Author: Taylor, George
Biography:
TAYLOR, George (fl 1805-21)
His title-pages proudly announce his name and his employer: he was "of the Bank of England" and the subscription lists for his two substantial volumes, The Spirit of the Mountains (1806) and The Mental Claims of the Sexes (1821), contain the names of numerous colleagues in the Bank, along with other Londoners. He also contributed poems to magazines and miscellanies. Three shorter elegies on important public figures--Nelson, Fox, and Princess Charlotte--were separately published. His name is so common that no certain records of birth, marriage, or death have been discovered, but he is probably the George Taylor, "clerk in the Bank of England," who testified for the prosecution in a case of forgery in 1829. (Spenserians; Watt; Morning Herald 30 July 1829) HJ