John Taylor

(1757-1832)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Taylor, John, 1757-1832 NRA: Taylor John (1757-1832) Newspaper Proprietor Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Taylor, John (1757-1832), writer and journal editor LBT ID: JoTaylo1832 VIAF ID: 59921591 LOC ID: n82153135	B/BAP: 1757-08-09 DIED: 1832-05
SOURCES: William Jerdan, Autobiography (1852-53); DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Poet and Tory journalist; editor of the Morning Post (1787), purchased the True Briton, editor and proprietor of The Sun (1813-25); author of Records of my Life (1832).
REFERENCES TO John Taylor: Lord Byron to John Taylor, 25 September 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n2 Robert Gray to William Jerdan, [1816] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tinal to William Jerdan, [1816] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Long to William Jerdan, [1816?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Gray to William Jerdan, [February 1816?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Gray to William Jerdan, [28 October 1816] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Gifford to William Jerdan, [1818?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1815 Found 1: ¶ n2 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 11: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 12 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 12: Periodical Press Found 1: ¶ 9 Ch. 20: The Sun Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 21: Sun Anecdotes Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 10 Ch. 6: Shreds & Patches Found 1: ¶ 4 Ch. 7: A Character Found 15: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ n1 Ch. 9: Ingratitude Found 4: ¶ 6 ¶ 12 ¶ 15 ¶ n1 Ch. 11: Canning Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 9 Ch. 12: Litigation Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 7 Ch. 13: The Sun Found 5: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 17 Ch. 15: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch 21: My Writings Found 1: ¶ 2 The Satirist. Found 1: ¶ 26 Ch. 6: Periodical Press Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 20 Chapter VI. Found 2: ¶ 125 ¶ 126 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 32 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXVI. Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 53