Tom Taylor
1817–80
Playwright, classics scholar, lawyer, and public servant. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1842–4; professor of English, London University, 1845. Called to the bar, 1846. Assistant secretary to the Board of Health; later, assistant secretary to the sanitary department of the Local Government Board, 1850–54; secretary, 1854–71. Editor of Punch, 1874–80. In thirty-five years, more than seventy of his plays appeared in principal London theatres.
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DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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