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MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR (1757–1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 472 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL ANGELO TAYLOR (1757–1834)  ,
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English politician, was a son of
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Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788), the architect, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, becoming a
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barrister at Lincoln's
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Inn in 1774 . He entered the House of
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Commons as member for Poole in 1784, and, with the exception of the short period from 1802 to 18o6, remained a member of parliament- until 1834, although not as the representative of the same constituency . In parliament Taylor showed himself anxious to curtail the delays in the Court of
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Chancery, and to improve the
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lighting and paving of the
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London streets; and he was largely instrumental in bringing about the abolition of the pillory . At first a supporter of the younger Pitt, he soon veered round to the side of Fox and the Whigs, favoured
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parliamentary reform, and was a
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personal friend of the regent, after-wards George IV . He was on the committee which managed the impeachment of Warren Hastings; was made a privy councillor in 1831; and died in London on the 16th of
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July 1834 . Taylor is chiefly known in connexion with the Metropolitan Paving Act of 1817, which is still referred to as " Michael AngeloTaylor's Act." Often called " Chicken Taylor " because of his reference to himself as a " mere chicken in the law," he is described by Sir Spencer Walpole as " a pompous barrister, with a little
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body and a loud voice." Taylor's
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father, Sir Robert, was the founder of the Taylorian Institution at Oxford .

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