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 work and of No. 8 was published by the Rev. Caleb Sprague Henry at New York in 1847. 10. ‘Chapters on Coronations,’ 1838, signed ‘T.’ 11. ‘Illustrations of the Bible, from the Monuments of Egypt,’ 1838; partly appeared in the ‘Athenæum.’ 12. ‘Naturall History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilised State,’ 1840, 2 vols.; New York, 1841, 2 vols.; dedicated to Archbishop Whately, who had ‘suggested, encouraged, and to a great degree directed it.’ 13. ‘The Bishop: a Series of Letters to a newly created Prelate’ (anon.), 1841; often quoted by Whately. 14. ‘Account of the Electro-magnet Engine,’ 1841. 15. ‘Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire: Letters to the Archbishop of Dublin,’ 1842; 2d edit. 1842. 16. ‘An Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Lancaster,’ 1842; Taylor wrote several portions of this volume. 17. ‘Romantic Biography of the Age of Elizabeth,’ 1842, 2 vols.; reprinted at Philadelphia. 18. ‘Popular History of British India,’ 1842; 2nd and 3rd edits. (1851 and 1857) as ‘Ancient and Modern India,’ revised and continued by P. J. MacKenna. 19. ‘Revolutions, Insurrections, and Conspiracies of Europe,’ 1843, 2 vols.; dedicated to Whately. 20. ‘Handbook of Silk, Cotton, and Woollen Manufactures,’ 1843. 21. ‘Factories and the Factory System,’ 1844. 22. ‘History of Christianity to its Legal Establishment in the Roman Empire,’ 1844; undertaken at suggestion of Charles Dickinson, D.D., bishop of Meath, and revised by him ‘in all but the last few pages.’ 23. ‘Modern British Plutarch,’ 1846; the preface alludes to the death of his child. 24. ‘National Portrait Gallery’ [1846–8], 4 vols. 25. ‘Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel’ [1846–8], 3 vols.; a supplementary volume to Peel's death was afterwards written by Charles Mackay, LL.D. 26. ‘Notes of a Visit to the Model Schools in Dublin,’ 1847. 27. ‘Memoirs of the House of Orleans,’ 1849, 3 vols.; Lockhart says that Louis-Philippe was so irritated by the references to his career in this work that he talked of prosecuting the publisher; Taylor, adds Lockhart in his reckless style, was ‘cleverish—but a wild, unconscientious, ignorant, scrambling Paddy’ (, Lockhart, ii. 327–8). 28. ‘The World as it is,’ a new and comprehensive system of modern geography [1849–53], 3 vols.; the first two volumes were compiled by Taylor and Charles Mackay.

Taylor edited an edition of ‘Cicero de Officiis, Cato major, Lælius,’ &c., 1830; a ‘Greek-English Lexicon,’ translated from the ‘Greek-Latin Lexicon’ of John Dawson, 1831, new edit. 1861; ‘Memoirs of W. Sampson,’ written by himself, vol. xxxiii. of ‘Autobiographies,’ 1832; ‘Cabinet of Friendship,’ a tribute to the memory of the late John Aitken [q. v.]; ‘Ireland, Social, Political, and Religious,’ by Gustave de Beaumont, 1839; ‘Gulliver's Travels,’ by Dean Swift, 1840; ‘Bacon's Essays and Advancement of Learning,’ 1840; ‘Iliads of Homer,’ translated by George Chapman, 1843. He condensed and translated as ‘by a biblical student’ the ‘Travelling Sketches in Egypt and Sinai of Alexandre Dumas;’ united with Edward Smedley [q. v.] and two others in compiling for the ‘Encyclopædia Metropolitana’ a history of ‘The Occult Sciences,’ and supplied additional notes to Robbins's translation of Hengstenberg's ‘Egypt and the Books of Moses.’ J. W. Parker on his advice undertook the publication of J. S. Mill's ‘Logic.’

[Bentley's Miscellany, November 1849, pp. 498–503; Bain's J. S. Mill, p. 66; Dilke's Papers of a Critic, i. 31; Gent. Mag. 1850, i. 94–6; Athenæum, 1850, p. 60; Halkett and Laing's Anon. Lit. i. 238, 357, iii. 2063; information from Mr. R. W. Cooke-Taylor.] 

TAYLOR, WITTEWRONGE (1719?–1760), captain in the navy, born about 1719, entered the navy as a volunteer per order or king's letter-boy, on board the Kingston, about 1727, but the fact that he belonged in the next seventeen months to no fewer than seven ships seems to show that he was borne for time only without bodily presence. In 1734 he was borne on the books of the Blenheim, a harbour-ship, and his first seagoing experience would seem to have been in 1736 on board the Windsor. In her and afterwards in the Ipswich and Anglesea—in which last he was present at the abortive attack on Cartagena in April 1741—he served for about five years. He passed his examination on 3 Sept. 1741, being then, according to his certificate, more than twenty-two, and having been more than ten years at sea. Four days afterwards he was promoted to be lieutenant of the Duke on the home station. In 1743–4 he was a lieutenant of the St. George, from which he was taken by Vice-admiral Davers in October 1744 to go with him to the West Indies in the Cornwall, in the rating of midshipman extra. In August 1745 Davers gave him a commission as fifth lieutenant of the Cornwall (though the ship was only allowed four), and in November appointed him to command the Vainqueur tender. Eighteen months afterwards he was recalled to the Cornwall, in which he was present in the action off Havana on 1 Oct. 1748 [see ], and was afterwards promoted by Knowles to command