Thomas Taylor
1769/70–1841
Surgeon-apothecary. Trained in London with the surgeon Henry Cline. Eloped with Lady Lucy Rachael Stanhope (1780–1814), youngest daughter of Charles Stanhope, third Earl Stanhope, in 1796. Appointed comptroller of the Customs by William Pitt the younger, his wife’s uncle. Father of John Pitt Taylor.
Sources
B. B. Cooper 1843, 1: 181, 182, 186
England, select marriages, 1538–1973 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)
ODNB s.v. Stanhope, Charles, third Earl Stanhope
Surrey, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)
UK and Ireland, Find a grave index, 1300s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 November 2020)
Bibliography
Cooper, Bransby Blake. 1843. The life of Sir Astley Cooper, bart.: interspersed with sketches from his note-books of distinguished contemporary characters. 2 vols. London: J. W. Parker.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
