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- John edward taylor obituary
- John Edward Taylor was an English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library, who was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821.
- John Edward Taylor, the son of John Taylor, a tutor at the Daventry Academy, was born at Ilminster, Somerset on 11th September, 1791.
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John Edward Taylor
British journalist and publisher (1791–1844)
Not to be confused with John Edward Taylor (bishop).
John Edward Taylor | |
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| Born | (1791-09-11)11 September 1791 Ilminster, Somerset, England |
| Died | 6 January 1844(1844-01-06) (aged 52) |
| Occupation(s) | Editor and publisher Business tycoon |
| Family | Mary Scott (mother), Stanley Jevons (son-in-law) |
John Edward Taylor (11 September 1791 – 6 January 1844) was an English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library,[1] who was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821. It was renamed in 1959 The Guardian.
Personal life
Taylor was born at Ilminster, Somerset, England, to Mary Scott, the poet, and John Taylor, a Unitarian minister who moved after his wife's death to Manchester with his son to run a school there. John Edward was educated at his father's school and at Daventry Academy. He was apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer in Manchester and later became a successful merchant; Taylor "derived much of his wealth from Manchest
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Taylor, John Edward
TAYLOR, JOHN EDWARD (1791–1844), founder of the ‘Manchester Guardian,’ was born at Ilminster, Somerset, on 11 Sept. 1791. His father, John Taylor, had, after acting as classical tutor in Daventry academy, become a minister of the English presbyterian church, but at Ilminster adopted the tenets of the Society of Friends, in connection with which he afterwards took up schoolwork at Bristol and Manchester. His wife, Mary Scott, was an intimate friend and correspondent of Anna Seward [q. v.] She printed a poetical review of eminent female writers, entitled ‘The Female Advocate’ (1774), and intended to supplement ‘The Feminead’ of John Duncombe [q. v.] She also wrote an epic, ‘The Messiah,’ in two books (1788), and other verse (Miss Seward, Letters, 1811, i. 133, 185, 294, ii. 88, 118, 228, 344, iii. 93, 310).
Their son, John Edward, was educated at his father's classical school in Manchester. He was apprenticed to a Manchester cotton manufacturer named Shuttleworth, who took him into partnership before the
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John Edward Taylor facts for kids
Not to be confused with John Edward Taylor (bishop).
Quick facts for kids John Edward Taylor | |
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| Born | (1791-09-11)11 September 1791 Ilminster, Somerset, England |
| Died | 6 January 1844(1844-01-06) (aged 52) |
| Occupation | Editor and publisher Business tycoon |
| Family | Mary Scott (mother), Stanley Jevons (son-in-law) |
John Edward Taylor (11 September 1791 – 6 January 1844) was an English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library, who was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821, which was renamed in 1959 The Guardian.
Personal life
Taylor was born at Ilminster, Somerset, England, to Mary Scott, the poet, and John Taylor, a Unitarian minister who moved after his wife's death to Manchester with his son to run a school there. John Edward was educated at his father's school and at Daventry Academy. He was apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer in Manchester and later became a successful merchant.
His children by his first wife and first cousin Sophia Russell Taylor (née Scott) included
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