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TOM See also: English dramatist and editor of See also: Punch, was See also: born at See also: Bishop Wearmouth, near See also: Sunderland, on the 19th of See also: October 1817
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After attending school there, and studying for two sessions at See also: Glasgow University, he in 1837 entered Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, of which he became a See also: fellow
.
Subsequently he held for two years the professorship of English literature at University College, See also: London
.
He was called to the See also: bar (See also: Middle See also: Temple) in See also: November 1846, and went on the See also: northern circuit until, in 185o, he became assistant secretary of the See also: Board of See also: Health
.
On the reconstruction of the Board in 1854 he was made secretary, and on its abolition his services were transferred to a department of the Home Office, retiring on a pension in 1876
.
In his very early years Tom See also: Taylor had shown a predilection for the drama, and had been in the habit of performing dramatic pieces with a number of
See also: children in a loft over a See also: brewer's See also: stable
.
Four burlesques of his were produced at the See also: Lyceum in 1844
.
He made his first See also: hit with To Parents and Guardians, brought out at the Lyceum in 1845
.
He also wrote some burlesques in conjunction with See also: Albert See also: Smith and
See also: Charles Kenny, and collaborated with Charles
See also: Reade in Masks and Faces (1852)
.
Before the close of his See also: life his dramatic pieces numbered over See also: loo, amongst the best known of which are Our See also: American See also: Cousin (1858), produced by Laura Keene in New See also: York, in which See also: Sothern created the See also: part of See also: Lord Dundreary; Still See also: Waters Run Deep (1855); Victims (1857); the Contested Election (1859); the Overland Route (186o); the Ticket of Leave See also: Man (1863); See also: Anne Boleyn (1875); and See also: Joan of Arc (1871)
.
He was perhaps the most popular dramatist of his See also: time; but, if his chief concern was the construction of a popular acting See also: play, the characters in his dramas are clearly and consistently See also: drawn, and the See also: dialogue is natural, See also: nervous and pointed
.
In his See also: blank verse See also: historical dramas, Anne Boleyn and Joan of Arc, he was not so successful
.
Taylor had begun his career as a journalist when he first came to London . He very soon became connected with the See also: Morning See also: Chronicle and the Daily See also: News, for which he wrote leaders
.
He was on the staff of Punch until 1874, when he succeeded See also: Shirley Brooks as editor
.
He occasionally appeared with success in See also: amateur theatricals, more especially in the character of See also: Adam in As You Like It and of See also: Jasper in A See also: Sheep in See also: Wolf's Clothing
.
He had some talent for See also: painting, and for many years was See also: art critic to The Times and the Graphic
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He died at See also: Lavender Sweep, See also: Wandsworth, on the 12th of See also: July 1880
.
Apart from the drama, Tom Taylor's chief contributions to literature are his See also: biographies of painters, viz., Autobiography of B
.
R
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See also: Haydon (1853) ; Autobiography and See also: Correspondence of C
.
R
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See also: Leslie, R.A
.
(186o); and Life and Times of See also: Sir See also: Joshua See also: Reynolds(1865), which had been See also: left in a very incomplete See also: state by Leslie
.
His Historical Dramas appeared in one See also: volume in 1877
.
He also edited, with a memorial preface, See also: Pen Sketches from a Vanished See also: Hand, selected from Papers of the See also: late See also: Mortimer See also: Collins
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