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ISAAC See also: English philologist, eldest son of the preceding, was See also: born at Stanford See also: Rivers, 2nd May 1829
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He was educated at Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, and took the mathematical tripos in 1853
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His interests, however, were linguistic rather than mathematical, and his earliest publication was a See also: translation from the See also: German of W
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Becker's Charicles
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Though of See also: Nonconformist stock, Isaac See also: Taylor joined the
See also: Church of
See also: England, and in 1857 was ordained to a country curacy
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In 186o he published The See also: Liturgy of the Dissenters, an See also: appeal for the revision of the See also: Book of See also: Common Prayer " on See also: Protestant lines," " as expedient for the material interests of the Church, and as an See also: act of plain See also: justice to the Dissenters." His studies in See also: local etymology See also: bore fruit in Words and Places in Etymological See also: Illustration of See also: History, See also: Ethnology and Geography (1864)
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Between 1865 and 1869, when he was in See also: charge of a Bethnal See also: Green parish, his philological studies were laid aside, and he published only The See also: Burden of the Poor and The See also: Family See also: Pen, a record of the See also: literary See also: work of his own family, the Taylors of Ongar
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In 1869 he became incumbent of a church at See also: Twickenham, and used his See also: comparative leisure to produce his See also: Etruscan Researches (1874); in which he contended for the Ugrian origin of the Etruscan language
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In 1875 he was presented to the rectory of Settrington, See also: Yorkshire, and began his systematic researches into the origin of the See also: alphabet
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His Greeks and Goths; a Study on the Runes (1879), in which he suggested that the runes were of See also: Greek origin, led to a See also: good See also: deal of controversy
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His most important work is The Alphabet, an Account of the Origin and Development of Letters (1883; new and revisededition 1899)
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Taylor points out that alphabetical changes are the result of See also: evolution taking place in accordance with fixed See also: laws
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" Epigraphy and palaeography may claim, no less than See also: philology or See also: biology, to be ranked among the inductive sciences." He was largely indebted to the See also: Egyptian researches of See also: Rouge, which it has since become necessary to reconsider in the See also: light of discoveries in Crete
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In 1885 Taylor became See also: canon of See also: York, and two years later dean
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His paper on the Origin of the See also: Aryans, read at the See also: British Association in 1887, was after-wards See also: expanded into a book
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In the following winter he visited See also: Egypt, and his letters from there, collected under the title Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook, aroused considerable controversy from the extremely favourable view he took of the See also: Mahommedan See also: religion
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For the last few years of his See also: life Dean Taylor suffered from See also: ill See also: health, and was laid aside from active work for some See also: time before his See also: death in See also: October 1901
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