the remainder of her life. Parish work and correspondence now occupied a great portion of her time, while the waning state of her health precluded her from accepting the advantageous offers made to her by publishers. In 1823, during the summer, she made a pilgrimage to Olney, from which, intellectually speaking, Ongar may be regarded as a colony. From the autumn of 1823 she declined rapidly, and she died on 13 April 1824. She was buried in the ground attached to the chapel at Ongar, where a simple monument marks her grave. A memoir, in which her fine qualities of heart and head are delineated with a marvellous delicacy, was written shortly after her death by her brother Isaac, to whom she was specially attached (Memoirs and Correspondence of Jane Taylor, London, 1825, 2 vols. 12mo).
A silhouette of Jane Taylor is prefixed to the ‘Memoirs’ (ed. 1826). A portrait in oils of Jane with her sister in the garden at Lavenham (painted by their father) is preserved at Marden Ash. Portraits were exhibited in the ‘Gallery of Distinguished Englishwomen’ at Chicago in 1893, their ‘Original Poems’ being truly stated in the catalogue to mark an era in children's books.
[Taylor's Family Pen—Memorials of the Taylor Family of Ongar, 1867 (the first volume embodies the revised edition of the Memoir of Jane by her brother, and the second a selection of some of her best fragments in prose, such as ‘The Discontented Pendulum’); Mrs. H. C. Knight's Life of Jane Taylor; Walford's Four Biographies; Taylor's Personal Recollections; Quiver, October 1880; Macmillan's Mag. July 1869; Chatelain's Poésie Anglais, i. 322; Field's Child and its Book; Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 19167, f. 136; Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology.]
TAYLOR, JEFFERYS (1792–1853), writer for children, youngest son of Isaac Taylor (1759–1829) [q. v.], by his wife, Ann Martin, was born at Lavenham in Suffolk on 30 Oct. 1792. He was educated under his father as an engraver, and apprenticed at Lavenham. He possessed considerable inventive faculty, and made a ruling machine for engravers, the sale of which afforded him considerable profit. But he is chiefly remarkable for his writings for children, which are very varied in character, sometimes distinguished by much humour and fancy, but sometimes tending to extravagance. In later life he lived at Pilgrim's Hatch, near Brentwood in Essex. He died at Broadstairs on 8 Oct. 1853.
On 20 June 1826 he married Sophia Mabbs of Mount Nessing, Essex, by whom he had a son Edward, who died young.
Taylor was the author of:
- ‘Harry's Holiday,’ London, 1818, 12mo; 3rd edit. 1822.
- ‘Æsop in Rhyme,’ London, 1820, 12mo; 4th edit. 1824.
- ‘Ralph Richards the Miser,’ London, 1821, 12mo.
- ‘Tales and Dialogues in Prose and Verse,’ London, 1822, 12mo.
- ‘The Little Historians,’ London, 1824, 12mo.
- ‘Parlour Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England,’ London, 1825, 12mo.
- ‘Old English Sayings newly expounded,’ London, 1827, 12mo.
- ‘The Barn and the Steeple,’ London, 1828.
- ‘The Forest,’ London, 1831, 16mo; 3rd edit. 1835.
- ‘A Month in London,’ London, 1832, 12mo.
- ‘A New Description of the Earth,’ London 1832, 12mo.
- ‘The Farm,’ London, 1832, 16mo; 2nd edit. 1834.
- ‘The Young Islanders,’ London, 1842, 8vo.
- ‘Cottage Traditions,’ London, 1842, 8vo.
- ‘Incidents of the Apostolic Age in Britain,’ London, 1844, 8vo.
- ‘A Glance at the Globe,’ London, 1848, 8vo.
- ‘The Family Bible newly opened,’ London, 1853, 8vo.
[Information kindly supplied by Mr. Henry Taylor; Canon Taylor's Taylors of Ongar; Mrs. Gilbert's Autobiography, 1878, pp. 32, 47, 261, 341, 420; Gent. Mag. 1853, ii. 424; Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 19168, f. 197.]
TAYLOR, JEREMY, D.D. (1613–1667), bishop of Down and Connor, and administrator of Dromore, third son of Nathaniel Taylor, barber, by his wife Mary (Dean), was born at Cambridge, and baptised in Trinity Church on 15 Aug. 1613. He was a descendant, direct or collateral, of Rowland Taylor [q. v.] the martyr, but the exact line of descent has never been proved. His father and grandfather (Edmond, d. 1607) were churchwardens of Trinity parish. He was probably born at a house known as the Black Bear, opposite Trinity Church; the traditional birthplace is the Wrestlers' Inn in Petty Cury, parish of St. Andrew-the-Great, to which his father removed after 1621. Taylor affirms that he was ‘solely grounded in grammar and mathematics’ by his father. On 18 Aug. 1626 he was admitted a sizar at Gonville and Caius College; his tutor was Thomas Bachcroft, afterwards master of the college. The admission book describes him as ‘anno ætatis suæ 15,’ and states that he had been a pupil at the newly founded Perse grammar school under Thomas Lovering ‘per decennium.’ Neither statement can be exact. It has been suggested that he was baptised a year after his birth; if so, his elder brother Nathaniel (baptised 8 Dec. 1611) was also baptised late. The Perse school [see Perse, Stephen]
