep (1855); Victims (1857); the Contested See also:Election (1859); the Overland Route (186o); the See also:Ticket of Leave See also:Man (1863); See also:Anne See also:Boleyn (1875); and See also:Joan of Arc (1871). He was perhaps the most popular dramatist of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; but, if his See also:chief concern was the construction of a popular acting See also:play, the characters in his dramas are clearly and consistently See also:drawn, and the See also:dialogue is natural, See also:nervous and pointed. In his See also:blank See also:verse See also:historical dramas, Anne Boleyn and Joan of Arc, he was not so successful.
Taylor had begun his career as a journalist when he first came to London. He very soon became connected with the See also:Morning See also:Chronicle and the Daily See also:News, for which he wrote leaders. He was on the See also:staff of Punch until 1874, when he succeeded See also:Shirley See also:Brooks as editor. He occasionally appeared with success in See also:amateur theatricals, more especially in the See also:character of See also:Adam in As You Like It and of See also:Jasper in A See also:Sheep in See also:Wolf's Clothing. He had some See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for See also:painting, and for many years was See also:art critic to The Times and the Graphic. He died at See also:Lavender Sweep, See also:Wandsworth, on the 12th of See also:July 1880.
Apart from the drama, Tom Taylor's chief contributions to literature are his See also:biographies of painters, viz., Autobiography of B. R. See also:Haydon (1853) ; Autobiography and See also:Correspondence of C. R. See also:Leslie, R.A. (186o); and Life and Times of See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds(1865), which had been See also:left in a very incomplete See also:state by Leslie. His Historical Dramas appeared in one See also:volume in 1877. He also edited, with a memorial See also:preface, See also:Pen Sketches from a Vanished See also:Hand, selected from Papers of the See also:late See also:Mortimer See also:Collins.
End of Article: TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
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