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SIR HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:TAYLOR (1800-1886)  , See also:English poet and See also:political See also:official, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:October 1800, at See also:Bishop-Middleham, See also:Durham, where his ancestors had been small landowners for some generations . His See also:mother died while he was yet an See also:infant, and he was chiefly educated by his See also:father, a See also:man of studious tastes, who, finding him less See also:quick than his two See also:elder See also:brothers, allowed him to enter the See also:navy as a See also:midshipman . Finding the See also:life uncongenial, he only remained eight months at See also:sea, and after obtaining his See also:discharge was appointed to a clerkship in the storekeeper's See also:office . He had scarcely entered upon his duties when he was attacked by typhus See also:fever, which carried off both his brothers, then living with him in See also:London . In three or four years more his office was abolished while he was on See also:duty in the See also:West Indies . On his return he found his father happily married to a See also:lady whose See also:interest and sympathy proved of priceless value to him . Through her little by the egotism pardonable in a poet and the garrulity natural to a See also:veteran, is in the See also:main a pleasing and faithful picture of an aspiring youth, an active maturity, and a happy and honoured old See also:age . See also:Taylor's See also:Artevelde cannot fail to impress those who read it as the See also:work of a poet of considerable distinction; but, perhaps for the very See also:reason that he was so prominent as a See also:state official, he has not been accepted by the See also:world as more than a very accomplished man of letters . His lyrical work is in See also:general laboriously artificial, but he produced two well-known songs—" Quoth See also:tongue of neither maid nor wife " and " If I had the wings of a See also:dove." Taylor's Autobiography (2 vols . 1885) should be supplemented by his See also:Correspondence (1888), edited by See also:Edward See also:Dowden . His See also:Works were collected in five volumes in 1877-78 .

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