John Edward Taylor (1791 - 1844)

Born 11 Sep 1791 in Ilminster, Somerset, England

Husband of Sophia Russell (Scott) Taylor — married 4 May 1824 in St Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Husband of Harriet Acland (Boyce) Taylor — married 1 Jun 1836 (to 6 Jan 1844) in Exeter, Devon, England

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1844 at age 52 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Biography

John Taylor is Notable.

John is best known as the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper, which was renamed The Guardian in 1959. When Taylor established the paper, he raised loans totalling £1,100 from 11 backers – equivalent to £94,500 in present-day value. ^[1]

The names of these 11 individuals were Edward Baxter, William Duckworth, Sir George Philips (1766-1847), Robert Philips, Richard Potter, Sir Thomas Potter, Samuel Pullein, Thomas BW Sanderson, George William Wood, Thomas Johnson and Thomas Wilkins.

John was born in 1791. His birth at Ilminster, Somerset was recorded by Bristol Quaker Monthly Meeting.^[2]

He married his cousin Sophia Russell Scott in 1824.

Slavery

John Edward Taylor had links to slavery through his partnerships in the cotton manufacturing firm Oakden & Taylor and the cotton merchant company Shuttleworth, Taylor & Co. ^[1]

John passed away in 1844 and was buried in Rusholme Road Cemetery. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} https://www.theguardian.com/the-scott-trust/ng-interactive/2023/mar/28/the-scott-trust-legacies-of-enslavement-report
2. ↑ England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Births 1578-1841, BRISTOL AND SOMERSET: Monthly Meeting of Bristol: Births, RG6/305, FindMyPast and linked image
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #197238603, database and images, accessed 27 May 2020, memorial page for John Edward Taylor (11 Sep 1791–6 Jan 1844), citing Rusholme Road Cemetery, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England; Maintained by mcpjm (contributor 49327049).

• Ancestry Record 7097 #24503, England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 [database on-line]; Piece 0935: Quarterly Meeting of Bristol and Somerset: Birth notes (1775-1794); John Edward Taylor, b. 11 Sep 1791 at Ilminster, Somersetshire, F=John Taylor M=Mary.

See also:

• Taylor, Geoffrey, 'Taylor, John Edward (1791–1844)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published 23 Sep 2004, accessed 27 May 2020.
• John Edward TaylorWikipedia: , last edited 17 May 2020.
• Wikidata: Item Q6231355