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 TAYLOR 595 heaves of Rhyme" (1874); and "Songs of Yesterday " (1875). TAYLOR, Thomas, an English scholar, sur- named the " Platonist," born in London, May 15, 1758, died at Walworth, Nov. 1, 1835. He studied the classics, mathematics, and chern- try, and became clerk in a banking house. He issued, in the course of 40 years, trausla- ons of part or the whole of the hymns of pheus, the works of Plato (5 vols. 4to), oclus, Julian, Pausanias, Plotinus, Apuleius, istotle, Maximus Tyrius, Demophilus, lam- lichus, Hierocles, Porphyry, Celsus, Ocellus ucanus, and Olympiodorus, and the " Chal- ean Oracles." He also published works on geometry and arithmetic, on the Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries (new ed., with intro- uction and notes by Alexander Wilder, M. D., 875), on "The Rights of Brutes" (in ridicule f Paine's "-Rights of Man"), a new edition f Hedericus's "Greek Lexicon" with addi- 'ons, " History of the Restoration of the Pla- nic Theology," "Miscellanies in Prose and erse," &c. His works amounted to 55 vols. TAYLOR, Tom, an English author, born in Sunderland in 1817. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, and became a fellow. He was for two years professor of English litera- ture in University college, London, was called to the bar in 1845, and in 1850 became assis- tant secretary to the board of health, and in 1854 secretary. Since 1858 he has been secre- tary to the local government act office. He is the author of more than 100 dramatic pieces, among the most successful of which are " Still Waters Run Deep," "The Unequal Match," " The Overland Route," " The Contested Elec- tion," " Our American Cousin," " The Ticket- of -Leave Man," and " 'Twixt Axe and Crown." In conjunction with Charles Reade he has written "Masks and Faces" and other plays. He has also published a "Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon " (3 vols. 8vo, 1853) ; an edi- torial preface and continuation of the "Auto- biographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie " (2 vols. 8vo, 1860) ; a "Handbook to the Pictures ' the International Exhibition of 1862 " (8vo, 862); "Birket Foster's Pictures of English ,ndscape, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, ith Pictures in Words by Mr. Tom Taylor " 4to, 1862) ; " Ballads and Songs of Brittany," anslated from the French of Villemarque to, 1865) ; and, in conjunction with C. W. 'ranks, a " Catalogue of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (8vo, 1869). TAYLOR, William Cooke, an Irish author, born in Youghal, April 16, 1800, died in Dublin, Sept. 12, 1849. He was educated at the uni- versity of Dublin, and went to London, where he resided till two years before his death. His chief works are : " Historical Miscellany" (12mo, 1829) ; " History of France and Nor- mandy" (1830); "History of the Civil Wars in Ireland " (2 vols., 1831) ; " History of Mo- hammedanism and its Sects " (1834) ; " History of Popery" (1837); "The Bible Illustrated from Egyptian Monuments" (1838); "Manual of Modern History " (8vo, 1838) ; " Manual of Ancient History" (1839); "Natural History of Society" (2 vols., 1840); Romantic Biog- raphy of the Age of Elizabeth " (2 vols., 1842) ; "_ History of British India" (1842); "Revolu- tions', Insurrections, and Conspiracies of Eu- rope" (2 vols., 1843); and "Memoirs of the House of Orleans" (3 vols., 1849). He also edited Bacon's essays and Chapman's transla- tion of Homer. In 1846 he was employed by the British government to inquire into the system of education on the continent. TAYLOR, William Mackergo, an American cler- gyman, born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scot- land, Oct. 23, 1829. He graduated at the uni- versity of Glasgow in 1849, studied theology in Edinburgh, was licensed to preach in 1852, and in 1853 was ordained pastor of the Uni- ted Presbyterian church at Kilmaurs. In 1855 he accepted a call to the United Presbyterian church at Derby road (Bootle), near Liver- pool, and remained there for 16 years. In 1871 he visited the United States as a dele- gate of the United Presbyterian church to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at Chicago. In 1872 he became pastor of the Broadway Taberna- cle church in New York. He has published "Life Truths" (London, 1862); "The Mira- cles: Helps to Faith, not Hindrances" (Edin- burgh, 1865), written as a reply to Renan's "Life of Jesus;" "The Lost Found and Wan- derer Welcomed" (1870); "David, King of Israel " (New York, 1874) ; and " Elijah the Prophet "(1876), TAYLOR, Zachary, twelfth president of the United States, born in Orange co., Va., Sept. 24, 1784, died in Washington, D. C., July 9, 1850. His father, Col. Richard Taylor, served throughout the revolutionary war, and re- moved in 1785 from Virginia to Kentucky, where he had an extensive plantation in the neighborhood of Louisville. Zachary was en- gaged till his 24th year on the plantation. His brother Hancock, a lieutenant in the United States army, died in 1808, and the vacant com- mission was assigned to Zachary. He was made a captain in November, 1810, and after the declaration of war against Great Britain was placed in command of Fort Harrison, a blockhouse and stockade on the Wabash river, about 50 m. above Vincennes. This was the first object of attack by the Indians, a large force of whom invested it in September, 1812, and after professions of peace made a furious night assault and set fire to the lower buildings of the fort. Taylor had but 50 men, of whom two thirds were" ill; but after a sharp conflict of several hours he extinguished the flames and repulsed the assailants with severe loss. For his conduct on this occasion he received from President Madison the rank of major by brevet, the first instance in the service of this species of promotion. A few months later he took part in a successful expedition led by Gen. Hopkins